Woodstove in Fireplace

[timfromohio]

This is premature, but please humor me ... we've been stuck in an apartment for the past 7 months after having to leave our home in NEOhio (and PE insert in lower level of home, Napolean 1150P in kitchen level...). No woodburning overwinter, electric heat in apartment = depressed. Anyway, have offer in on new place down here in SWOhio. Home has nice brick fireplace with an older insert. If we get the place, I'll be installing a freestanding stove.

I've installed both an insert into an existing chimney (using full, flexible liner) as well as freestanding stove that was vented through the roof. Now I may be installing stove into the fireplace. The stoves I'm considering have rear vent as an option. I'd like a T out of the back of the stove for ease of chimney cleaning.

Question - would I go straight out the back of stove into the T and then connect flexible liner directly to that? Is there benefit to using rigid stove pipe through the existing chimney? Also, I know I'll want a block-off place of some form - suggestions?

The brick fireplace is on the end of the interior of the home, but is open on the other side to a garage, not directly outside.

Thanks for humoring me with suggestions I have been watching youtube videos of different stoves burning over the winter while dealing with electric heat. This has been a poor substitute for what I had grown accustomed to.

 

[webby3650]

I like to use flex for the whole thing. Then change it over to rigid SS before it comes into sight down below. Then paint it everything black thats visible. There is nothing at all wrong with flex, its just not very nice to look at.

 

[begreen]

Good luck with getting the new house tim. Are you able to get a stash of dry wood this late in the season?

 

[timfromohio]

I'll have to buy wood this season, but the place we have under contract is on 7.5 mostly wooded acres, so I'll be set for quite some time ...

webby - thanks

I was thinking of something like this:

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coupled to a flexible liner?

 

[webby3650]

I'll have to buy wood this season, but the place we have under contract is on 7.5 mostly wooded acres, so I'll be set for quite some time ...

webby - thanks

I was thinking of something like this:

(broken link removed)

coupled to a flexible liner?

Yes. That's what you need.
Unless you need to lower the T to line up with the stove. Then you can get a rigid T with some rigid pipe above it. Just attach your appliance connector with the band clamp to the piece of rigid pipe. Most liner kits come with this connector.