Did you remove a slammer? If so, say aye.

[woodgeek]

My first thread...

If I had a $ for every person on here with a story of upgrading or swapping out a 'slammer' in the house they bought....well I think I could buy a new stove.

Slammer==a fireplace insert with no vent pipe, or for the purposes of argument, a short length of stovepipe without any sort of hard block-off plate. My slammer had a 6" length of 8" pipe! Really. I guess they wanted the vent to be higher than the lintel.

So, if you had a slammer, and now you've upgraded it, let's us know it. I'm curious to know if what you read on here was part of your process/decision.

 

[burntime]

Yep, 1981 cemi slammer. New stove is well worth it. No, hearth.com saddly was not the driving force, I found them after when I was looking for more info. Bookmark it, a lot of good people and information are here!

 

[webbie]

With the help of BeGreen, I am working on a couple articles about planning and installing an insert....with a little diagram of a "slammer" - but I called the "slip-in".

Remember that this was 100% legal at one time.......but it was not long before we discovered they didn't draft well and started using a block off plate and short length of pipe.

https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/articles/install_insert

 

[BrotherBart]

I replaced my 21 year old slammer a couple of years ago. Based on it running away on me twice after I installed a liner. In the process I discovered a busted weld in the firebox that was letting in a lot of air and the insert came out of that fireplace the next day and was replaced with an EPA stove.

 

[begreen]

When we moved into the house 16 yrs ago there was a Majestic insert slammed into the fireplace with a deteriorating brick chimney, no clay tile liner. I lined the chimney with rigid stainless first thing and direct connected the stove. It was still a crappy heater, I had to rig my own blower system. But at least it was safe(r) for the 4 years we used it. Finally, in 2000 I replaced it with a Quad 1200i pellet insert, which was a really big improvement.