I started the demo of the POS ZC fireplace in my house last week Friday. Didn't work Friday because of the 10+ inches of snow Thursday PM and early Friday AM. Here's some pix. There was some real fine Polish-American engineering done in this install!!!

What a mess... :rolleyes:I'm curious to see your new stove jammed in there...

What a mess... I'm curious to see your new stove jammed in there...

Mike; it's not gonna be "jammed" in the opening you see.. The hole in the wall you see from the existing unit will be reframed, insulated, sheetrocked and cemented boarded over for my stove install. The floor will get essentially the same treatment. My future stove will sit on a hearth with a back wall surround essentially in front of what you're looking at now. The chimney pipe will be exiting the room vertically from the stove. I guess I wasn't clear on that before. For sure now I have to wait for the weather to break. There's no more screws to take out from the inside!!!!! Once the weather breaks, I'm gonna tear into the chase that's in the garage, so I can remove the fireplace unit. A couple more pix without the glass doors and refractory panels in the box.....................don't know why they're funky colored though??!!

Took the metal box in a box out today, along with 3/4 of the metal chimney. Here's some pix.

You know what could be really neat? A family friend has his fireplace made to be accessed from both sides. One side of the fireplace is accessed from the living room, the other side is the kitchen. I think its a really cool idea!Also, where do you live? Is that not a caribou on your wall?

Since you this backs up to your garage... what I wanted to do at my ex's place... (I moved out first, her loss)... I put a nice insert into her stone fireplace. The wall to the right, was an outside wall to the breezeway, garage beyond. What I wanted to do was build cabinette doors in the inside wall. On the outside, breezeway (your garage) build an insulated box with outside doors, so the wood box could be filled from the outside... without lugging wood through the house & w/o fanning the outside door. I saw it done somewhere. I know I saw one that opened into a cellar stairwell at my aunt's house... Just a thought...Russ

Had it framed for a while now, but with the mild weather we've had.......there was no urgency to "git 'er done"!!!! Anyhow, bought some drywall and some insulation, and closed her up. The only pix I took were from the inside of the house. It'll have to do for now............Here's the pix.