*edit* Installing a new wood burner, what do we do around it?
We’re installing this wood burner in the corner (unless convinced the stone wall would be better) and need help deciding what to do on the floor underneath it and surrounding it. The house is stacked stone on the walls behind the wood burner so nothing needs to be done to them for the heat. The heater in the corner is just a place holder for visualizing. The piece of flooring in front of the heater marks how far out the floor covering needs to come per building codes. The built in cabinet to the right of the “burner” is what we imagine to be wood storage, perhaps? (It used to be a door, now it’s a window + cabinet)
Let me hear those ideas! Should we build up a proper hearth? Flush-ish with the carpet? What colors/material? And should we expose the stone on the finished wall? Should we consider putting it in the center of the stone wall? No idea is too wild.
the last photo is the actual wood burner. It has blue-ish gray stone on all sides and the top.
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Sharon Fullen
2 years agoSammi Vance
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vinmarks
2 years ago
Angel 18432
2 years agoSammi Vance
2 years agolast modified: 2 years ago
acm
2 years agoSammie J
2 years ago
PROJoseph Corlett, LLC
2 years agoAngel 18432
2 years agoIf you google wood burning stove pictures there a lot of pictures that may give you
some ideas.
Attached are a couple.
If I may ask, why are you doing this?
vinmarks
2 years agoHere is what we did with ours. Having the stove elevated makes it much easier to load the stove. It also allows the stove to be seen easier from other rooms. The top of the hearth is poured cement. Our hearth had to be bigger due to the stove having both a front load door and a side load door. We do not store wood in the house. We have a rack right outside the sliding door to the right where the Christmas tree is. Whatever you use for the hearth be it tiles, stone, or brick the joints have to be filled to prevent embers from slipping through.
Your stove looks like a Hearthstone. Make sure to check corner installation clearances.
jrb451
2 years ago
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