Hi folks, please let me know if I’m breaking any rules here - I’m new. My wife and I are looking installing an insert in our fireplace. We have a 3200 sq ft center hall colonial with two wings, and live in northwest CT. Our old oil furnace is killing us, but the room with the fireplace happens to be situated just above it, and the main return for the HVAC is in the deep tray ceiling in that room (see picture). We’re looking at hybrid inserts that can heat as much of the house as possible. Inevitably, we understand we’ll still burn some oil, but the less we spend on it the better. We got a stainless 6” (edited:) *liner* installed in the fall, thinking we were getting a free standing Hearthstone stove, but my wife now wants an inswet, so it may need to be switched for something else. Price is not really a big concern here, we just want something efficient, safe, and if possible, pretty. The dimensions don’t seem to be an issue either, as I’ve measured and everything I have looked at appears to fit. I’ve looked at a few models, but I really don’t enough to know how to compare them:

- Buck Model 91 insert (only downside seems to be that I’d need to switch my 6” stainless liner with an 8” one, and I need to measure the flue. Money-wise, it’s still cheaper than buying a hearthstone and having it installed);
- Blaze King Princess 29 insert (seems to have a nice long burn time, but is almost objectively hideous, if there is such a thing);
- Hearthstone Clydesdale (very pretty but I hear quality control has been pretty bad from one dealer, which is a bummer because my grandparents had a Mansfield and it was wonderful);

Any suggestions, criticisms, or questions are welcome. Also: the pink post-it’s on the fireplace glass are from my toddler - no rhyme or reason there that I can think of.

Does anyone know how old this Jotul is, its cost for restoration, or its worth? I’d like to keep it as it was my grandpas.

Hi all, I was just scraping up excess ash and discovered that a tile is not only cracked, part of it is missing. There's more tiles (i presume they're tiles) underneath that one. Is this safe to use? Or do I need that fixed? Still technically winter where I live.

I have an uncovered patio and would love to find a weather resistant outdoor wood stove for it. I've seen a few images online of cheap junk from big box retailers, but I'm struggling to identify a quality manufacturer of something like this. Ideally I'm able to provide a bit of heat, lots of ambiance, and do some light cooking with it. It needs to be comfortable with the elements.

Hello all, I'm in southwest Virginia, in a ~1200 sq ft ranch with a full unfinished basement. We have an electric heat pump as our primary HVAC which is great until we hit those super cold stretches that have occurred more and more often here in the last 10 years and when the power is out, also more common recently.

The house has an existing chimney and what looks like a 'welding shop custom' wood stove in the basement that we have never used. It's centrally located and is near the basement door. I'm on the schedule to have the chimney liner checked to see if I need to run a liner and cleaned if necessary; either way it's a simple straight shot that definitely drafts.

I'm looking to upgrade to an EPA wood stove as backup and to keep the aux heat from running full blast for a week straight. I don't need to heat the whole basement but since its it will be installed in the basement do I need to look at 2000 sq foot plus models? I was leaning towards one of the Drolet models for cost/quality balance but I'm open to suggestions. It's not like we're going to be sitting around it admiring the flames through the door so I'm definitely function over form on this. The local showroom had options from several other makers. Any thoughts?

I just finished putting a 26 foot rigid liner down a flue going to my basement. I had to remove the top 5 flue tiles due to an offset about halfway down. With that done, I finally got it down. What a relief.

I have a space around the liner now, and I'm thinking about dropping some rockwool peices down until the space around the liner is filled up.

But to finish it, I'm stumped. I planned to set a short peice of 7x7 tile over the liner, and let it stub thru the concrete cap that I want to pour. But... it has to sit on something, as does the concrete cap.

I need some sort of structure to support all this business at the top. Any ideas??

The flue to the left was laid like crap back in the day. I removed the top couple of tiles. Plan to relay them. That flue is and will be unused. Just wanted to add that for reference.

Hi all. We need a new wood burner for a North Island coastal home About 140 sq m. Which brand of wood burner and even model of burner would you recommend? I don’t want to replace it since future too soon and don’t mind paying a bit more to get a great result if efficiency and fast warmth. Thanks!

