Wood Stove Installation Services

Many homeowners concerned about rising home heating costs purchase wood stoves to reduce heating bills. Adding a wood stove to a house must be undertaken properly to ensure a safe installation. A wood stove is unlike any other device presently in a modern home.

A wood stove regularly has surface temperatures over 400 degrees F. The interior stove temperatures are over 1,000 degrees F, and if a chimney fire occurs, temperatures over 2,000 degrees F are possible. Obviously, a device that can achieve such high temperatures must be treated with respect, and installed, operated and maintained properly to ensure the device does not pose any hazard in the home.

Wood Stove Installation

1. Adding a wood stove to a house must be undertaken properly to ensure a safe installation.
2. Install a stove with adequate clearance from any combustible surfaces, including floors, walls or furniture.
3. Any chimney must have adequate capacity, the correct height, proper location, proper clearance from combustibles and proper mechanical support to be safe.
4. When an efficient airtight stove is selected and installed with a proper chimney, the efficiency and safety of the stove operation is largely dependent on the skill of the operator.
5. The type of wood also can affect stove operation.
6. A wood stove requires regular maintenance: proper cleaning of the chimney to remove creosote deposits, regular inspection of the installation, and handling of ashes.

The Firebird always recommends having your wood stove professionally installed. This is to ensure the stove & chimney pipe has adequate clearances to combustible materials, and the chimney is properly installed. Proper installation of the chimney ensures the wood stove can operate and perform to its optimal operation. Many homeowners’ insurance companies require professional installers to install the wood stove. Most wood stove manufacturers require “certified professional installers” to install their products, if someone who is not a professional installer installs the wood stove it can void the warranty in some cases.

Our professional installation team will help your project run smoothly from start to finish. We will project manage and facilitate everything needed to make sure your wood stove is installed and operating correctly. Our installation team is GB-98 licensed, MM-1, MM-2 and MM-3. We are also factory certified by our manufacturers to install their products.