Last year while shopping for a house, I ran a cross a USSC 6041 with a clearance price I could not pass up. I hauled it around in my van for 6 weeks until the house was purchased. The day of closing I installed it in a sidewall in the family room. Good to go.
It now occurs to me that an insert would have served us better because the fireplace is at the end of the room and the heat would be blowing down the length instead of the width. I contacted USSC; they do not have a conversion kit.
Are there any reasons to not convert it myself? As luck would have it, the hearth is wide enough and the damper in the pre-fab FP is large enough to allow the exhaust and OAK piping. Fabricating a cover is not a problem.
Thanks
It now occurs to me that an insert would have served us better because the fireplace is at the end of the room and the heat would be blowing down the length instead of the width. I contacted USSC; they do not have a conversion kit.
Are there any reasons to not convert it myself? As luck would have it, the hearth is wide enough and the damper in the pre-fab FP is large enough to allow the exhaust and OAK piping. Fabricating a cover is not a problem.
Thanks