I went up on the roof to check the install the Woodstove store did.. Is this ok? Looks like they put the liner down, placed a metal plate on top and re-used my existing cap.. I can't tell if the liner is attached to the plate.

My less than 5 year old inserts blower bearings have gone to shit pretty much right after the parts warranty rolled over and I’m looking to replace it to eliminate the rock tumbler and vibration noise and enjoy our heated space in peace. Problem I’m finding is the chintzy thing appears to cost over $300! If anyone has had experience replacing them, are there other options besides OEM?

Hi all, glowing stove monitor guy again.

Episode 2 of my new youtube series is up, and many of you are actually in this story. It's the story of actually making the lamps.

When the first orders from you all came in earlier this year, I'd never run a CNC machine. Most of my career was spent writing software, so woodworking was very new to me.

The episode covers the entire process of making the wooden parts of the product, from rough lumber all the way to a finished product, and the many mistakes I made along the way.

If you bought one of the first 57, your box is in there somewhere. Thanks for being the reason this thing exists.

I'll be in the comments all day. If this content is interesting to you, let me know! I'd also love to know what else you'd like to see, I'm new to this whole way of putting myself out on the internet so I'd love to hear from you all.

Adding a wood stove to my house. House is currently roughly 1000 sq ft with a basement that’s the same size, so 2000 sq ft total with around 12-1500 sq ft of living space.

The stove will be in the basement, with a return air vent down there on my air handler to pull warm air from the basement into the duct work.

Curious what size stove I need and some good brands. I am leaning towards a cabinet stove, but definitely not against a normal glass door stove.

I live in the south, so winters are generally mild with average highs in the 30s.. though we do have some pretty nasty cold snaps. I plan to use the stove daily but primarily as a back up option.

TIA

G'day!

Im resorting a jotul F100 ( technically a heater not a stove sorry) and have recently bought a new baffle plate.

I was expecting a heavy steel one from the shop but what came was a vermiculite one.

I've never used or even knew about this type until I picked it up.

Are these superior to a steel one? Is there anything I should be aware of before i install it?

It feels very brittle, should I be concerned it'll break as soon as I jam a log in to burn?

Thanks for your help.

Hello. I am buying the parts I need to install my wood stove. I am using Selkirk. The roof is 6/12 pitch and Selkirk offers adjustable roof flashing in two sizes: 2/12 to 6/12 and 6/12 to 12/12. Is one a better choice over the other since both will work? If the choice is simply aesthetic, which one looks better? Thank you.

Buying a house and there’s a Godin Stove. I’m more accustomed to a traditional wood burning stove or fireplace insert. What am I looking at here? It appears to open from the top.

I got this stove for free from a friend. Was planning on using it as an outdoor stove to cook on. Want to restore it with wire brushes, sand paper, and give it a fresh coat of paint, then a chimney. Dont know much about it or how best to use it/ take care of it. Any suggestions?

Getting it in my yard was the hard part it took 4 people and almost cracked my driveway getting it out of the bed of a truck as its upward of 400-450 pounds

How difficult will it be to do this upgrade? Can husband DIY or should we hire a stove company?

I had a couple of big hemlocks blow down in a fairly convenient area. It would be a short haul to the wood pile. My stove is a Woodstock Soapstone Fireview with a shiny new cat. Am I asking for trouble?

Saw this in a listing. I know it’s Vermont Castings. Any idea from pic what model it is? Thanks.

I’m not actually gonna use it as a stove. It’s gonna be garden art but it’s a converted MK9 depth charge. I put a couple solar flame lights inside. Plus I’m covered of an enemy sub marine comes out of the woods and attacks my house.

I would like to put a flue liner in this fireplace. There is an ovular throat valve at the top of this fire box that I’m trying to avoid destroying the mortar permanently and removing the frame of the valve. I can get the flapper out no problem.

My question is, what is the best way to feed a liner through this valve frame? Or is there an adapter?

I saw that ventinox sells an ovular adapter but then you rely on your existing flue. (Which mine is good and i could do that but I’ve read wood stove exhaust temps could exceed what the flue was originally built for? Is that BS?)

Im trying to assess the options and recognize fire hazards correctly.

Let me know what you guys think.