67ref, Thank you for this detailed explanation. If the county Official Having Jurisdiction has rechecked it, and seen it up close and personal, and...
67ref, I'm sorry about mis-addressing you previously. That was my first time back on this forum in several years, and I hadn't figured out the...
Yes, I am concerned about the wood under the hearty. Fire codes such as NFPA 211, or your local building code, IRC, BOCA, CABO, or whatever, all call...
If I were going to write him, I 'd recommend he recycle it. It is in the class of stoves EPA has been wanting abandoned. There is no way it is worth...
I am not familiar with the model of stove he named. We have mostly Buck-styled fireplace inserts around here. But cat stoves came on the market about...
I invented the tool that most of the chimney sweeps in America use to break tiles out of a chimney. It is basically a spinning hammer that breaks it...
Mountaineer, Sounds like you don't have nearly as bad a creosote buildup as you might if you choked that stove down a little bit. A stove with a 6"...
Oh me, Oh my! Now that I've gotten past page 1, I see the rest of the pictures. It looks really nice! You have a very pretty, efficient stove. It...
Mr. Fire Honor Society, Interesting string of pictures. Big job, big mess. Looks pretty good intermediately now that you have sheetrock back on and...
I'd recommend against doing what you ask about here. Your mid-fifties Heatilator steel firebox is, at best, a slightly less efficient machine...
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