New to the forum but have been reading and educating myself on here for the past month. A lot of good insight here that would otherwise have not been available. I have my stove (which I got a hella deal on at Lowes https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/47405/#544009 ), single wall pipe, double wall chimney, and installation kit (includes things like ceiling support, insulation shield, flashing, cap, etc).
The stove is going in my basement which renovation should be completed this winter. I'm going to get my hearth all set up first and get the stove operable. I'll then work around it finishing off the basement.
My only holdup right now is the fact that there is 12 inches of snow on my roof. Here in Cleveland OH it doesn't look like we'll have a warm up anytime soon with all of this cold air coming from Canada. Unless someone else has ideas or experience installing a chimney on a roof that is snow covered, my hands are basically tied at this point.
Install is pretty straight forward. The stove is in the basement and the chimney will run through the first floor, into the attic and out the roof. I'm going to frame a little bulkhead in the room I use for my office for the chimney to pass through. I can run straight up from the stove and out the top of the roof -- the only issue would be that the chimney is in the middle of the roof on the front of the house. I have thought about using an offset in the attic to allow the chimney to be placed on the back of the house to alleviate some of the eye sore. Any one else run into a situation like this?
Finally, I think that I am going to do the install myself but I did find a local guy that does chimney installations (apparently that's all he does). He wants to charge $300 to install the chimney. What are your thoughts on the route I should go? I mean, I'm pretty handy and can tackle all other home improvement projects. I am torn because it would be nice to have him come in and do it so I don't have to but at the end of the day, 300 bucks is 300 bucks.
The stove is going in my basement which renovation should be completed this winter. I'm going to get my hearth all set up first and get the stove operable. I'll then work around it finishing off the basement.
My only holdup right now is the fact that there is 12 inches of snow on my roof. Here in Cleveland OH it doesn't look like we'll have a warm up anytime soon with all of this cold air coming from Canada. Unless someone else has ideas or experience installing a chimney on a roof that is snow covered, my hands are basically tied at this point.
Install is pretty straight forward. The stove is in the basement and the chimney will run through the first floor, into the attic and out the roof. I'm going to frame a little bulkhead in the room I use for my office for the chimney to pass through. I can run straight up from the stove and out the top of the roof -- the only issue would be that the chimney is in the middle of the roof on the front of the house. I have thought about using an offset in the attic to allow the chimney to be placed on the back of the house to alleviate some of the eye sore. Any one else run into a situation like this?
Finally, I think that I am going to do the install myself but I did find a local guy that does chimney installations (apparently that's all he does). He wants to charge $300 to install the chimney. What are your thoughts on the route I should go? I mean, I'm pretty handy and can tackle all other home improvement projects. I am torn because it would be nice to have him come in and do it so I don't have to but at the end of the day, 300 bucks is 300 bucks.