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Murphy
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# Posted: 22 Apr 2017 10:47
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Hey!

This is my first post....I was lurking for a while until I made the purchase...now my brain seems to be in perpetual cabin mode!
I will need advice....Ill try to take it one step at a time...so much to tackle.

My first issue I will ask for help with is the wood stove....if you call it that. Its a fireplace insert...placed in the middle of the room on its own...with a stack out the roof.
I have a traditional wood stove I want to put in...but the stack sizes are very different. The current pipe is a 12" double wall....and I have a new 6" stove. How can I go from 6" to 12" pipe...near the ceiling? Is there a reducer this size?...and does it have to be double walled also?

Ill try to add some pics also.

Great forum....glad to be a part of it!
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 22 Apr 2017 12:21
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Quoting: Murphy
now my brain seems to be in perpetual cabin mode!

Been there. Done that.

Murphy
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# Posted: 22 Apr 2017 16:53
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Some pics
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Bexeler
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# Posted: 22 Apr 2017 18:15
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That looks like a great place you have there. I know the feeling of perpetual cabin mode. My wife gets on me all the time about talking about the cabin too much. She just don't understand all the thoughts I have going on in my head that we can do at our place. Good luck with your place and welcome.

Gary O
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# Posted: 23 Apr 2017 00:45
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Two thoughts;

Great lookin' place

12"?! SHEEESH!
I'd start from scratch

and

welcome
to the wondrous illness of cabin fever (in reverse)

KabinKat
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# Posted: 23 Apr 2017 11:02
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Welcome,

I have also been a lurker for sometime!

Cabin mode > Most other things....

OwenChristensen
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# Posted: 23 Apr 2017 18:47
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Welcome, take all comments with a grain of salt, everyone's, even mine. Use the best logic you can. I would say you could run six inch all the way through inside the twelve. Some sort of flashing to keep the rain out. It should be sure safe.

Infamous Dave
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# Posted: 27 Apr 2017 22:37
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What part of MN?

Murphy
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# Posted: 28 Apr 2017 05:56
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Near Little Falls.....just past Randall

Infamous Dave
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# Posted: 13 May 2017 15:01
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Went through your area last weekend on our way to Lake Winnie.

don62
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2017 09:47
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Why not build a nice wood surround whats there? I like a fireplace over a wood stove because I like to watch the flames..

Ontario lakeside
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2017 10:52
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Ill second Gary, start from scratch, less work in the end.

OutdoorFanatic
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2017 19:59 - Edited by: OutdoorFanatic
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I dont see any reason why you cant stick a 6" or 8" if it will fit, right up inside the 12" pipe. Its done all the time when people put a pellet stove in their fire place the installer always drops a 4" exhaust pipe right down the chimney.

That said, I'm not a big fan of fireplaces. If it were my place I would stuff it with insulation, block it up and put a cook top woodstove right in front of it.

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