Renovating an old tiled stove

[Släktgården]

Hi! I was just wondering in general if you can build up a fireplace insert but dress it to look like a tiled stove? Maybe a bit of an odd question...

 

[Claes Sörmland]

If you find a wood stove that fits inside a tiled stove shell and it works with the installation instructions, then. Otherwise, there are ready-made faux tiled stoves that are essentially wood stoves.

 

[KnockOnWood]

Hello! Just wanted to generally ask if you can build up a masonry for a wood-burning stove (insert) but enclose it like a tiled stove?

There shouldn't be any problem.
In principle, you can build any "shell" around a stove insert.

If you find a wood-burning stove that fits into a tiled stove shell and it works with the installation instructions, then yes. Otherwise, there are ready-made fake tiled stoves that are basically wood-burning stoves.

What is a tiled stove shell?
If you're thinking of a real tiled stove, it's quite special with smoke channels that go up and down and up again inside.
But no one is inserting an insert into an old traditional tiled stove, and that's not what you meant either.

 

[Claes Sörmland]

Yes, exactly, a masonry stove has an interior in the form of smoke channels, but the shell can of course be built without this. I called it a "kakelugnsskal."

But it must be easier to buy a modern fake kakelugn if you're not going to have the real thing anyway.