Before you buy a fireplace insert make sure that the flashing will cover the gap.
Fireplace conversion to pellet stove.
Before you start trying to install the pellet fireplace you should check that it was originally intended to be used.
Step 4 finishing.
The size of your fireplace will determine the size of the stove you can install.
Add more pellets when needed.
The prometheus is a steel basket with its sides and bottom covered by thousands of honeycomb shaped airholes.
To sum it up i felt a wood burning stove insert had the most positives out of all of my options and i thought about this for a solid year.
A pellet fireplace is formed of a firebox that uses pellets as fuel.
Check stove sizes as well as heat ratings to see if your fireplace is large enough to contain a stove that will produce adequate heat for the room.
Several reasons and i will discuss them all below.
Step 2 remove the gas fireplace.
Step 1 check the fireplace.
Pellet stove inserts come with a flashing assembly to cover the space between the edge of the appliance and the opening of the fireplace.
Scoop the hot pellets to one side with a metal scoop add new pellets next to the hot pellets.
How to convert a gas fireplace to a pellet fireplace.
The fireplace division of napoleon manufactures gas and electric fireplaces wood burning fireplaces gas wood stoves.
This means that the tile stonework and base for the fireplace can support an appropriately sized pellet stove.
Preparing the fireplace opening.
Convert to a gas fireplace.
Burning pellets used to require a pellet stove but new hampshire based energex has created an add on product called prometheus that allows homeowners to convert any fireplace or wood burning stove to pellets.
This means that converting a wood burning fireplace into a pellet fireplace is very easy.
There are also larger pellet fueled furnaces that replace or supplement traditional fossil fuel burning furnaces pellet stoves have heating capacities ranging from 8 000 to 90 000 british thermal units btu per hour.
Simply place the basket in your wood stove fill it with wood pellets light the pellets with gel firestarter.
The flashing acts as a frame around the fireplace insert.
Like gas fireplaces pellet stoves can be freestanding or fireplace inserts.
Step 3 install the pellet fireplace.
The hot pellets will ignite the new pellets.
Convert to a wood burning stove insert what i did so why did i opt for option 5.