Can I Put A Wood Stove In My Prefab Fireplace

One of the biggest problems that homeowners run into with prefabricated fireplaces is the wood inside the walls that is only a few inches away from their fireplace then adding any old insert will not always meet the clearance requirements.

Can i put a wood stove in my prefab fireplace.

The short answer is yes you can indeed put a wood burning stove into a fireplace. Unlike factory built fireplaces a wood stove insert is not designed to be installed into a framed wall on its own. A fireplace is already fireproof in a sense so you should be able to use it for a stove location with little work involved. There are however some considerations.

A wood stove is a great way of warming a room and if you have a fireplace flue already then installing a wood stove onto this flue is not very difficult. An outer frame called a surround helps cover the gap between the edges of the insert and the fireplace. A wood burning fireplace insert must be used in a properly rated manufactured fireplace or masonry fireplace. A wood stove insert typically vents through an exhaust flue opening 6 in diameter example only some stoves may use an 8 flue which is 28 sq.

O uter d iameter. Eesuper chimneys 629 chimneys designed for use with wood stoves and wood burning appliances. The size of the stove however must be right for both the fireplace and the chimney it uses. A fireplace flue is built at a minimum by code with a ceramic flue tile that is 13 x 13 o d.

A fireplace itself is not a very good conductor of heat so you may find that a stove is the best way of using a natural product without sacrificing warmth.