Here's a look at the installation and the first burn--now going on 30 hours. Last photo is at a WS thermometer reading of just over 600. I borrowed our heat gun from work which reads surface temps. The temp on the glass just under the apex of the window is/was 654 just a few minutes ago. The flue pipe read 500.
The photos show the original FP site, the stove placed, the first (and only fire so far) about to be lit, the view through the window (that's Lynda's supper heating up in the pan), the 16 gauge wall shield I picked up today dry fit behind stove, the vent holes at the bottom and the fire (cat in/damper @ 1, then cat in/damper @ about .75) showing a curtain of flame in the top 1/3 of the firebox--when the wood doesn't look like it's burning at all! A little spooky, eh!
The photos show the original FP site, the stove placed, the first (and only fire so far) about to be lit, the view through the window (that's Lynda's supper heating up in the pan), the 16 gauge wall shield I picked up today dry fit behind stove, the vent holes at the bottom and the fire (cat in/damper @ 1, then cat in/damper @ about .75) showing a curtain of flame in the top 1/3 of the firebox--when the wood doesn't look like it's burning at all! A little spooky, eh!