Hello,
I have been lurking, reading, studying, and now down to just needing to ask. We had a 1970's wood burning fireplace with an interior chimney and metal firebox over cement block. Twenty some years ago we changed to a gas insert and are now ready to do what I wanted to do in the first place -hopefully put in a wood burning stove.
My first question is, with the below dimensions, if we can partially set one back in and have a top vent vs rear vent.
Height of opening is 30"
Width in front is 36"
The metal liner begins to angle back 14" into the 22" inch deep box and the width at that point is 32"
The chimney entrance is also at 14 from the front of the fireplace. It goes up straight quite a ways but somewhere beyond where we can see, we know that it jogs over to what had had once been the corner of the room, and is in the corner of a second floor room. (There is now an 8 ft addition which places the fireplace in the center. The chimney is within the house with room built on the other side of this wall on both first and second floors.
We would like to supplement our heat when -20, but would like to heat as much as possible. The main area we are heating, was calculated to a need of 10 kwh, a lot of windows on the south, well insulated.
With all this said. We both really want/like the wood stoves, no lack of dried wood and a constant supply of oak. However, if we are making this harder than it needs to be and we should do an insert, we are open to what would best heat this large of an area without relying on a fan running all the time. We also don't want to be heated out of the room, as this is our main living area.
First photo is 22 years ago, along with direction that the chimney goes. Dropped floor has been raised. 2nd photo size of room without the eat in kitchen (to the right) doors to the left go to an office and to the front entry (leading to upstairs), 3rd photo is what we are seeing and wondering if we can go straight up from a stove pushed partly in.
Open to all ideas, suggestions, etc.
I have been lurking, reading, studying, and now down to just needing to ask. We had a 1970's wood burning fireplace with an interior chimney and metal firebox over cement block. Twenty some years ago we changed to a gas insert and are now ready to do what I wanted to do in the first place -hopefully put in a wood burning stove.
My first question is, with the below dimensions, if we can partially set one back in and have a top vent vs rear vent.
Height of opening is 30"
Width in front is 36"
The metal liner begins to angle back 14" into the 22" inch deep box and the width at that point is 32"
The chimney entrance is also at 14 from the front of the fireplace. It goes up straight quite a ways but somewhere beyond where we can see, we know that it jogs over to what had had once been the corner of the room, and is in the corner of a second floor room. (There is now an 8 ft addition which places the fireplace in the center. The chimney is within the house with room built on the other side of this wall on both first and second floors.
We would like to supplement our heat when -20, but would like to heat as much as possible. The main area we are heating, was calculated to a need of 10 kwh, a lot of windows on the south, well insulated.
With all this said. We both really want/like the wood stoves, no lack of dried wood and a constant supply of oak. However, if we are making this harder than it needs to be and we should do an insert, we are open to what would best heat this large of an area without relying on a fan running all the time. We also don't want to be heated out of the room, as this is our main living area.
First photo is 22 years ago, along with direction that the chimney goes. Dropped floor has been raised. 2nd photo size of room without the eat in kitchen (to the right) doors to the left go to an office and to the front entry (leading to upstairs), 3rd photo is what we are seeing and wondering if we can go straight up from a stove pushed partly in.
Open to all ideas, suggestions, etc.
