I removed a wood stove when I moved into our house.
It was the first thing I demanded be changed. The previous homeowner was really a history buff and liked the old timey vibe of a wood stove. He had it sitting on a stone pad centrally located in the kitchen. The gas furnace really vented up through the wood ceiling and out of the house. There was an addition put on the roof to make it more functional. How silly is that? I found out later the wood stove was really too small for the size of the home. It was entirely more of a decorative piece. I wasn’t going to split wood to have heating that didn’t entirely work. I hated that I couldn’t put a television anywhere. I also didn’t appreciate the crucial stone pad that stuck out. It was so much work removing the heater, despite the fact that I am delighted I did it. I had to enlist help on moving the cast iron stove and I sold the gas furnace for a guy’s hunting shack. I then smashed the stone pad, patched the veiling and had roofers remove the protrusion, but lastly I had to redo all the kitchen carpet since it was split around the woodstove. It was so much time, effort and money just to remove a gas furnace that didn’t entirely work; Now I just have a ductless heat pump for heating and it works perfectly fine. It is hidden in the closet and I have a crucial kitchen now. It was a good program by myself and others to remove it.