My husband and I are trying to buy a house where the wood stove and oil furnace share a flue, which is not allowed here in NH. Our options are to power vent the furnace or to move the wood stove to an outer wall with a separate chimney. How hard is it to move the wood stove? Any thoughts?
Moving a wood stove set up
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Generally it is not very hard but we need allot more info to give you much of any advice. And by the way it really does not need to be on an outside wall you can run a prefab chimney straight up through the house
AmbDrvr253
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Ive done this in my house. Chimney is not against outer wall. It is where I wanted it. Chimney goes straight up and out.
lml999
Minister of Fire
We looked at a house where the owner had cut through the chimney in the basement and tied a smoke dragon into the flue used by the oil-fired boiler.
Looked like a real hatchet job, and the stovepipe was horizontal.
Did I mention this guy was a volunteer fireman?
It made me consider the other projects of his that would need to be fixed...
Yikes.
We passed on the house.
Looked like a real hatchet job, and the stovepipe was horizontal.
Did I mention this guy was a volunteer fireman?
It made me consider the other projects of his that would need to be fixed...
Yikes.
We passed on the house.
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