So, I am seriously looking at gutting my living room, removing the fireplace and replacing with a wood burning stove.
Question one.
Have I lost my marbles? We don’t use the fire place. It’s never been serviced and to be frank, it would just be for the “look and feel” of a fire. It’s totally inefficient.
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What does this do to the resell value of the house? I expect to get a very nice model. Not just something that will heat but something that adds to the overall attractiveness/value of the home.
Question next
WHAT DO I LOOK AT????????
I want efficiency because I want to use it a lot to heat the house instead of using electricity. I don’t want to spend scads of money on wood, and in the end, end up with a bigger bill because of it.
I will be heating about 1000 sq feet (bed rooms are on the other side of the house and not likely to benefit, but kitchen, dining room and living room are all pretty open and the largest part of the house.
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WELL, I'm not the chimney Sweep, but from experience, my husband and I bought an older house, years ago, and the chimney stuck out in the room, (not a fireplace) and we decided it had to go, so we tore it out.
There might be a better way to go about it, but we just took sledge hammers and went at it. That was the dirtiest job I ever seen. Good thing that we were going to replace the floors and just about everything, because everything was black as coal. It's a good thing the we weren't living there.
If I had an unusable fireplace, I believe that I would buy one of those real nice fireplace insert stoves. And if you decided to sell your house, someone might want to renovate the fireplace.
WELL, I'm not the chimney Sweep, but from experience, my husband and I bought an older house, years ago, and the chimney stuck out in the room, (not a fireplace) and we decided it had to go, so we tore it out.
There might be a better way to go about it, but we just took sledge hammers and went at it. That was the dirtiest job I ever seen. Good thing that we were going to replace the floors and just about everything, because everything was black as coal. It's a good thing the we weren't living there.
Please tell me you've got video! That must have been something to see! :loo
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If the fireplace is in good condition one option would be to put in a fireplace insert. Lopi and Jotul are good choices. You can research them on the internet. You would probably want a dealer to come and look at your fireplace to determine which models fit. They are very efficient and put out a lot of heat. I prefer free standing wood stoves though to the inserts. They have much more radiant surface to heat the room and therefore don't require circulating fans to disperse the heat. Fireplace inserts require fans to circulate the heat. Also some stoves have ash drawers to make removing ashes easy. Fireplace inserts don't have ash drawers. Hope that helps.
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If the fireplace is in good condition one option would be to put in a fireplace insert. Lopi and Jotul are good choices. You can research them on the internet. You would probably want a dealer to come and look at your fireplace to determine which models fit. They are very efficient and put out a lot of heat. I prefer free standing wood stoves though to the inserts. They have much more radiant surface to heat the room and therefore don't require circulating fans to disperse the heat. Fireplace inserts require fans to circulate the heat. Also some stoves have ash drawers to make removing ashes easy. Fireplace inserts don't have ash drawers. Hope that helps.
See a big part of my reasoning is the fireplace itself is just not attractive and is more of a inconvienience than it is a part of the space.
it was almost an afterthought. kind of "oh no, we forgot the fireplace so lets just build it into the room" kind of thing.
I am pretty much set on the idea of knocking the whole thing down and putting in a stove.
so for stoves, what do you like? nice, attractive and value adding while being a useful item to heat the house?
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