Installing wood stove in preexisting home

Hey. I figured out how to do the link but not the actual pic.

Looks good. Appreciate the effort.

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I installed a woodburning stove. Enjoy it very much and paid about $1,000 twenty years ago. Now it's around $2,000. Get one with high efficiency and flue gas recirculation and a wheelbarrow load of wood will make a quarter cup of ash. I don't know how to attach a picture.

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Did you install it yourself?

I added a wood stove during a remodel not long ago. I had a contractor on remodel so had him do the actual work for the install but I ordered all the parts. Stove pipe is expensive. My stove heats the whole house to where I never have to run the central heat. Only time it runs is when I’m gone and wife doesn’t make a fire. They put out way more heat than a regular fireplace. I’ll never live somewhere without one. Most days I leave the door open enough to make the house cold enough to justify a fire.

I've in fact done it, but I do residential remodeling to pay my bills. I also did one down at the farm, but as new construction, and fricking love it. A plumb bob is your best friend, in case you were asking about doing it yourself lol. Here's the one from my place, in action tonight.



Bought mine used, but fully refurbished, at a local fireplace store. Weighed a metric frick ton, a dolly and some blocks are your friend here. So if you notice, this a-hole chose a rock face brick. Not per se the easiest thing to level out 4 legs on, but my mason knew what was up... I was gonna put tape down and grind 4 small semi flat spots, if necessary just something to ponder if you're considering a non flat surface to put the stove on top of, like a natural stone or iffy mason.

Damn, y'all making me want to put a wood-burning stove in my fireplace.

Man, all these comments are really making me want one. I'm having trouble finding anyone on the northshore who knows much about installing a stove. Any suggestions?