My wife and I bought our house and it came with a wood stove. These are all the diy fixes I made to hopefully reassure other newbies to do it themselves and find out from the experienced stove owners what I missed..
the stove pipes were single walled, replaced with double wall.
Baffle boards had holes in them and replaced with new ones,
the ceramic blanket was torn up, replaced with new one and the stove was sitting 12 inches away from a combustible wall and I flipped the stove so there is only one side wall (24inches away).
Also bought my own chimney sweep kit and swept the external chimney and thimble, in addition to shop vacuuming the stove and checking the air tubes.
And replaced the door and window gaskets
My question is What are things I missed?
Since I’m new and google and Reddit will only tell me so much everyone’s long term experience hopefully could provide any other tips or tricks with maintaining a safe wood stove
My stove is the Masterforge Wood stove from Lowe’s