Well we had a old leaky wood stove in our basement growing up, but mom wouldnt let dad use it much do to it smoking up the house. I am in the process of building a new home and rather taking up room in our smaller living room with a fireplace I asked them to rough in for a fireplace in the basement. There will be more room and we plan on finishing it. I am hoping with one of the newer wood stoves there will be less smokyness issues.
So we looked at 1 place and really liked the quadrafires. And I really liked the look of free standing over a insert. I want to look at a few more places and compare and get pricing and such. We will be letting whoever we buy it from install it, but I will be doing the framing and brick/stone work.
Here are some pics of the new house and the basement design I am going for.(Sketch-it is a great program!) Hopefully this works I have never posted pics here and my work blocks photobucket so I had to find the pics on my phone then email the links to myself. If they don't work I will fix it this evening.
So to the questions....
1. Should I use some kind of insulation in the framing inside of the fireplace between the concrete and the concrete board? The rest of the basement will have foam board glued to the concrete then standard fiberglass in the 2x4 wall framing.
2. Right now if you look up the fireplace rough-in you can see all the way to the top. I would think that would make the basement cold. How should I deal with this and should I use any insulation? I was thinking of using concrete board like 2 foot above my fireplace opening to "cap it". You wont see it but it would stop air movement. But I am unsure weather you can use like bat fireresistant insulation or something else to help keep the cold or hot out when the stove it not in use.
3. What other stoves do you all recommend looking at? This will not be used as a primary heat source however I am planning on running a HVAC return right by it to help circulate some of the warm air. I want some heat from it but burn time is more my priority.
Thanks for the help!
So we looked at 1 place and really liked the quadrafires. And I really liked the look of free standing over a insert. I want to look at a few more places and compare and get pricing and such. We will be letting whoever we buy it from install it, but I will be doing the framing and brick/stone work.
Here are some pics of the new house and the basement design I am going for.(Sketch-it is a great program!) Hopefully this works I have never posted pics here and my work blocks photobucket so I had to find the pics on my phone then email the links to myself. If they don't work I will fix it this evening.
So to the questions....
1. Should I use some kind of insulation in the framing inside of the fireplace between the concrete and the concrete board? The rest of the basement will have foam board glued to the concrete then standard fiberglass in the 2x4 wall framing.
2. Right now if you look up the fireplace rough-in you can see all the way to the top. I would think that would make the basement cold. How should I deal with this and should I use any insulation? I was thinking of using concrete board like 2 foot above my fireplace opening to "cap it". You wont see it but it would stop air movement. But I am unsure weather you can use like bat fireresistant insulation or something else to help keep the cold or hot out when the stove it not in use.
3. What other stoves do you all recommend looking at? This will not be used as a primary heat source however I am planning on running a HVAC return right by it to help circulate some of the warm air. I want some heat from it but burn time is more my priority.
Thanks for the help!