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Post by Leanne » Fri. Oct. 14, 2022 4:27 pm

Help! I bought an Alaska Channing 111 (rear vent) from a friend last winter. Its still sitting in my living room. My house is old built in 1830. I have a fireplace in my living room. How do I hook it up into my fireplace? I'm 100 percent NOT doing direct vent or power vent. The fireplace is in good shape. I had it worked on this summer. New flues as well. Someone send help!


 
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Post by freetown fred » Fri. Oct. 14, 2022 6:49 pm

L, some pix of the fireplace opening would be real helpful.

 
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Post by Leanne » Sat. Oct. 15, 2022 8:44 am

Ok I added a photo of fireplace and outside picture of the chimney ...just in case.

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Post by waytomany?s » Sat. Oct. 15, 2022 9:09 am

There were a couple threads discussing how to do that. Use the search function. Essentially you just run the pipe up a ways past the chimney baffle and seal around it with some insulation. Rock wool or such. Do I need to mention CO detector etc?

 
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Post by Leanne » Sat. Oct. 15, 2022 1:05 pm

Yes, I have been spending days reading the threads. Thanks!

 
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Post by waytomany?s » Sat. Oct. 15, 2022 1:06 pm

Hopefully you can get it going soon , good luck!

 
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Post by freetown fred » Sat. Oct. 15, 2022 3:41 pm

Yep--keep us posted L---Remember, the only stupid questions are the one's we don't ask!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


 
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Post by Leanne » Thu. Oct. 20, 2022 6:41 pm

Ok ... so it turns out my fireplace has one of those old style heatilator. So, now what? Do I somehow pull that out? I have no idea what to do but I have one week of warm weather and then i'm totally screwed. I've been putting 5 gallons of kerosene daily in my oil tank this week to have some kind of heat..... filling my oil tank isn't an option right now so I've got to get this coal stove installed one way or another. Any ideas?
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Post by waytomany?s » Thu. Oct. 20, 2022 7:20 pm

Can you post pics of what you have? Finish filling out your profile, you may end up with someone close and willing to help. Kerosene here is $7/gallon. Use diesel, it's a little cheaper.

 
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Post by Rob R. » Thu. Oct. 20, 2022 7:21 pm

That shouldn't matter, even a heatilator style will have a flue opening and likely a damper at the top. If you want to install a coal stove in that fireplace, you will need to remove the damper at the flue entrance, and setup a stove pipe to go from your Alaska stove to that flue opening. Many people make a sheet metal adapter for the stove pipe to go into the flue.

Check out the Chubby stove manual in the link below, they have a section for installing with a fireplace.

https://chubbystove.com/operation-manual/

 
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Post by Leanne » Fri. Oct. 21, 2022 7:25 am

waytomany?s wrote:
Thu. Oct. 20, 2022 7:20 pm
Can you post pics of what you have? Finish filling out your profile, you may end up with someone close and willing to help. Kerosene here is $7/gallon. Use diesel, it's a little cheaper.
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Post by Leanne » Fri. Oct. 21, 2022 7:27 am

Rob R. wrote:
Thu. Oct. 20, 2022 7:21 pm
That shouldn't matter, even a heatilator style will have a flue opening and likely a damper at the top. If you want to install a coal stove in that fireplace, you will need to remove the damper at the flue entrance, and setup a stove pipe to go from your Alaska stove to that flue opening. Many people make a sheet metal adapter for the stove pipe to go into the flue.

Check out the Chubby stove manual in the link below, they have a section for installing with a fireplace.

https://chubbystove.com/operation-manual/
Thank you this is super helpful!

 
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Post by waytomany?s » Fri. Oct. 21, 2022 8:32 pm

Call Marshall s fuels in munnsville for prices on heating oil, they were cheapest around last I checked. I can't help you with cheaper coal, no one around here is reasonable at the moment.

 
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Post by Leanne » Fri. Dec. 09, 2022 7:17 am

So a man I work with thought he could get the pipes up into the chimney. I am nervous though to even fire up the stove. First of all, the pipes are not straight. They are at an angle and don't go up very far. It looks like instead of centered in the chimney the pipe is hitting the side. There is strong draft though. He attempted to block of the flue with some kind of homemade metal contraption but to be honest.....it definitely does not look legit. Any advice?

 
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Post by waytomany?s » Fri. Dec. 09, 2022 7:27 am

Any pictures?


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