Double sided fireplace
pgh_sean
| Posted in Energy Efficiency and Durability on
I just moved into a house that has a double sided fire place between the living room and the dining room. It’s an awesome feature but I can’t stand the inefficiency of a standard open fireplace. I’m in zone 6a with cold winters. I’d like to convert it an EPA certified wood stove and re-use the chimney. I’m having a hard time finding any wood stoves with glass on 2 sides.
I think an insert is an option too but I’m clueless about those.
Anyone else solve this problem before? Stove brand recommendations?
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Google turned this up: https://supremem.com/duet.php
I have no experience with the brand, or with wood stoves in general, just lending a hand to your google efforts :)
Man, that's a nice one. Appreciate the look. I think this qualifies as an insert? It would require a complete demo of the current fire place. I might be looking at that regardless.
I was hoping for some easy option that may not even exist! I was hoping it would go something like... drop a stove in the current opening, run venting down the current flu and somehow air seal around the new venting.
Sean,
There seem to be dozens of double sided stoves - but all in Britain and Australia - which makes me think it is the EPA rating that causes the difficulty here.
According to their ads, they are the only EPA rated double-sided wood stove. Probably because I'd imagine it's hard to engineer a firebox with that much glass to be very efficient.
RSF makes a Focus 250ST which is double sided.
http://rsf-fireplaces.com/en/focus-250-woodburning-fireplace
We have a Focus320 and like both the look and the wood heat. Building a new house in the next year and considered the 250 in a location that could work with double sided but we are leaning towards the 320 there as well.