Hey guys, my dad and I went on a little recon mission two days ago at a foreclosed property I'm looking at.
I brief description: 4 bedroom ranch with full walk out basement, total upstairs sqft is about 2,000 sq ft and same? for the basement.
Anyway for hearth specific's, looking from the outside (no pics) there is a main chimney located almost center of the house, there are (4) separate flues with (4) separate caps.
In the basement they have an old franklin wood stove connected to (1) flue, then on the other side of the chimney in a separate room (utility room) they have the oil boiler piped to the other.
Obviously I would take my bk princess and trade out the old franklin stove.
Upstairs is a different story, peering in the window they have one of those 2-way fire places, one side goes to the kitchen, living room, dinning room, the other goes to the main den room, from the den the hallway is connected to get to the bedrooms and assuming the bathroom.
My 1st thought was - masonry heater, I've seen so refurb ones from old fireplaces on youtube, but the cost and space has me concerned, then I thought (2) inserts, back to back with a block off plate? I could just run the one insert as I see fit but if a arctic outbreak occurs i'll be prepared.
I also should let you know a head of time that regardless of the chimney condition any stove that I put in will have a liner (depending on flue size, and whether the proper masonry clearances are correct) will determine if its insulated or not) *remember this big chimney is interior.
I work for a power company and I already know due to this houses location (stand alone, middle of the woods, through the woods back yard line construction) that I will have power outages, and some of them might be longer than average outages) that's why I'm leaning wood stove heavy for this place.
I brief description: 4 bedroom ranch with full walk out basement, total upstairs sqft is about 2,000 sq ft and same? for the basement.
Anyway for hearth specific's, looking from the outside (no pics) there is a main chimney located almost center of the house, there are (4) separate flues with (4) separate caps.
In the basement they have an old franklin wood stove connected to (1) flue, then on the other side of the chimney in a separate room (utility room) they have the oil boiler piped to the other.
Obviously I would take my bk princess and trade out the old franklin stove.
Upstairs is a different story, peering in the window they have one of those 2-way fire places, one side goes to the kitchen, living room, dinning room, the other goes to the main den room, from the den the hallway is connected to get to the bedrooms and assuming the bathroom.
My 1st thought was - masonry heater, I've seen so refurb ones from old fireplaces on youtube, but the cost and space has me concerned, then I thought (2) inserts, back to back with a block off plate? I could just run the one insert as I see fit but if a arctic outbreak occurs i'll be prepared.
I also should let you know a head of time that regardless of the chimney condition any stove that I put in will have a liner (depending on flue size, and whether the proper masonry clearances are correct) will determine if its insulated or not) *remember this big chimney is interior.
I work for a power company and I already know due to this houses location (stand alone, middle of the woods, through the woods back yard line construction) that I will have power outages, and some of them might be longer than average outages) that's why I'm leaning wood stove heavy for this place.
