I’m pulling out my pellet stove insert and going to buy a wood stove insert. However, my fireplace has three blower pipes that will keep keep me from putting pipes for the insert in. What are my options?
Newbie whose getting ready to install his own wood stove insert
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Is this a prefab Zero Clearance fireplace or is it more of a heatform (heatilator) style fireplace with a masonry chimney? Pictures are welcome.
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That was my thought exactly. What if I I just decided to use the fireplace? Which would technically save the heat more a fire place or a stove?
The insert will be much more efficient and will not suck air and warmth out of the room the way a fireplace will as it is cooling down. However, once that tube is cut the fireplace will be unusable as a fireplace unless that tube is welded shut with a cover plate.
An insert will be much more efficient at putting heat into the room, and with a big window you will still be able to enjoy a nice view of the fire.
A couple more questions. With in those pictures, you can see that the current pipe for the pellet stove has to curve around this steel barrier for the fireplace blowers. Does all that have to come out? Also, somebody told me that piping has to go all the way to the top of the fireplace. Is that true?
You need to cut out enough to fit a flexible 6" liner down through that area. All of them that I have done have enough room without cutting any more than a tube or 2. But yours may be different. I also rivet sheet metal over the holes left by the cut tube to stop airflow.
And yes the liner needs to go all the way up.
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