Hello I just wanted to make a new thread. Very nice website here with great advice.
My wife and I moved in to our 2,500sqft house about 8 months ago. Home came equipped with a brick fireplace with a gas insert. I always enjoy real fires in the winter, so the gas insert had to go.
My main goal was to supplement the furnace with a stove insert. After going over the numbers for the stove, liner, installation, ect, I did not see the boss approving the purchase. Natural gas being so cheap, my payback would be 10+ years. I had to go for a used insert.
Saw a Regency i2400 pop up on CL. It was in bad shape. Exactly what I was looking for. After a few weekends refinishing it, looked as good as new. Next was the 6'' insulated liner, 25'. After reading positive reviews, I went with Rockford and OTD paid $720. After doing some lengthly reading, I determined the liner was a DIY job. I surprisingly installed the liner completely myself. That made it difficult.
Just wanted to show some before and after pictures of the stove.
So far my tally is:
Stove: $600
Liner $700
Ax: $50
I have yet to install a blocking plate. I only have about a 6'' gap from the top of the stove to the brick to work with. Unbolting the liner from the stove and temporarily sliding out the stove to have a better workspace is not an option. Bolting them up was extremely difficult. So my questions are:
1. How do you install a blocking plate with very little room to work with?
2. I insulated my liner completely (all the way to where it meets the stove). Is this bad? I read with the blocking plate installed and the insert insulated, you can see heat improvements. Am I missing some of that additional heat by insulating the liner all the way to the stove? Seems like it is typical to insulate just above the blocking plate.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
My wife and I moved in to our 2,500sqft house about 8 months ago. Home came equipped with a brick fireplace with a gas insert. I always enjoy real fires in the winter, so the gas insert had to go.
My main goal was to supplement the furnace with a stove insert. After going over the numbers for the stove, liner, installation, ect, I did not see the boss approving the purchase. Natural gas being so cheap, my payback would be 10+ years. I had to go for a used insert.
Saw a Regency i2400 pop up on CL. It was in bad shape. Exactly what I was looking for. After a few weekends refinishing it, looked as good as new. Next was the 6'' insulated liner, 25'. After reading positive reviews, I went with Rockford and OTD paid $720. After doing some lengthly reading, I determined the liner was a DIY job. I surprisingly installed the liner completely myself. That made it difficult.
Just wanted to show some before and after pictures of the stove.
So far my tally is:
Stove: $600
Liner $700
Ax: $50
I have yet to install a blocking plate. I only have about a 6'' gap from the top of the stove to the brick to work with. Unbolting the liner from the stove and temporarily sliding out the stove to have a better workspace is not an option. Bolting them up was extremely difficult. So my questions are:
1. How do you install a blocking plate with very little room to work with?
2. I insulated my liner completely (all the way to where it meets the stove). Is this bad? I read with the blocking plate installed and the insert insulated, you can see heat improvements. Am I missing some of that additional heat by insulating the liner all the way to the stove? Seems like it is typical to insulate just above the blocking plate.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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