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faux brick fireplace for wood stove

6 years ago

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I hope this is the right area for this. We are wanting to build a faux brick fire place for our woodstove. We have a two story 2500 square foot home (new construction, built it ourselves :) ) We also have a HUGE fisher stove that we love and actually does good job keeping our home warm. So here is what we want to do; place our woodstove in the center of our home (in our living room) and build a hearthwall behind it all the way up to the 2nd story ceiling, brick up the two sides also, creating a brick alcove, the front will be bricked and faced ala fireplace style. this brick box will have vents into the hall behind it, the bedroom on the left side, and a vent on the right, kitchen side. Lots of vents. we would have a traditional single wall woodstove chimney in this area, now through the second story..... would be a fireboard ceiling (still working on this) and then cover it with traditional floor. We have a triple wall woodstove chimney that would go through this ceiling and up through our cathedral 2nd story and then roof. What is wrong with this idea? What can be improved? Bad idea? Good idea? TY for your thoughts. Edit: Forgot some pretty important info! The alcove/faux fireplace area would be 6 feet wide, 5 feet deep, 9 foot tall. only half the woodstove wood (hahaha) be in the alcove, there would be a min. two foot clearance from the single wall chimney on the back side. There is a four foot hall behind this brick wall.

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Old Vermonter
6 years ago
Everything sounds good to me except one thing.

The Fisher stove.

Fisher used to be the Rolls Royce of woodstoves, but went out of business like the other 90% of stove makers when the EPA started regulating wood stoves for pollution.

If you're going to build a new home, and have all this done, why keep what's known today as a "smoke dragon"?

Today's modern stoves look better, are more efficient meaning less wood used, and burn clean.
Kristal
Original Author
6 years ago
I guess because at this point its a family heirloom. I grew up with it, we have used it, and it just works. I agree that it is MORE work then we would have to deal with a more efficient stove. My husband is not as fond of the beast as I am. He will be happy to hear another vote for an upgrade.
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Matthew Spencer: 1983 would put your stove in the non-EPA category - these regulations came in 1994. As the blank UL space indicates, the stove was also manufatured before UL listings were required. The label also shows it to be a stove made by a little known manufacturer. "Gold-n-Fire", assuming that's the full name, is certainly not among the best known wood stoves from the era of the '70's and '80's. Many manufacturers entered the wood stove market in the '70's. The better ones stayed while others pretty quickly went out of business. Yours seems to fall into the second category. You might try calling the number on the label, but seriously doubt it's still working. i would really urge you to reconsider putting this stove back into use. The metal plate seems to be a crude block off plate designed to improve the draft of the stove. After that, I would be willing to bet that the stove pipe just sticks up into the chimney. This is a non-code and decidedly risky installation. A safe installation today would require an insulated liner of the proper size within the chimney. If you really, really want to use the stove, at the very least have the stove and your chimney inspected by a certified chimney sweep. A good EPA insert similar to this one can be purchased for $1000 or slightly less. Trying to use the existing one with all its negatives, known and unknown, just doesn't make much sense.
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Do you want to do something like this? Personally, I hated the woodstove that my husband insisted on. The living room was blazing hot and the rest of the house wasn't. The natural direction of the air flow in my house went the opposite way of the main part of the house and the heat never reached the other rooms. Not to mention the mess from the ashes and having to haul wood. We kept a little fan on top that was activated by the heat and it never did a thing. Keeping it at the right temperature by constantly playing with the air intake was a hassle as well. You can get fireplace inserts that blow the heat back out into the room. Can you tell I don't like wood stoves??
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"For atmosphere you can’t beat an open fireplace..." That's true. I have a relative who just moved from a home with a wonderful real fireplace to another one with good fireplace as well. It threw out tons of heat; I had to move back. But yeah, Most heat is lost up the flue. Aside from stand alone wood stoves, there are also built in fireplaces that are just oversized glass door wood stoves that are almost as efficient. either of these 'glass door stoves' would require insulated flue pipe that IS expensive; the 'stoves' ain't cheap either. The flames in these stoves aren't natural and the viewing area is smaller than a classic fireplace, but the unusual flame shapes are still attractive and while less efficient, the doors may usually be left partially open to hear fire crackling etc while observation is in progress.
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Well, I can tell you that I already have a wood-burning fireplace with a TV on top, and two problems: heat and smoke from the fireplace endangers the TV, so we hardly start fires at all, and the TV ends up so high that it strains your neck. So, it's a bad idea on both those counts. I think what you have is actually adorable. With a wood-burning fireplace you end up with sparks and smoke more open to the air than what you have here with an enclosed stove. Indoor air quality in your home is a concern with open wood-burning fireplaces. I'd do more research before committing to change this lovely little nook you have.
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User
6 years ago
Can you keep the stove as a decoration? If you have a covered porch I can see it out there greeting guests that come over, or perhaps you have a corner in your new house where you could use it as decorative stand for photographs etc. That way you could keep the stove, but have an effecient heater for you home.

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