Can I Put A Wood Stove In My Gas Fireplace

In the irv2 discussion forums discussion about wood stove in your motorhome or trailer member 38special says having been in the fireplace and wood stove business for 35 years there is no way i would put one in an rv.

Can i put a wood stove in my gas fireplace.

A fireplace is already fireproof in a sense so you should be able to use it for a stove location with little work involved. If you live in an area where wood burning fireplaces are prohibited in new construction old existing fireplaces are probably grandfathered by law. A wood burning stove doesn t require a chimney to be installed or operated but will still need a way to exhaust the smoke and gases released by the fire in the form of a flue. The benefits of a wood stove for rvs still doesn t win over many people.

Wood burning appliances such as wood stoves cannot be converted to gas. You can normally convert any existing gas fireplace and have a wood burning stove as a gas fireplace replacement. It can be less hassle to install a wood stove in an existing fireplace because there s already a passageway to vent waste smoke and gases from your home. In some cases you can install a wood pellet stove directly into your gas fireplace to take advantage of these benefits.

Gas fireplaces are considered gas appliances not true fireplaces. A fireplace itself is not a very good conductor of heat so you may find that a stove is the best way of using a natural product without sacrificing warmth. There are however some considerations. However wood pellet stoves offer additional advantages.

In many homes gas fireplaces offer an option that avoids the mess and environmental impact of burning cord wood. A wood stove is a great way of warming a room and if you have a fireplace flue already then installing a wood stove onto this flue is not very difficult. What types of fireplaces can be converted. As such they are not regulated by the same safety codes as wood burning fireplaces and each model has its own requirements.

If you convert yours to gas you won t be able to change your mind later and start burning wood again although you may be allowed to use an epa certified wood stove or fireplace insert. The short answer is yes you can indeed put a wood burning stove into a fireplace. Yes you can convert an existing wood burning fireplace to gas but it must be that an existing wood burning fireplace. Some gas fireplaces are built with zero clearance fireboxes meaning you can put combustible materials right up to the sides front and bottom.