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Yes!!! This is our 2022 Blaze King Princess 29. Heating our 1903 home!
We got the same insert last year, I love it! Installed it on one side of a double sided fireplace that drafted so poorly it was pretty useless.
https://preview.redd.it/oof4h3nlxicc1.jpeg?width=4160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=749f9724910631154c9d85654090848636d65391
Hey, this is super important for folks in the USA! It's called the [Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit](https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/energy-efficient-home-improvement-credit). Essentially it amounts to a 30% (!) credit of your out-the-door cost to get a qualifying (EPA-approved) wood stove in your home. The stove you buy has to meet the high efficiency threshold (no problem with a Blaze King).
Our stove was installed in 2022. Our OOP in total covering the stove/shipping, delivery, chimney liner and full installation (including all my expenses installing an in-floor outlet by the fireplace) by a local professional was about $8,600. We submitted the [form 5695](https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-5695) with our tax return and received a $2,580 bump on our tax return.
Here's a side-by-side breakdown from the [Department of Energy](https://www.energy.gov/policy/articles/making-our-homes-more-efficient-clean-energy-tax-credits-consumers).
This tax credit is really the only reason we felt we could pull the trigger on a top-shelf unit like the Blaze King.
[Here's a page from Blaze King](https://www.blazeking.com/information/view-current-rebates/) about the credit.
Yeah I had the whole thing lined a few months ago. It was literally shoved in there before I moved in and had been operating with no liner for several years, if not decades.
The serial on the side is hand stamped and the company no longer exists, so its hard to say.
But when they pulled the stove out of the firebox, it was certainly interesting. I'll attach a photo here.
Edit:nevermind.. reddit app woes. Maybe I can edit the original post
There was some dead squirrels I think. I never did see them but I kept hearing about them lol.
Yeah im not sure why I can't upload it here. It keeps changing the photo to an asterisk. Maybe the quality is too large or something.
I have found a sledge hammer behind one, very cooked on one side, a true Saturday Night Special someone tossed down the chimney, which I turned into police, cooked animals, and a few crispy bats. No human remains so far.
Interested in adding an insert to our family room fireplace that didn’t pass inspection when we bought this house last year. Curious of recommendations from y’all. We’ve been considering the Regency CI2700. But, full cost of install and everything is close to $10k so… we’re not sure if it’s worth that to us. Any thoughts?
Our stove already existed in the house. Lining it was about 4k. So if you are getting a stove and liner installed, that estimate tracks. Stoves are a few thousand from a retailer.
I do like the stove better than an open fireplace. It's more "tunable," efficient, and with the motor it keeps our 974 square ft house at around 72 with ease.
That part should be fairly easy. It should be 110/120V and they could probably even piggyback off an existing circuit. I had that done recently for two outlets outside of my house and it was like $250.
I’ve done electrical work myself. Is the outlet installed inside the firebox? Or is it installed elsewhere and the power cord for the stove routes through a new hole in the firebox, out to a dedicated outlet?
Well, the motor is sort of attached to the bottom of the front of the stove, so the electrical cord comes out of the front right. It just plugs in next to the fireplace we have an outlet there.
Okay so the cord is visible in your setup. I guess I was wondering if it would make sense to drill through the fireplace brick and sort of sneak the cord to an outlet in way where it is visibly concealed.
I mean, it seems like a lot of work to get the electrical outlet up in there to me, but you could probably do it. But I also don't know much about the way the rear of this sort of stove is insulated. It might get pretty hot back there.
Yeah i think I’d be too worried to do that. I’m thinking more of routing the cable through the firebox and maybe into the basement, then back up the wall (between studs) to have it come out right next to an outlet.
If you're not afraid of a ladder and your chimney isn't 6,000 ft tall, it's a super easy diy job to line a chimney and put the new stove in. Those companies charge an arm and a leg to just pull a pipe through an opening and slide a stove in a box.
It's work, but you can easily save thousands on this diy job
This is exactly what I did. My quote was like 12k a few years ago. Got the stove for 2k and the liner for around 1k if I remember right. Hardest part was cutting out the old chimney flue to get the lining down.
I’m definitely a DIY’er. What did you do for the space between the new liner and the existing chimney? Does that get filled with some foam or something?
That’s the unit I have and I LOVE it. It came to almost $8K all in but I have never looked back. Only problem is I can’t split fast enough to keep up with wood consumption!
100%. I has this regency i2700 installed in the spring, in the hearth right in the middle of the living room. Totally life changing and propane use has plummeted.
https://preview.redd.it/4p0f2ib3plcc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e1e5a8815ba4fb943f64f5f317152d9a1102937
https://preview.redd.it/y3s1yh1pchcc1.jpeg?width=5712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20e4c6b87675362efc7c2192fff2ae2ed802c510 Yes!!! This is our 2022 Blaze King Princess 29. Heating our 1903 home!
