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We got thrown a curve yesterday with our wood burning stove adventure. We had a stove guy over to check things out and he suggested that we shouldn't have a stove at all, but a fireplace insert which he would then build in with a new surround. Aaack! Sounds like too much change. It's not really what either of us wants to do. More and more, I'm leaning toward keeping the current stove for a while longer.
An insert could look quite nice built into your fireplace but it would be a completely different look.
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I thought that we would do an insert like that. But, my husband felt that you don't get the same amount of heat into the room, as you do with a hot cast-iron stove sitting there, because, well... you don't have a whole, hot, cast-iron stove sitting there.
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ReplyDeleteAlso... we can go off to bed leaving the stove burning, which we would never do with a fireplace.
ReplyDeletejean, I'm having a hard time accepting the closing-in of the fireplace. Plus they want to wire electricity in to operate the blower in the insert, another thing I'm not too keen on.
ReplyDeletejudy, I agree with Eliot. But then, I'm a husband, too. Must be a guy thing.
gosia, hurray!
franinoz, true. The insert would be like a stove, completely enclosed, but I'm not sure I'm ready for closing off our very large and decorative fireplace.