Ripping out a gas fireplace, putting in a wood stove.

pic's caption could read....

"With this stove, we should have less wood to stack-according to Dad anyway"

Such a short chimney....such a warm day.....geeze, its a wonder you got that thing to draft at all! Hasta be the wood!!

 

You did a great job with that siding work, all the lines line up great!.

 

My kid wears boots like that 365 days a year. Sometimes he even wants to sleep in them.
Construction looks well worth the effort

 

Well...I couldn't close the door without killing it

 

I got the hearth done today...applied the sealer after quite a fiasco over the weekend. My goal was to darken the color of the naked concrete just a little, so I went with some semi-transparent concrete dye from Behr at Home Depot. Not sure what happened, but the "Industrial Grey" color came out like damm periwinkle. I was torn between wanting the project done already and just leaving it that color, or sanding it all down and starting over...the more I looked at it, the more I realized I couldn't stare at that ugly a$$ color every night from the sofa. I grabbed some 60 grit for the orbital sander and went to work. The result was tolerable after I applied the sealer...the darker bluish color remained in the areas that were a little more porous, and the rest sanded clean. It actually looks pretty organic now, so I guess I can live with it.

 

Well, FWIW, looks great from here!

 

Looks better than solid color

 

If you had not said anything...I would have thought....
....wow....cool finish. Wonder how he did that?

 

I had about an hour this afternoon between getting home from work and my daughter's volleyball game, so I figured I'd throw on the fan kit and side shields to prepare for putting the stove on the hearth this evening...like everything else with this project, there was no easy win to be had. I opened the fan kit box to find that it was wired a$$ backward. The kit comes in two pieces that mount into the convection deck of the back of the stove, and come with a shroud that acts as a sort of plenum to redirect the heat into the room with the help of the fans. The power cord enters the fan housing from one side, the hot lead wires into a potentiometer, the continues to the first fan's transformer, out the housing, and on to the second fan's housing, with about a foot of cord in between the two.

Now, the inboard edge of each of the fan housings is scalloped to contour to the back of the stove, and the outboard edge is straight, since the outboard side of the back of the stove is straight. Some knucklehead wired it up so the scalloped edge of each housing was oriented toward the outboard side, which of course meant it could not mount to the stove. And of course there wasn't enough slack in the wire between the two pieces to just swap them to the opposite sides. Yaay, a bonus project!

I tell you what...



After the game, I disassembled everything, unfvcked the wiring, and got the kit/side shields installed.

Let's recap: so far, since I unpacked this stove, I discovered the door was missing, one of the four feet was missing a bolt (another unscheduled Home Depot trip), and the fan kit was wired backward. So far, I'm not super impressed with the QC coming out of the BK facility....hopefully that's the last of the "surprises".

In other news, I did get the stove on the hearth at least:

 

...but, in the process, you learn the intricacies of your stove.
Never know when, down the road, what that knowledge will do for you.

PITA now, benefits TBD.

 

Coming together nicely. That looks great.

 

Haha...I'd like to take a break from "learning" for a while.

 

"Liked" the stove sitting on the hearth, not all the headaches.
When I put my 1400i in I switched the cord from the left to the right...getting those cord restraint deals apart, where the cord enters the housing, without destroying things was a bear! And it looks like you got to play with 2 of them!

 

So how did you end up getting it in, across the floor, and up on the hearth then?

 

The ol' sling maneuver that pro movers use...I doubled up a nylon tow strap,put a knot in it, and then my son and I manhandled the thing into place. I'm the one who's head looks like it's about to explode. That thing is HEAVY!

 

Nice!
I've tried that method once...worked well for me too. I usually have to figure out how to move things by myself though.

 

When my Madison went in, I removed the heat shields, the firebrick, the door and my brother-in-law wheeled it in on a nice dolly that he has with nice pneumatic wheels. I did not even break a sweat

 

Man, what's the trick to getting this telescoping stove pipe to slip together? I got the top piece inserted into the bottom, but it doesn't seem to want to go any further than that.

 

What brand is it? I had no issues with Selkirk...

 

Ventis (Olympia)...turns out I had the pieces oriented wrong. In my defense, there's exactly zero documentation out there.