I'm removing this woodstove from my basement and I have a free-standing woodburner that I want to install. I'm going to get the existing flue checked for cracks but I am wondering how I should hook up the new woodburner to my existing chimney. The new woodstove has a 6" round exhaust opening but as you can see from the pics, the existing flue is a rectangular clay and the existing stove looks like it just slid in there and never was fully sealed to the flue. Is there some type of adapter that I can buy or should I run a liner the whole way up the existing flue?
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How to hook this stove up to my chimney?
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First of all, the pix don't enlarge, so I'm not sure you uploaded them correctly. in answer to your question, it's best to run a liner from an appliance adapter all the way to the cap. A block off plate is advisable, as well. You may need to insulate the liner, depending on what the chimney inspection reveals...
Welcome to the forums, xpaul. 
Looks like a lot of water was coming down that chimney.
Running a full-length liner is always preferable; Better draft, easier to sweep the chimney, safer, etc. But you should have a tall chimney and plenty of draft from the basement....may want to install a key damper in the pipe if you re-line.
BTW, have you got dry wood? I mean super-dry, like split and stacked in the wind for at least a year (two for Oak.)
Looks like a lot of water was coming down that chimney.
Running a full-length liner is always preferable; Better draft, easier to sweep the chimney, safer, etc. But you should have a tall chimney and plenty of draft from the basement....may want to install a key damper in the pipe if you re-line.
BTW, have you got dry wood? I mean super-dry, like split and stacked in the wind for at least a year (two for Oak.)
Yeah, whatcha got?
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Thank you guys for all of the replies! I have an older woodstove that I got off of a neighbor. I'm going to buy a new Hearthstone or Jotul but I don't have the green for one right now. Hopefully in the next year or two.
With that being said, I think I'm just going to re-line the chimney now and be done with it for good so no matter what stove I go with down the road, the chimney will be golden.
What is the best liner kit to get and where should I buy it?
With that being said, I think I'm just going to re-line the chimney now and be done with it for good so no matter what stove I go with down the road, the chimney will be golden.
What is the best liner kit to get and where should I buy it?
If you can't afford a new stove right now then you probably can't afford a liner.
?? I don't agree. There is a big gap between $400 for a liner and $1400 for a stove and liner. But expauliber, there will be the additional hassle at figuring out how the heck to connect that stove to the liner. It was designed as a slammer with no connection to the chimney. This is illegal now. The damper rod on the outlet is a complication that will require notching the rect. to round flue adapter.
I just stopped at a local place that sells stoves & liners this afternoon and they had stainless steel liner kits that are supposed to be good for a lifetime for $395 and most of the stoves were $2,500 and up. That's quite a difference.
Begreen: I apologize for the confusion. I mislabeled this thread and tried to change the title after I re-read it but I couldn't. I'm not trying to attach the stove in the pictures..that's the stove I removed. I didn't list pictures of the stove I'm putting in but it just has a round 6" outlet.
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Getting the liner is a good place to start if that's all you can afford right now, too many people want to short cut that part.
Here is the stove that I want to temporarily install:
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And here's a picture of where I pulled the old stove out of:
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And here is what I am really leaning towards purchasing in the next year or so and I want to make sure that any liner or work I do now will swap over seamlessly when I get this stove:
(broken link removed to http://www.hearthstonestoves.com/store/wood-products/wood-stoves/phoenix)
Thank you gentlemen for all of your help.
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And here's a picture of where I pulled the old stove out of:
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And here is what I am really leaning towards purchasing in the next year or so and I want to make sure that any liner or work I do now will swap over seamlessly when I get this stove:
(broken link removed to http://www.hearthstonestoves.com/store/wood-products/wood-stoves/phoenix)
Thank you gentlemen for all of your help.
Beefy, Is this a coal stove or it that the overdrive lever on the left side? 
Is the flue exit 6"?
If so a liner with a capped tee on the end with a short connector (pitched uphill toward the chimney) should do the job.
Is the flue exit 6"?If so a liner with a capped tee on the end with a short connector (pitched uphill toward the chimney) should do the job.
Looks like a thermostatic damper to me. I think this is a neglected Hitzer E-Z Flo 50-93 coal stove. Clean that puppy up and put some high -temp stove paint on it. In coal country that might still be worth a pretty penny. But this is not a wood burner.
(broken link removed to http://www.hitzer.com/products/stove/Model-50_93-E_Z-Flo-Hopper-Stove/)
(broken link removed to http://www.hitzer.com/products/stove/Model-50_93-E_Z-Flo-Hopper-Stove/)
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Haha. You guys are cracking me up.
I got this stove off of a neighbor for $25. He was going to scrap it.
It has a 6" exhaust and my hearth is big enough to support it. I'm in central-PA, the heart of coal country but I don't want to burn coal. Can I install this and just burn wood in it?
I got this stove off of a neighbor for $25. He was going to scrap it.
It has a 6" exhaust and my hearth is big enough to support it. I'm in central-PA, the heart of coal country but I don't want to burn coal. Can I install this and just burn wood in it?
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