Finally got my first wood stove, and it's my dream stove!

Beautiful, hope mine gets there one of these days.

 

If it hasn't been mentioned, get the "ash lip" since you are so close to the wood floor in front. It doesn't catch ashes but it deflects the radiant from the glass.

 

FINALLY INSTALLED!!!!

Finally got the stove pipe installed. Ended up using Class A stove pipe all of the way to the top after talking to a local wood stove installer. Our house was built in 1890 so the chimney didn't have ANY liner at all, so the flex pipe we were going to use wouldn't have had the required clearances to combustibles. I feel like it maybe would have worked but decided to be safe, rather then sorry. Had to move the stove back a little father then I was expecting, but I can still load wood and have access to the ash pan, and I can still open the top enough to get to the cat. If it ends up being a problem, I will just have to rear-vent, but we are going to try it for the winter and see how things go.

So far, heat hasn't kicked on since I got it going, 28 degrees outside and its a easy 65 in the house. Definitely going to need a blocking plate. Going to install that sometime this week. Didn't really even know about them until a few days ago, and just didn't have time or the energy tonight to get it done.

So far, getting great secondary burns. I am SO excited to finally have this thing rolling!

Pictures are from me starting it up. No secondary burns in the photos

 

Looks great paintblljnkie! I really like the pic with the room dark. Very cool!

Good decision. You will not regret having the peace of mind.

 

Beautiful stove and install!

 

Looks really great. We did the same with the pipe. Took out moblie home supplied pipe and installed Class "A" pipe. Pipe cost about as much as stove with me installing it, but I don't worry now. You will really enjoy not hearing the furnace coming on...I know I do...

 

Beautiful stove and good idea to be safe with the stove pipe. You are going to quickly become a wood junkie!

The PH has the ability to rear vent with all the same parts as a top vent, just positioned differently. High Performance Soapstone Hybrid Wood Stove

It looks like you've got enough of a hearth there to bring the stove out more into the room, which I think would actually provide better air flow around the stove and hence more heat to the room. Not to mention make it so much easier to load. Just a thought, not sure how much more heating you might gain, but it's such a pretty stove as to deserve the exposure.

 

Yeah, we have the parts in case we decide to rear vent instead. We really wanted it set back more into the stove, and the rear vent would have pushed it out about 6inches or so. If we don't see good heat from it (So far so good, but it's only gotten to 26* so far) then we may end up changing it. Will be installing the block plate first before we do that.

 

How much space, in feet, do you have in front of the stove, to the opposite wall?

I have a similar situation. Except, putting the stove out where I wanted it would have precluded opening both doors in the room- it's only about 9' wide. So I went with an insert. With a blower.

Unless you're in a similar situation, you will have a much better heating experience with the stove further out in the room. As it is now, you're heating your chimney, a giant heat sink. Even when you get the block off plate done. But, others have already told you this.

You're hobbling your new thoroughbred by burying back in the fireplace, and you'd probably get used to having it sticking out some more, very quickly.

 

Yeah. I get that, you make good points. Chimney is in the middle of the house, and the brick partially exposed in the bedrooms, I was kind of hoping the chimney WOULD heat up and radiate heat into those rooms (Chimney is in the middle of the house. Front of the chimney is in the living room, bedrooms are behind the chimney)

The main issue is that the hearth is very close to the doorway to the kitchen, bedroom, laundry and main entrance, and when it is pulled out, feels like it closes the room up quite a bit.

If it turns out that "form" makes the stove lose too much of its "function", then we will pull it out and rear vent it. Right now, we are going to see how this goes. First night, our little 1100 foot home was nice and warm though.

 

1100 sq ft with a PH? Man I’d be cooking in that scenario. You should have plenty of heat and you might have to open some windows.

 

1100sq ft. !! You can heat the neighborhood with that block of stone!

If you're getting the splits in it okay, then even with any wasted heat going up the chimney, you'll have enough heat but you might be wasting some wood. But your problem is space and WAF (wife acceptance factor) so we get that too.

If you have heat distribution problems you can get one or two of those little floor fans that will push the cold floor air toward the stove room and hence suck the warmer air at the ceiling back into those bedrooms.

Happy Burning. Keep sharing with us, we're not criticizing we're just making suggestions to help in any way we can.

 

Based on subsequent comments and your experience so far, sounds like you brought a howitzer to a knife fight. Which is awesome.

Block off plate and a blower, and it seems like you will be all set having both your favorite stove and a masonry heater without moving the stove into the room. Wish my chimney were interior like yours.

 

My first stove when I moved into our current house was a Pacific Energy T6. It was recessed into the fireplace opening and it had a fan mounted to push the heat out. It just didn’t have enough output to heat what we wanted. We switched to the Progress Hybrid and it sits out further but the output is worth it. I did put a 10 inch fan on the floor behind the stove to circulate the heat out from behind it.
As stated before, it sounds like you have enough stove for your house even if it is recessed. The functionality of the Progress has been above and beyond what I could ask for. It’s the best stove I’ve ever had. Enjoy the heat.

 

Heh, yeah, it's not a large house. I knew the stove was more then enough for the house right now, but we are planning on adding rooms in the attic so I wanted something that could "grow" with us. Luckily, that chimney goes right into to the attic, and the brick ends before it reaches the roof (Previous owners had taken the chimney down below the roofline so that it could be roofed over. So the chimney doesn't go through the roof, if that makes sense), so I have should have plenty of heat up there once we get the attic completed. For now though, blocking that sucker off so that the heat stays low.

Right now I have a small fan blowing air gently towards one side of the stove. Without the block plate I think I am also pushing more air up the chimney, but you can still feel the warm air getting pushed out the other side of the stove. I need to get some more small fans to push to the other rooms.

And no worries. I don't take it as criticism at all. I appreciate that suggestions and the help I've gotten so far.

Always prefer to be over-prepared then under prepared

I am loving it so far. Still working on learning it. Last night was the first time I finally got it burning over 600 degrees, but I think a lot of that has to do with the quality of my wood, which unfortunately I have to buy since I don't have good seasoned wood built up.

Working on getting those wood supplies built up now though!

 

Instead of having the fan setting very close to the stove (possibly pushing heat directly up your non block off plated chimney!) you might try setting the fan in a colder room with a direct line of site to the stove. As mentioned moving the cool dense air towards the hot light air to disperse it through the house seems to work best for many. Its working great at my place right now. 10" mini floor fan on the far side of the kitchen floor blowing across the kitchen floor, and living room floor to the stove. This allows me to keep my stove blowers turned off ( on my brand/model). Lengthening burn times as well.

Pretty well documented that blowing light weight hot air from near the stove/stove room, up against dense cold air areas of the house may not work as well.

I also noted some time ago with my setup that a fan pointed towards the rear of the stove can really shorten/affect burn times. Particularly if the stove has primary or secondary air intakes in the rear

All you can do is experiment. Part of the fun! Enjoy your new toy/tool.