Clearances?

[RedGuy]

I'm looking to put a wood stove inside my firepalce like an insert. It will fit fine but only give a few inches clearance in some places. I refered to the instalation manual for the stove to find clearances to non-combustables and it simply says to refer to the materials manufacture. Well considering this is a 40 year old brick chimney I doubt I can find the manufacture, but I mean it's brick! So I'm assuming I should be able to have 0 clearance to the bricks in the fireplace. BTW there's not combutables on the other side of the fireplace either, just concrete and dirt. Anybody have any input on this?

 

[ansehnlich1]

Take some pics and post 'em on here so people can get a better idea what you are talking about. Sounds like you are going to install a woodstove back into a fireplace opening. If that's the case, you may want to consider the amount of heat a stove puts off from all sides, you stand to possibly lose some of that heat having it tucked back into a fireplace opening. Having a radiant stove out in the open allows the heat to, well, radiate better

Throw out some pics and I bet you'll get more response here.

 

[RedGuy]

Yep that's what I'm talking about, I don't have the stove yet so a pic would just be of my fire place at this time. Basically the back 2/3rds of the stove would be set back inside the fireplace. The stove does have a blower to push the air out. But I'll probably only have about 3 inches clearance from the back, the sides will have more as my fire place opening is an arch, but the top corners of the stove will only be a couple inches from the brick also.

 

[begreen]

For a freestanding stove, the clearances listed are to combustibles. That's all you need be concerned about. In the case of a fireplace, most typically this means the mantel.