Anyone have a freestanding woodstove?

[Linsay2231]

We are removing an old chimney from the middle of our living room and replacing it with a wood stove. I am having trouble deciding what kind of hearth to use in the middle of a room! there will be lots of room around it, if anyone has any advice, or pictures of hearths that are in the middle of a room I would love to hear/see! Thank you!

[Helena]

Consider putting the stove against the wall with a brick wall. Is there a reason you want it in the middle of the room. I would think that it would take up a lot of living area. We have 2 stoves upstairs. One in the kitchen with the brick wall and the same in the living room. Out about 10 inches or so and with air space behind the bricks and at the top. Good Luck with your decisions..

[VT Chicklit]

I have a wood stove that sits in front of my brick chimney which is in the center of what is an open floor plan house.The chimney goes up from the basement through the first floor and the open area that is in front of the second floor loft. The hearth that we have is a man made slate product that came in 2 foot squares that are aproxamately 4 or 5 inches thick. The masons that built our chimney used 4 of these slate squares with a fire retardent/fire proof grout. In our log home, it looks good. I would provide pix but the camera is broken. Maybe Santa will solve this problem for Christmas.

[rhaige9]

Here is ours. It's not real rock. Does a great job. They did the hearth and the backing all in a few hours. The stove is an oldie prototype that we picked up cheap. It actually puts out alot of heat more than I need.

[ET1 SS]

Our stove is in the middle of the room with a stovepipe going straight up.

No hearth, no heat shield around it at all.

[SFM in KY]

I don't have a middle of the room wood stove but friends of mine did in MT. They simply had the stovepipe going straight up through the roof and a firebrick platform all the way around the stove.

[ET1 SS]

Oops I forgot to mention. Before I set the woodstove in place, I laid down four 1/2s, each 10 foot long, in a square on the floor. Then I poured concrete in that square. It is about 3/4" thick and it is stained black. So I have a fire-proof 'pad' about 10' by 10' on which our woodstove sits.

[7thswan]

I put down cement board and tiled over it.

[Linsay2231]

We are putting it where an old chimney goes right now...it is in the middle of a room...but off to one side of our HUGE living room in an area we don't even use anyway :-) not really in the way of anything....here is the chimney that is coming out...
A pic before we removed the wood surrounding it...


And a pic of what it looks like now, soon the whole chimney (and supporting beam) will be gone and just the woodstove with a pipe going strait up will be in its place :-)



I also decided on a hearth...Here is a picture identical to what I ordered. The Yoder Original Edge in Nutmeg with Filagree Inlay. Shown with matching 6” pedestal, which I also ordered. I hate spending $$ so this was a huge treat my myself, I am so excited! Here is the hearth...


Edited to say that as soon as the chimney comes out, the terrible pink carpet comes out too...and under it is beautiful cherry flooring :-)

[7thswan]

Very nice. I had told my neighbor about the stone place I know of when he was putting in his stove. He went and they had an order that someone didn't pick- up,of some short stone pillars. He got them and a nice slab of granite. Put the pillars in with the granite on top and the stove on top of that. It makes it easer to fill for them as they are older.

[Use Less]

We have ours on a special cement board from the stove store. The stove in the middle of a smallish room is not so convenient, though. Some day I may get brick, stone or other protective material on the wall and move the stove back some.