DIY Wood Stove HEARTH in a Mobile Home

DIY HEARTH INSTALL IN A MOBILE HOME. See below for materials used.
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Pavers: www.homedepot.com/p/12-in-x-1...
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Wood Trim: www.homedepot.com/p/1-in-x-8-...
Multi Purpose Screws: www.lowes.com/pd/Power-Pro-On...
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Jason and Lorraine. In 2016 we sold most of our belongings and left the city in southern California to start a small homestead in the mountains of North Carolina. We left the city in search for a more minimal and intentional life. We became passionate about growing our own food and knowing what exactly is in our food after I (Jason) became diagnosed with cancer. Now 8 years in remission we as a family are on a journey to live our passions.
We document our life on KZbin videos to inspire others to get out of their comfort zone and not be afraid of change. We started our own online general store where we have available the things we make and use in real life. Thank you for following us on this incredible life changing journey!

[@marilynpena3256]

2 yrs. later, I'm wanting, now, to install a wood stove in my single wide mobile. I've watched quite a few videos so far and am researching til I'm blue in the face. I must say, your video is THE BEST ONE. The sound level is perfect. You get right to the point of what you are doing without a lot of other distracting yapping. Your ideas are great and you make it look so easy. It flows. I want to thank you for the vid with the simple, complete instruction and your pleasant, easy-to-follow delivery. Great video!

[@robd1103]

I’m wanting to do this in my home soon! I appreciate the minimal approach. Cant wait for part 2!

[@2012spacetraveler]

Love the straight forwardness and simplicity, everyone i know always wants to so much work in doing such a thing..

[@jamesmaison9256]

Fantastic job. I just sat through 10 other videos that were not what I wanted, yours is exactly right. Thank you

[@jimnorlem6802]

Outstanding presentation Jason !

[@reneep9968]

That’s so smart to use concrete pavers and that adhesive. It looks so good! Blessings...

[@Skaterdon77]

Looks great, Jason! Looking forward to part 2.

[@maryjemisonMaryjay1936]

Love the neatness of this room absolutely beautiful.

[@sunflowersusan3696]

I'm impressed with the detail you do this.

[@mommacobba]

Very minimally nice...simple...clean....LOVE it!!

[@islandhomesteader]

Nice clean install, can't wait to see the next part!

[@AliCT814]

Love your minimalist style!

[@mazamike]

Following your DIY this week, dig the jazz tunes

[@jennyduncan5799]

Love it! Looking forward to how easy and often it needs cleaning.

[@mikestone9129]

Great job, Simple, clean and effective. Looks nice.

[@phillully4472]

Jason, nice looking wood stove! in a single wide mobile home that should make it super toasty in there this winter. hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year too!

[@madammim694]

so economical, we have looked at so many ideas and i just want to keep it simple now, perfect!

[@nutmegknoll]

Very nice! We used stone and adhesive on our hearth. But our next homestead definitely using pavers. Thanks for the info.

[@BamaRushandLilMan]

Not only informative but very well edited. Great Video.

[@GreenAcreHomestead]

I am very much looking forward to the install video. The "unknown" has kept me from jumping onto installing the same exact stove in our home (also a single wide). My brother has that stove in his double wide for a few years and it's fantastic. He also had no issues with keeping his home owner's insurance with the stove -- it's approved for mobile home use.

[@SowtheLand]

that is so good to hear! thanks for sharing that!

[@GreenAcreHomestead]

@@SowtheLand If you're looking for an insurer (or if your current provider gives you a hassle over it), I have a great local guy I would highly recommend. He's between where you guys are and where we are (physical locale). Just let me know and I can DM/email it to ya. See you around!

[@MichaelBrowns]

Nice, looking forward to part 2. God bless!

[@dustinh90]

Good looking simple hearth👍🏻 Always enjoy your videos!

[@SowtheLand]

Thank you Dustin! Much appreciated!

[@AlmostHomestead]

Looks great. Really like that little wood stove.

[@salvatorejack6894]

This is great thanks mate. Companies tell you you must have this that the other for a hearth to meet requirements but they’re just reading it from the boook to comply with regs. This is common sense approach!

[@ncmountainmama7350]

That looks really great!

[@davidb9708]

You nailed the edge pieces into grain plywood? I will keep watching and get back.

