Hello everyone,
I am new to this forum, but I am not new to wood stoves. I have recently moved to a new home that has a fireplace. The fireplace is useless. I looked into inserts first, but none are available for the model I have. It is not a masonry fireplace. My family and I would much prefer a wood burning stove anyway. We've been looking around for a few weeks. We just installed the third liner in our chimney yesterday. We just have to figure out what stove we want now. Here's the issue, the flue has to be a rear hook up and it can't be over 22" to the top of the flue. In other words, the total height from the feet to the top of the flue can't exceed 22" because of how the fireplace is made. Finding something has been a challenge. I'm aware there are short feet kits. I'd be willing to have the feet cut off if need be, but most will only go so low and exceed my limit (most have ash boxes so it can only go so low anyway). I'd really rather not have to start cutting out the stone rock work on the front of the fireplace. That's going to be a mess. We found one wood stove that will work, the Hearthstone Homestead. It is soap stone though, and we'd all prefer all metal. It's also a bit more than we'd like to spend. As far as other specifications go, it needs to heat at least 1600 sq. ft. If it's too wide to fit on the rock in front of the fire place, we can extend. We would prefer not to, but that should be easier than having to reduce the height and then extend too. The Hearthstone Homestead will fit without having to extend. Any help would be appreciated on any stove that would fit my requirements.
Thank you for your time,
Crystal
I am new to this forum, but I am not new to wood stoves. I have recently moved to a new home that has a fireplace. The fireplace is useless. I looked into inserts first, but none are available for the model I have. It is not a masonry fireplace. My family and I would much prefer a wood burning stove anyway. We've been looking around for a few weeks. We just installed the third liner in our chimney yesterday. We just have to figure out what stove we want now. Here's the issue, the flue has to be a rear hook up and it can't be over 22" to the top of the flue. In other words, the total height from the feet to the top of the flue can't exceed 22" because of how the fireplace is made. Finding something has been a challenge. I'm aware there are short feet kits. I'd be willing to have the feet cut off if need be, but most will only go so low and exceed my limit (most have ash boxes so it can only go so low anyway). I'd really rather not have to start cutting out the stone rock work on the front of the fireplace. That's going to be a mess. We found one wood stove that will work, the Hearthstone Homestead. It is soap stone though, and we'd all prefer all metal. It's also a bit more than we'd like to spend. As far as other specifications go, it needs to heat at least 1600 sq. ft. If it's too wide to fit on the rock in front of the fire place, we can extend. We would prefer not to, but that should be easier than having to reduce the height and then extend too. The Hearthstone Homestead will fit without having to extend. Any help would be appreciated on any stove that would fit my requirements.
Thank you for your time,
Crystal