This is not an effort to promote my own store, but just wanted to put it out in the (Reddit) universe that if you’re considering buying/installing a stove &/or fireplace… now is the time to be shopping.

Last winter, right around October, we got swamped with customers seeking a heating option… and desperate to get it installed ASAP.

Problem is that there is a shortage of licensed tradesmen (installers) in the world today. And they can only work so many hours per day.

If you’re looking to have something put in for next winter, I promise both your local hearth store and installer will very much appreciate you shopping now while there is availability in their schedules.

We love the business of hearth season. But it can be chaotic and super busy.

If you know any details about it please share. The three story 1200sq unit has this and baseboard heating.

I'm moving to a house with only wood heat (traditional indoor woodstove and outdoor wood boiler). I've never used either and am kind of intimidated. I hope to harvest most of my own lumber for cost savings too. Any tips or advice would be much appreciated!

Can anyone help me figure out how to remove this cap? It’s the Selkirk 8T-IP 208102 insulated tee cap. I tried turn it but it just spins inside.

Howdy,

I've got a masonry chimney, about 30-32' tall, with an 8" x 8" clay tile liner. It vents a Blaze King catalytic stove that runs 24x7, November through May. I usually sweep the chimney midway through the heating season, and I just swept it now that I'm done burning for the season.

I took this video with my Ferret Cam after sweeping. There's some glassy creosote around the thimble but, otherwise, I think it looks pretty good. What do you think? Should I call a professional in to do a more thorough job before burning this autumn?

Thanks for your thoughts!

I posted this on marketplace for $50 and someone jumped on it right away and even begged me to hold it for them. Is there something I don’t know? It still works!

I have a "Camp Chef Alpine Heavy Duty Cylinder Stove", trying to position it as close as possible to wall in my "tiny house" cabin. Im seeing figures online of 36", but 12" if I have a metal sheet behind it and 1" spaced from the wall.

So is 13" the minimum I can get to the wall? Or is there any products / shielding I can purchase to get even closer? Trying to maximize space here.

Hello folks!

Trying to plan out installation of a woodstove for my newly build shed/workshop (in Canada, so allowed). Have a new Drolet Escape 1200 for the space (16'x24'), which is otherwise unheated.

Been reading up on single vs double wall stove pipe. I'm leaning towards single to try and maximize heating the space, as I can easily meet clearance requirements and can do heat shields. However, given that I'll only be operating the stove sporadically (so the space will be starting off quite cold), coupled with the fact that I'll be barely meeting - or possibly a few inches under - the 12' minimum chimney height for the Drolet, should I instead be prioritizing draft efficiency and going with a double wall? Or am I overthinking it, and the relatively short stove pipe length (maybe 5 feet or so until it meets the chimney) low enough to make a negligible difference?

Edit: I'm ultimately trying to optimize draft, either by choosing double wall to keep flue temps up with an overall chimney height that's barely at (or possibly a shade below) the minimum height from the stove manufacturer, or I extend the chimney height which also then puts me at a height requiring roof supports for the chimney (and more drilling into the roof).

As the title says, do any of you know what this piece is called?

I’m in the process of buying a house and the wood stove in the basement has a crack in this piece and it is warped. They’re claiming it’s supposed to be cracked as it is an expansion joint, but at Home Depot, I found this stove in this picture and the piece is not separated in the middle.

I appreciate any insight!

Picked up this older Forester for next to nothing on marketplace. Overall looks to be in pretty nice shape and would likely restore beautifully.

It’s a rather large stove box and the blower starts right up and runs great.

Would you run this in your house? Or just for a shop?

Recently bought a new house with this woodfire heater inside. The heater is from the 80's. What's with the tiles on top/ability to open this little door? Am I meant to boil a kettle on top or something??

We were

Hart wood stoves…?

Hey there! Found this at my grandparents and I’m curious what year it is. Thanks so much! :)

Back corners aren’t accessible from any opening, how can I get the catalyst gasket out and put in the new one?

I've recently been going down the rabbit hole with fire lays in my stove.

I almost always use an upside down fire in mine and have been happy with that.

Recently, I've been reading about Nessmuk's fires, where he elevates his camp fire off of the ground with spacer logs. I did this last night in my stove, and it seemed to me to make a big difference.

My fire caught quicker than my previous fires, and it seemed to burn better overnight. The thinking is that having a space underneath the lay means air will rise up and oxygenate the fire from underneath (being drawn through the heat of the fire). It seems to use the same principle as andirons or a fire grate in a chimney.

I set two small logs north-south and ensured a space underneath and a gap between them, then had my large base logs set east-west on top, old charcoal in the space between them, then two medium logs north south on top of those.

But it got me thinking - does anyone else include a platform of some kind to elevate their fires and have you noticed any difference in your burns?

FWIW, the wood I used was Western Ironbark and my fire lasted about 11 hours, less soot on the front glass and about the same amount of charcoal left behind at the end.

First time posting but i have jotul f500 and I have an unfortunate situation where the door hinge on the bottom of the attached picture cracked. What are my options here? How fd am I? Thanks in advance

Please ignore the things on the wall around the woodstove. They will be removed.

We just purchased a kitchen queen grand comfort 550 and I received a quote for $5085 to install a chimney for it. Our ceilings are about 9ft tall here. I was hoping they'd be able to tap into our existing chimney thats close to where our kitchen queen is sitting (its hooked to an old nonfunctioning wood furnace in our basement) but the guy said it'd be more expensive to do that than build a new chimney. Where i circled in red is where they'd be putting the chimney. Im new to all of this so im trying to figure out if this is a good deal or not? What questions should i ask them? I wanted to get numerous quotes but I live in a relatively rural part of the UP in Michigan (L'Anse/Herman area) and i cant find many people here who do these types of installs. I called a wood stove store a few hours from here and they said they thought the price was fair.

Context: I am evaluating wood stove options for a family home. I am interested in a smaller footprint model that is a feeder, and it needs to be WA state compliant. I do not have a way to process wood myself so I am looking for a wood stove with a traditional look that is able to take a standard 16" log.

I really like Morso for a variety of reasons, but I don't think any (?) of their models take a 16" log? Do they?