Expert: James Ball - 10/21/2008

Question
can you tell me the difference between a wood stove for a manufactured home and a wood stove made for a stick home?? besides the price!! and the fact you need to use it with the pedestal and not the legs, and i know we dont need the stove bolted down as we are on a foundation, we found the pipe that is recomended UL-103HT but that poses a problem it is a 6" liner but with the insulation and all the total w is 8 inches (same size as chimney pipe already in there, so i need to find out if the old chimney pipe can come out (and how would you do that?) so that the UL-103HT can be installed in there, thank you for answering my question.  

Answer
Hello Dee, if I understand you correctly you have a "pre-fab" manufactured chimney,  and you want to install a wood stove into that fireplace chimney, in some cases you can (both units must be listed to work together) if they are not you can not. I would have a local Certified Chimney Sweep (www.csia.org, there you can look up by zip code to find one near you) take a first hand look at what you have and talk to your local wood stove store.
hope this helped
James Ball