Hello Everybody, first post. Woohoo. I just bought a used Pellet Stove Insert. The company is The Earth Stove. It has a thermostat and a really nice control panel inside of a hinged door on the right surround bezel. It didn't come with any instruction or installation manual. The model says 2001-1. Its a 2007. The guy I bought it from told me it heats 1800sq. Its VERY nice.
My dad called his local wood and pellet stove store and told them my situation. My house is a 1932. It has a fireplace running right up the middle of it. My fireplace is on the first floor in the living room. I also have second floor and a walk up attic. My fireplace was just cleaned and pointed and reflashed and is in great shape. It also has a top hat on it to keep the rain out. My fireplace also has a large trap door dampner on it with a lever sticking out of the front brick. I assume that is called the flue dampner. My fireplace floor has a trap door that opens and there is a clean out on the side of the chimney in the basement. The guy told him I should buy a 10' section of 3" flexpipe and I will be good to go. He said I only have to extend the pipe as high as the second floor
and I will be good to go. I talked to another guy today and he said I have to get an adapter that bolts to the insert itself and that is what I connect the pipe to.
I get a different answer from just about everybody I ask or read about online. My roof is very steep and I would need to hire somebody to walk up to the chimney if the pipe has to be put in from the top. If I could use flex pipe like the guy told my dad I could do it from the inside myself. I just want to do it correctly but I don't want to spend more than I have too. This is just for supplemental heat. My main source of heat is gas fired hot water heaters.
Thanks in advance!
My dad called his local wood and pellet stove store and told them my situation. My house is a 1932. It has a fireplace running right up the middle of it. My fireplace is on the first floor in the living room. I also have second floor and a walk up attic. My fireplace was just cleaned and pointed and reflashed and is in great shape. It also has a top hat on it to keep the rain out. My fireplace also has a large trap door dampner on it with a lever sticking out of the front brick. I assume that is called the flue dampner. My fireplace floor has a trap door that opens and there is a clean out on the side of the chimney in the basement. The guy told him I should buy a 10' section of 3" flexpipe and I will be good to go. He said I only have to extend the pipe as high as the second floor
and I will be good to go. I talked to another guy today and he said I have to get an adapter that bolts to the insert itself and that is what I connect the pipe to.
I get a different answer from just about everybody I ask or read about online. My roof is very steep and I would need to hire somebody to walk up to the chimney if the pipe has to be put in from the top. If I could use flex pipe like the guy told my dad I could do it from the inside myself. I just want to do it correctly but I don't want to spend more than I have too. This is just for supplemental heat. My main source of heat is gas fired hot water heaters.
Thanks in advance!