Has anyone ever modified their home to better facilitate heating with a wood stove?
We bought our house 2 years ago. its a small 1300 sq. ft. ranch, with not a real open floor plan. It had a big fireplace at one end which I bricked over the opening, made a round hold about 5' up, then extended the top 6' and ran a full stainless steel liner connected to a wood stove. Works pretty good, its one of those old sheet metal stoves with the tin shield all around - doesnt really even look like a wood stove. That thing really cooks though, but its had to run it 24/7 without half of the house being well into the 80's and even 90 or so sometimes, whereas the other end of the house is usually between 60-70.
I would like to be able to put the stove in a more central location and run a insulated stainless steel chimney straight up from it through the roof. However, there is no good location in the middle of the house due to walls and a hallway.
Also its kind of nice where it is now, because it has that huge brick chimney behind it that serves as a nice hearth area, however, the setup is just not ideal.
To do what I want may require some wall modification.
anyone ever do anything similar? or do you just figure out how to best live with your current home configuration?
I dream of a day when we can build our own home - it would be a nice little 1200 sq. ft. open square house with the woodstove right in the middle.
We bought our house 2 years ago. its a small 1300 sq. ft. ranch, with not a real open floor plan. It had a big fireplace at one end which I bricked over the opening, made a round hold about 5' up, then extended the top 6' and ran a full stainless steel liner connected to a wood stove. Works pretty good, its one of those old sheet metal stoves with the tin shield all around - doesnt really even look like a wood stove. That thing really cooks though, but its had to run it 24/7 without half of the house being well into the 80's and even 90 or so sometimes, whereas the other end of the house is usually between 60-70.
I would like to be able to put the stove in a more central location and run a insulated stainless steel chimney straight up from it through the roof. However, there is no good location in the middle of the house due to walls and a hallway.
Also its kind of nice where it is now, because it has that huge brick chimney behind it that serves as a nice hearth area, however, the setup is just not ideal.
To do what I want may require some wall modification.
anyone ever do anything similar? or do you just figure out how to best live with your current home configuration?
I dream of a day when we can build our own home - it would be a nice little 1200 sq. ft. open square house with the woodstove right in the middle.