We are making an offer (finally) on a house tomorrow. I want to continue to heat with wood (property has a 4-acre woodlot), so I was excited to see by the photos that it already came with a stove. Then I was equally unexcited to walk in and see it was a pellet stove. More measurements and such will come if the offer is accepted, but I thought I'd throw up this photo of the hearth area for now, just to get some impressions.
The house has a two-flue exterior masonry chimney with what looks to be 8x12" tile liners. The pellet stove is exhausting into one of the flues, and the fireplace has the other flue. I 'd like to put the stove where the existing fireplace is, but the top of the frame is only 28" tall. Then I'd have to build up the hearth for proper clearances, so the height would be even lower. What would I need to do to get a real stove in this spot?
The house has a two-flue exterior masonry chimney with what looks to be 8x12" tile liners. The pellet stove is exhausting into one of the flues, and the fireplace has the other flue. I 'd like to put the stove where the existing fireplace is, but the top of the frame is only 28" tall. Then I'd have to build up the hearth for proper clearances, so the height would be even lower. What would I need to do to get a real stove in this spot?