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.
Connect wood stove to fireplace.
As your stove will likely be a different shape and size to a traditional fire don t assume that it will still be suitable.
These stoves can be vented into chimneys constructed of masonry or a factory built metal system that s been designed tested and listed for use with wood burning appliances.
So if you want all the benefits of a wood stove as well as many placement options go with a stand alone unit and its recommended venting system.
Stove hearth and surround.
Capable of generating large amounts of heat a fireplace insert fits directly into an existing fireplace and attaches naturally to the chimney.
If connecting your wood stove to the flue above the fireplace then you must plug your chimney below the point of connection.
There are however some considerations.
Since 1984 national codes and standards have dictated that a connector pipe.
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.
Entry into a fireplace and chimney.
If you are exhausting through the fireplace then the entry to the fireplace must be sealed.
The size of the stove however must be right for both the fireplace and the chimney it uses.
Freestanding stoves and fireplace inserts.
When putting a wood burner in a traditional fireplace you need to follow the correct regulations when it comes to the hearth you use.
The chosen wood burning stoves could accommodate a stove pipe coming out of the top of the stove and so it was a fairly simple connection to the chimney liner.
Once the wood stoves were placed inside the existing fireplaces the flue liners had to be connected the stoves.
A fireplace is already fireproof in a sense so you should be able to use it for a stove location with little work involved.