How to Put in a Wood Stove Through a Side Wall

A wood stove is an effective way to reduce your heating bills, particularly if you own a woodlot and can cut your own firewood. However, if you don't put safety first when installing your wood stove, you could greatly increase your expenses by burning your house down. The area where the stove pipe passes through the wall, ceiling or roof is the most dangerous point of the installation if it isn't done properly.

Circular saw
Masonry cutting blade
Ceramic chimney thimble
Mortar
Trowel

Instructions

- 1
  Install a ceramic thimble in the wall if you are fitting the wood stove pipe into a masonry chimney. Cut a hole in the wall that is 24 inches larger in both width and height than the diameter of the thimble. This allows you 12 inches of clearance from any combustible materials on all sides of the thimble.
- 2
  Cut a round hole in the side of the chimney that is slightly larger than the thimble with a circular saw fitted with a masonry cutting blade. Spread mortar around the interior face of the hole and insert the thimble into it. Compress and pack the mortar and fill in any gaps with a trowel.
- 3
  Fill in the space around the thimble with non-flammable material, such as masonry or brick. You can finish this material to the surface of the wall and leave it exposed or cover it up with a non-flammable sheet material, such as concrete board.
- 4
  Fit the pipe of the wood stove into the interior end of the thimble.

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