r/woodstoving

Hi folks, please let me know if I’m breaking any rules here - I’m new. My wife and I are looking installing an insert in our fireplace. We have a 3200 sq ft center hall colonial with two wings, and live in northwest CT. Our old oil furnace is killing us, but the room with the fireplace happens to be situated just above it, and the main return for the HVAC is in the deep tray ceiling in that room (see picture). We’re looking at hybrid inserts that can heat as much of the house as possible. Inevitably, we understand we’ll still burn some oil, but the less we spend on it the better. We got a stainless 6” (edited:) *liner* installed in the fall, thinking we were getting a free standing Hearthstone stove, but my wife now wants an inswet, so it may need to be switched for something else. Price is not really a big concern here, we just want something efficient, safe, and if possible, pretty. The dimensions don’t seem to be an issue either, as I’ve measured and everything I have looked at appears to fit. I’ve looked at a few models, but I really don’t enough to know how to compare them:

- Buck Model 91 insert (only downside seems to be that I’d need to switch my 6” stainless liner with an 8” one, and I need to measure the flue. Money-wise, it’s still cheaper than buying a hearthstone and having it installed);
- Blaze King Princess 29 insert (seems to have a nice long burn time, but is almost objectively hideous, if there is such a thing);
- Hearthstone Clydesdale (very pretty but I hear quality control has been pretty bad from one dealer, which is a bummer because my grandparents had a Mansfield and it was wonderful);

Any suggestions, criticisms, or questions are welcome. Also: the pink post-it’s on the fireplace glass are from my toddler - no rhyme or reason there that I can think of.

I went up on the roof to check the install the Woodstove store did.. Is this ok? Looks like they put the liner down, placed a metal plate on top and re-used my existing cap.. I can't tell if the liner is attached to the plate.

Does anyone know how old this Jotul is, its cost for restoration, or its worth? I’d like to keep it as it was my grandpas.

Hi all, I was just scraping up excess ash and discovered that a tile is not only cracked, part of it is missing. There's more tiles (i presume they're tiles) underneath that one. Is this safe to use? Or do I need that fixed? Still technically winter where I live.

Hi all,

I was given a fireplace insert for free for my renovation house and I am trying to work out if it will fit in.

It was covered in plaster with an old gas fireplace there when I bought it and after removing the plaster it has revealed the original fireplace.

The insert will fit in width-wise, but it is slightly too tall to fit at the moment.

I am trying to figure out if the block behind the opening, that would need cut to get the insert in, is a lintel or not (not planning on taking any risks touching it currently. It doesn’t insert into the walls at each side which makes it seem like it isn’t, even though you’d think it was?

Any advice/thoughts?

I just finished putting a 26 foot rigid liner down a flue going to my basement. I had to remove the top 5 flue tiles due to an offset about halfway down. With that done, I finally got it down. What a relief.

I have a space around the liner now, and I'm thinking about dropping some rockwool peices down until the space around the liner is filled up.

But to finish it, I'm stumped. I planned to set a short peice of 7x7 tile over the liner, and let it stub thru the concrete cap that I want to pour. But... it has to sit on something, as does the concrete cap.

I need some sort of structure to support all this business at the top. Any ideas??

The flue to the left was laid like crap back in the day. I removed the top couple of tiles. Plan to relay them. That flue is and will be unused. Just wanted to add that for reference.

G'day!

Im resorting a jotul F100 ( technically a heater not a stove sorry) and have recently bought a new baffle plate.

I was expecting a heavy steel one from the shop but what came was a vermiculite one.

I've never used or even knew about this type until I picked it up.

Are these superior to a steel one? Is there anything I should be aware of before i install it?

It feels very brittle, should I be concerned it'll break as soon as I jam a log in to burn?

Thanks for your help.

Buying a house and there’s a Godin Stove. I’m more accustomed to a traditional wood burning stove or fireplace insert. What am I looking at here? It appears to open from the top.

I’m not actually gonna use it as a stove. It’s gonna be garden art but it’s a converted MK9 depth charge. I put a couple solar flame lights inside. Plus I’m covered of an enemy sub marine comes out of the woods and attacks my house.

I would like to put a flue liner in this fireplace. There is an ovular throat valve at the top of this fire box that I’m trying to avoid destroying the mortar permanently and removing the frame of the valve. I can get the flapper out no problem.

My question is, what is the best way to feed a liner through this valve frame? Or is there an adapter?

I saw that ventinox sells an ovular adapter but then you rely on your existing flue. (Which mine is good and i could do that but I’ve read wood stove exhaust temps could exceed what the flue was originally built for? Is that BS?)

Im trying to assess the options and recognize fire hazards correctly.

Let me know what you guys think.