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woodnomore

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Oct 3, 2019
219
Central MN
Finally ditched the wood burning insert to switch over to something less labor intensive. Evidently it is hard to sell a house that is heated with wood. My question is do I have to draw air from outside of the house for combustion? I am going to be going out of the existing fire brick then a block wall the angles would make it darn near impossible to use rigid stove pipe. Thanks in advance.
 
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There are as many answers to that question as there are members on this forum.
I have an outside air kit (OAK) only because I hate that I am using air that I paid to
heat to supply the fire. If you don't need it don't put one in. Some manufacturers
call for it.
 
I have burned wood for 25 years using internal combustion air, the exchange is not so bad. bushel of corn a day is way cheaper than pellets or wood.