The Wood Stove - Report

 The wood stove isn't happening. :(   Not right now anyway.

The guys came out Monday morning, measured everything, talked about where we wanted the stove. We all decided leaving the two gas fireplaces alone and adding the stove to the corner where it could be easily removed and the gas fireplaces wouldn't have to be taken out was the least expensive option and probably the best because a future owner might not want to mess with a wood stove.

Vince and I had talked about it and we had a price in mind that we had decided we would do. 

The price quoted us for leaving the two fireplaces alone and putting in the black wood stove was very close to double what Vince and I had said we would pay. Really, they have to put one hole through a wall, and add the stovepipe. The pipe does have to go from the basement to the top of the main floor (basically two stories) and I think he said 8' above the roof but when Vince and I were making our calculations, we looked at the prices for double and triple walled stovepipe. 

In addition, and no matter who puts in the stove, we will have to move the radon pipe. Vince talked to the guy from Kansas City who installed our system and he will come and move the pipe. It will have to go through the deck, which isn't ideal but it's a big deck and if I had my way, I would have made it smaller when we re-did it several years ago so I'm not concerned about the pipe going through the deck.

There's a Mennonite guy who does some work for us and Vince is going to call him. I'm sure they install quite a few wood stoves in their community. They do such good work and are usually reasonable. 

So, while this isn't the way I had expected it to go, there's still hope.