Morning! When we moved into our house last year, my wife and I have never quite agreed on the path forward for an existing platform for a wood burning stove. I don’t know what is under the hearth tile (wood, cement board?) and I’m fairly certain that there is brick behind the 4” wall tile. The chimney opening is currently covered with a stainless steel plate. The chimney itself needs some work; definitely repointing, and maybe even some rebuild at the top. We had the crown rebuilt last year just to keep water from leaking down. There’s rotten sheathing behind the chimney bricks due to leaky flashing that makes its way down into the basement during extremely heavy rains, so I’ll probably have to repair that, too. Will need a liner.
I guess what I am asking, is, how functional and “ready to use” does this area for a potential stove look? We don’t have a back door and we’ve been considering demolishing this chimney to make room for one in the dining room, but we also want a wood stove to compliment our open fireplace and don’t want to reinvent the wheel, so to speak, by relocating it somewhere else.
Thoughts?
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I guess what I am asking, is, how functional and “ready to use” does this area for a potential stove look? We don’t have a back door and we’ve been considering demolishing this chimney to make room for one in the dining room, but we also want a wood stove to compliment our open fireplace and don’t want to reinvent the wheel, so to speak, by relocating it somewhere else.
Thoughts?
![Any glaring issues with this potential stove hearth/platform as it exists currently? Any glaring issues with this potential stove hearth/platform as it exists currently?](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/298/298531-a227f91565083b55f174c0ba01548425.jpg)
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