Wife and I are buying a new house for Valentine's Day. Nah, just kidding about the reason, but we are (cross fingers) closing Monday. There is a partly finished basement with a fireplace in the unfinished part. We are planning on finishing that part and putting in a wood stove and making a recreation area. Maybe a pinball machine. I'd love a pool table, but there's a post in the middle of it so I don't think that's going to happen.
Anyway, the masonry chimney is primarily exterior. A few inches of the mass is in the house, but most of it is out. From the basement it goes up past the first floor, and then about 4 to 6 feet higher than the edge of the roof. So from the basement floor maybe 21 to 25 feet high.
According to the instructions for most of the stoves I've seen, it's "ok" to just put a chimney connector pipe up into the flue with a block off plate (i.e., no liner), but from reading here I gather that it probably wouldn't work well.
So I have questions:
1) is it guaranteed to not work well, or just likely to not work well?
2) if we try it without, and it doesn't work, then it's just a question of putting a liner in it, right?
The chimney has not been inspected, so it's entirely possible that it might not be usable without a liner.
3) if it needs a liner, how much will it benefit from insulation?
The stove at the top of my list at the moment is a Jotul 118 Black Bear. But my wife will probably want something with a larger window. And I do really like an ash drawer. I've just started looking and there are so many to chose from. My local store sells Jotul and Vermont Castings (which I won't get again), and one or two others.
Anyway, the masonry chimney is primarily exterior. A few inches of the mass is in the house, but most of it is out. From the basement it goes up past the first floor, and then about 4 to 6 feet higher than the edge of the roof. So from the basement floor maybe 21 to 25 feet high.
According to the instructions for most of the stoves I've seen, it's "ok" to just put a chimney connector pipe up into the flue with a block off plate (i.e., no liner), but from reading here I gather that it probably wouldn't work well.
So I have questions:
1) is it guaranteed to not work well, or just likely to not work well?
2) if we try it without, and it doesn't work, then it's just a question of putting a liner in it, right?
The chimney has not been inspected, so it's entirely possible that it might not be usable without a liner.
3) if it needs a liner, how much will it benefit from insulation?
The stove at the top of my list at the moment is a Jotul 118 Black Bear. But my wife will probably want something with a larger window. And I do really like an ash drawer. I've just started looking and there are so many to chose from. My local store sells Jotul and Vermont Castings (which I won't get again), and one or two others.
