i have a BuckStove fireplace insert with a metal chimney liner/pipe….it is chilly here in SE Ohio and i am afraid to start a fire for fear i will cook that bird and maybe (?) start a chimney fire…any bright ideas out there…how do i get rid of this bird?
we have a new home being built and its been framed in and left exposed in this nasty weather does the weather effect the plywood – fireplace insert etc ?
I have an unfinished basement and I am wondering if it would help to add insulation between the floor joists. Will this help any this winter or an I just wasting time and money. I heat with a furnace that is in the basement and supplement with a fireplace insert that is upstairs. Any ideas will help.
I have a fireplace insert, and there is vents on the top and bottom, and I can not keep my wood burning more than 3 hours, when I bought it, its said could burn wood for more than 9 hours…. help?
I also get black all over the glass, and I have to use a razor blade… that only takes about a hour once fire is going to get black… but I also want the wood to last longer. I have a vent not top and bottom, do I close off the bottom vent, and leave the damper open more?
We have a fireplace insert, breckwell P23I I believe. We had it installed in the fall with the expectation that it would heat the major living space of our home. The model says that it would heat 800 – 1200 square feet. Our house is a single story L shaped ranch that is only 1700 square feet. We expected the heat wouldn’t make it down the "L" portion of the house very well because of where the fireplace is located but we run the stove at a 3 or 4 level and after hours the house is still in the low 60′s. Yesterday for instance (and it was very cold outside…in the teens) I ran that on a level4 for five hours and it was only 63 degrees in the house. I wonder if we are losing heat up the chimney, maybe not using the damper correctly. We are using hardwood pellets. Is there a video that shows how to operate them effectively? what the flame should like for instance. Our thermostat (not a pellet stove thermostat, the one that triggers the furnace) is only 15 feet away from the stove, it seems that at the very least the area around the stove should be toasty warm. Any advice would be appreciated.
I was wondering would it be a good idea to take a big armoire and instead of clothes put a fireplace insert into it instead??
I was thinking of an electric insert with faux fire…
Hi, I live a in a ranch in the Northeast and recently purchased a Napoleon pellet stove insert that I plan to install in my living room fireplace. My hope is to save a great deal of $ over oil next winter. Can anyone let me know their experience using one? Unfortunately, my house does not have a really open floor plan being a 1956 ranch. Will this save me a great deal of $? Will I be able to use it as my main source of heat with my oil furnace as back-up? How many pellets will I probably need? Thanks for any advice. Oh how much will it cost to install about too? It is a fireplace insert.
When looking up the vent it seems open. Any idea why we are getting this smokey smoke throughout the house? What else can we try to do???? (It is not a fireplace insert.)
I want to use a wood stove instead of my fireplace insert (which doesn’t put out any heat when the power is out). A wood stove sales person said I needed 3 feet of vertical rise before going horizontally into my chimney with the pipe. I have the feeling she just wanted to sell me a fan-less insert for an extra 00 over the price of a stove. Any chance of running the pipe at an angle until it’s in the fireplace chimney instead of straight up, then horizontal?
We have a fireplace insert with those small firebricks. It’s pretty small and burns wood. The front is covered in a chainmail screen. When the dampener is open and I stick my head in there and look up, it seems like the whole unit is tapered into a 8" pipe that goes out the top two floors above and a little more above the roof line. However the dampener when it is open doesn’t go completely against the side as it is designed which seems like the smoke from half of the fire goes up there, and kinda has to wisk a bit down again to catch into the main stream to exit the house.
We recently picked up a load of cherry that may or may not be well seasoned. It sizzles which to me says it is probably a bit green still. Our last load didn’t smoke that much into the house, but this load, I am having serious issues with smoke coming into the house at the top of the fireplace like there is just too much smoke to exit.
Is there anything I can do? It’s pretty clean so that’s not the issue.
