Timeline for Efficiency boosts for a fireplace
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| Jan 28 at 15:25 | history | protected | FreeMan | ||
| Jan 27 at 17:14 | answer | added | FreeFires | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 14, 2022 at 2:38 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 20:32 | comment | added | Mark | Have you checked with a local fireplace installer? It may be possible to chip out some of the ledge that blocks access for the pipe, or even bore straight through the back and run a new pipe parallel to the existing chimney. | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 19:53 | answer | added | HoneyDo | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 19:49 | comment | added | Solar Mike | @FreeMan kept telling my son “hot - don’t touch”… he touched it once and lesson learnt. Now has his own woodstove and loves it. | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 19:15 | comment | added | FreeMan | I think that the key takeaway is that our stove was long and stuck out into the room (though not beyond the hearth). This allowed it to radiate heat into the living room instead of straight up the chimney. It was, as noted, custom built, and I don't think too many pre-fab fireplace insert stoves are going to stick out into the room very much. People don't want that because it puts hot metal where people could touch it. I was ~10 when this was installed and we lived there for about 8 years afterwards. Nobody managed to burn themselves on the hot stove in that time period. | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 19:11 | comment | added | AdamO | @FreeMan I guess I hadn't considered that, if the smoke chamber is batted down with fiberglass insulation that the heat will necessarily move out into the living room. | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 18:48 | comment | added | FreeMan | When I was a kid, my father, with a bit of help, converted an old water heater into a wood burning stove (added legs, fire brick on the bottom, a baffle of some sort & a chimney vent). After about 6 guys helped deliver & slide it into the fireplace, some quantity of pipe was shoved up the flue and the rest blocked with fireproof insulation. A nice fire would get the living room to >80°F and convection would help warm the rest of the house. The stove did stick out of the fireplace ~24" or so. Can't help you with the Seattle city code about flue pipe, though. | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 18:40 | history | edited | AdamO | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 13, 2022 at 18:32 | history | asked | AdamO | CC BY-SA 4.0 |