It's the off-season so I'm allowed to ask dumb questions... Builders - wood burning fireplace chimne

This is what is in the new house. 44 Elite | Made in America | Fireplace Xtrordinair

Basically, it has a secondary burn catalyst similar to the catalytic converter in your car. Once you get the cat up to temperature you shut the bypass for the flue and all the exiting air from the firebox has to pass through the catalyst. That takes unburned gases and smoke and burn s them off increasing the temps of the exiting air. Goes into the front of the catalyst at 5 to 600 degrees and exits that back somewhere north off 900 or so. Then you can choke off the intake air to the firebox and the thing will slow burn above 600 degrees in the box for 3 to 4 hours with a normal load of wood. If you stuff the firebox, you can get 5 to 6 and still have some ripping hot coals when you wake up in the morning. When the catalyst is doing its job there is no evidence of a fire exiting the chimney. Ours is set up to pull air from the basement to pass around the outside of the firebox and blow it into the living room. The heat in the house never kicks on when I am running the fireplace. I don't even think about lighting it until it is going to be below 40 outside. It's way better than an open hole to the outside air path of a traditional open front fireplace.

Downsides are you can't really burn a bunch of trash paper or anything when getting it started as the paper ash can plug the catalyst. I haven't had a real issue with that, but the replacement catalyst is just like a car. A little pricey to replace when they fail, and they do if you abuse them.

 

Same one I have

 

Negative.....

 

I realize you’re in Montana and there’s trees aplenty, but if you have a source for wood pellets, consider a pellet stove instead of a wood stove…much cleaner burn and you don’t have to handle the fuel/wood as often from the time it becomes fuel to burn. I broke it down, and if I had gotten a wood stove in my fireplace for an insert, I would have had to touch each piece of wood no less than 5 times before I burned it..plus maybe risk bringing pests in the house from the wood pile….pellet stove..I got a ton of pellets on a pallet in my basement…I grab a bag, slide it open, pour them into the hopper. I’ve carried that bag from my truck to my house and to the hopper….touched it twice….much cleaner burn with very little ash. Shut it down to clean things out once a week, chip the clinkers that form in the burn pot and fire it back up.

 

Yes, run the pipe up to the ceiling, then a "Y" or "T", and have 2 exits in the ceiling. This maintains symmetry, and eases the exit through the ceiling.

 

Too late, not reading full thread. House have a basement? Put in basement and cut in floor registers so heat can come upstairs.

Or do and outside forced air wood burner. I wouldn’t drop it infront of that window.

 

Dont do a corner unit, it messes up the symmetry of the room, and makes it difficult for furniture (depending on room size). Our house had a corner wood burner (Vermont Iron works Elm, stove) when we bought it in 97. Although we love the heat, it really limits us to furniture layouts, eating up 2 walls of space in the corner. This is due to us having a small 1100 sq ft ranch style home. Also... They are messy, the dirt, bark, saw dust, ash, dust etc... is a never ending cleaning prospect. Make your chimney pipe and top easy access, and buy a good brush and pole set up, and clean it regularly. Creosote builds up faster than you might think. I clean ours every 4-8 weeks depending on the moisture content of the wood we are burning, just to be safe. Our exit pipe is just about 6' from the roof line, I can get up on the roof when there is no snow on it with the brush, and a phillips screwdriver, and be done in about 30-60 seconds. If your pipe goes through a wall instead of a straight through cleaning like a gun barrel, your cleaning will be way more difficult with a bend, or angle in the pipe layout. Too bad when they built the house, they didnt put a stone fireplace in the spot you want the burner. With the wood interior stone, and the mountain view, now you have a centerpiece to draw you to that room. I do envy that view brother. Ski

 

A Broome level baller would just burn the damn house down and build another one around a woodstove.

 

Do you want this for the heat or the ambiance?

 

You can always spot the folks who reply without reading the thread.

 

Along with the ones who don't really know construction or remodeling.

 

I get the attraction of pellets. They are efficient. But I could care less about efficiency... I'm after visual appeal. I really want something I can leave the door open and listen to the pops and crackles, but from what I understand, woodburning fireplaces won't operate that way.

 

Once it arrives, I can stage it there and see how I feel about that placement. Can always move it to another wall.

 

I find my pellet insert pleasing to watch. I don’t think modern pellet or wood stoves work with the door open. Mine has a fan that shuts off when the door opens. If you see it in full burn, it makes sense. The flames are flying up the metal internal grate/grid.

 

I put a vintage woodstove in my cabin for this very reason, but inspections were not an issue. I had to put it in an exterior corner, but I think placing yours in the center of your window will actually enhance your view.

 

I like that plan. Print a picture of a fire, place it in the door, sprinkle some ashes and dirt on the floor in front, put a couple feet of pipe in the top, and see how you feel about it in a week or two

 

I thought about buying an old vintage one, like a Vermont Castings, but they look a bit too rustic for my taste, and they require a large base underneath, and quite a bit of separation to the wall behind. I've been reading too much Architectural Digest I guess.

 

Already planning on an iPad with a fireplace YT vid playing

 

Don't forget to sprinkle the dirt. That's just a fact of having/using a fireplace

 

His ex might not like the dirt on the floor.




In fact, she will just take half of it.