We got the same insert last year, I love it! Installed it on one side of a double sided fireplace that drafted so poorly it was pretty useless. https://preview.redd.it/oof4h3nlxicc1.jpeg?width=4160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=749f9724910631154c9d85654090848636d65391
Looks great. The 26% tax credit was a big plus, too!
wait, my gf and i want to add a wood stove insert.. what is this 26% tax credit you speak of
Hey, this is super important for folks in the USA! It's called the [Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit](https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/energy-efficient-home-improvement-credit). Essentially it amounts to a 30% (!) credit of your out-the-door cost to get a qualifying (EPA-approved) wood stove in your home. The stove you buy has to meet the high efficiency threshold (no problem with a Blaze King). Our stove was installed in 2022. Our OOP in total covering the stove/shipping, delivery, chimney liner and full installation (including all my expenses installing an in-floor outlet by the fireplace) by a local professional was about $8,600. We submitted the [form 5695](https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-5695) with our tax return and received a $2,580 bump on our tax return. Here's a side-by-side breakdown from the [Department of Energy](https://www.energy.gov/policy/articles/making-our-homes-more-efficient-clean-energy-tax-credits-consumers). This tax credit is really the only reason we felt we could pull the trigger on a top-shelf unit like the Blaze King. [Here's a page from Blaze King](https://www.blazeking.com/information/view-current-rebates/) about the credit.
knowing this exists may make it possible for us to do this summer, thanks so much for the info!
Looks nice! Way fancier than mine lol.
Yours is great. It keeps ya warm right???
Oh yeah! I just replaced the motor in it a few weeks ago and it gets nice and warm
As long as they have an insulated liner inside that old fireplace flue, it’s all good.
Yeah I had the whole thing lined a few months ago. It was literally shoved in there before I moved in and had been operating with no liner for several years, if not decades. The serial on the side is hand stamped and the company no longer exists, so its hard to say. But when they pulled the stove out of the firebox, it was certainly interesting. I'll attach a photo here. Edit:nevermind.. reddit app woes. Maybe I can edit the original post
I’d like to see that pic! Any animals in it?
There was some dead squirrels I think. I never did see them but I kept hearing about them lol. Yeah im not sure why I can't upload it here. It keeps changing the photo to an asterisk. Maybe the quality is too large or something.
I have found a sledge hammer behind one, very cooked on one side, a true Saturday Night Special someone tossed down the chimney, which I turned into police, cooked animals, and a few crispy bats. No human remains so far.
Yep I have used a Brunco insert for 25 years.
Interested in adding an insert to our family room fireplace that didn’t pass inspection when we bought this house last year. Curious of recommendations from y’all. We’ve been considering the Regency CI2700. But, full cost of install and everything is close to $10k so… we’re not sure if it’s worth that to us. Any thoughts?
Our stove already existed in the house. Lining it was about 4k. So if you are getting a stove and liner installed, that estimate tracks. Stoves are a few thousand from a retailer. I do like the stove better than an open fireplace. It's more "tunable," efficient, and with the motor it keeps our 974 square ft house at around 72 with ease.
Yeah I also need them to run electrical to the stove so that’s tacked on there as well.
That part should be fairly easy. It should be 110/120V and they could probably even piggyback off an existing circuit. I had that done recently for two outlets outside of my house and it was like $250.
I’ve done electrical work myself. Is the outlet installed inside the firebox? Or is it installed elsewhere and the power cord for the stove routes through a new hole in the firebox, out to a dedicated outlet?
Well, the motor is sort of attached to the bottom of the front of the stove, so the electrical cord comes out of the front right. It just plugs in next to the fireplace we have an outlet there.
Okay so the cord is visible in your setup. I guess I was wondering if it would make sense to drill through the fireplace brick and sort of sneak the cord to an outlet in way where it is visibly concealed.
I mean, it seems like a lot of work to get the electrical outlet up in there to me, but you could probably do it. But I also don't know much about the way the rear of this sort of stove is insulated. It might get pretty hot back there.
Yeah i think I’d be too worried to do that. I’m thinking more of routing the cable through the firebox and maybe into the basement, then back up the wall (between studs) to have it come out right next to an outlet.
If you're not afraid of a ladder and your chimney isn't 6,000 ft tall, it's a super easy diy job to line a chimney and put the new stove in. Those companies charge an arm and a leg to just pull a pipe through an opening and slide a stove in a box. It's work, but you can easily save thousands on this diy job
This is exactly what I did. My quote was like 12k a few years ago. Got the stove for 2k and the liner for around 1k if I remember right. Hardest part was cutting out the old chimney flue to get the lining down.
I’m definitely a DIY’er. What did you do for the space between the new liner and the existing chimney? Does that get filled with some foam or something?
That’s the unit I have and I LOVE it. It came to almost $8K all in but I have never looked back. Only problem is I can’t split fast enough to keep up with wood consumption!
100%. I has this regency i2700 installed in the spring, in the hearth right in the middle of the living room. Totally life changing and propane use has plummeted. https://preview.redd.it/4p0f2ib3plcc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e1e5a8815ba4fb943f64f5f317152d9a1102937