[@marilyn4888]

Great video. Thanks for doing it. Looking forward to the subsequent how to’s on this. ✌️

[@goodolarchie]

Great shoestring build. I would spend the extra $15 on Oak or any actual hardwood because the edge will definitely get beat up. You drop something on pine or even push in the corner of your vacuum hard enough, it will dent.

[@ParkerFamilyFarm]

Looks great! I'd love to learn more about that strait edge you clamped on the plywood.

[@TheLookingOne]

Hey Sow, Thanks for the details. Many areas do not allow wood stoves in mobile homes. Many insurance companies won't pay out. Many areas allow wood pellet stoves.

[@nancyfahey7518]

Looking forward to part 2. My concern is how it goes thru the ceiling/roof.

[@diyfferent]

Great job.

[@furiousfucshiagoddess7616]

Looks great!

[@kingrook8039]

Best and easiest one I've seen yet

[@flowerpixie76]

Looks amazing! 🌼

[@SowtheLand]

thanks Misty!

[@aliciasmith7276]

I love your idea it looks great

[@eileenpalumbo6578]

Beautiful and so much less than buying one already made.

[@deborahatkins6279]

Thanks for sharing, we have a single wide and have been considering doing the same thing if our homeowners insurance will allow it.

[@truejoy3779]

What a handsome and cost-effective addition to your home (mobile or otherwise). You certainly made it look easy; looking forward to seeing the 2nd part! And...definitely hearth not herrrth ;-D lol.

[@SowtheLand]

thanks for watching! Hope you have a good day!

[@truejoy3779]

@@SowtheLand thanks and you as well :o)

[@VANESSASVANLIFEJOURNEY]

Great project

[@dianecharles881]

Thinking of doing this! Thanks!! ❤️

[@jackieskitchenmore]

Great job it looks good.

[@calcuttaworks6398]

Thank you .. you make it look so simple !

[@SowtheLand]

You are welcome!

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi....... Jason (sow the land) I love your video it amazing, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🐔🐓🐥🌱🎥👍👍👍

[@victormcox]

Great job sir!!

[@nataliairizarry6347]

Looks marrvelous

[@loriehabel1552]

Hey there💥 you need to get acouple fans and set ontop, they run by the heat. Man are they nice to push the air and no electricity use is even better😀. Have a good weekend.

[@SowtheLand]

it came with a built in fan but yes, a fan on top would be nice. thanks!

[@benny_lemon5123]

Thanks for publishing this walkthru! I'm in the process of making nearly the same hearth. Unfortunately, nowhere near as cheap for me (canadian dollar among the reasons lol)

[@lexmark6464]

Looks great..

[@TWROC96]

Hi Jason. Your wood stove and hearth (long "r" sound) look beautiful. I'm sure there is going to be a lot of floor sitting and hot chocolate drinking in front of that lovely wood burning stove. You really are a talented artisan. One thing though after watching KZbinrs Arial at "Fy Nyth" and Al at "Lumnah Acres", I've learned how important it is to clean your chimney pipe in order to keep creosote from building up. Creosote buildup can cause a fire. Al has a much bigger wood stove than yours but even he cleans his stove a couple of times during the winter and Arial cleans her's more often though her's is much smaller than yours. Both have video's on cleaning the pipes of their wood stoves. Take good care. Good vibes being sent your way from Taiwan.

[@SowtheLand]

thanks for the suggestions!

[@janetteshaffer1700]

Thanks for this great idea and video. How did you calculate the R value?

[@marinavladova5124]

that's fantastic, but would we have to attach it to the floor or can we just lay the platform on the floor?

[@jenniferwoods9525]

I like the looks of this and it’s simple and clean! I have a wood stove, we also have laminate wood looking flooring but our wood stove has made them shift. My question to you is would doing something like this make it so my flooring doesn’t shift?

[@marbbridges]

I saw your videos very impressive. I too have a single wide trailer, I've been around construction and have done Roofing myself. My question is, did your insurance go up when you installed the fireplace. Because these days it has to be professionals LOL. But I really loved your setup and I want to do the same thing.

[@virginiareid5336]

Great video. You may need to move the bookshelf that is next to the stove.

[@SowtheLand]

bookshelf doesn't heat up. believe me i wouldn't have installed it here if i thought it would. thanks!

[@virginiareid5336]

Sow the Land, just mentioned it because I think a great deal of your family. It was not intended to be a criticism. At my age, (67) we were always taught combustibles could not be near hot objects,

[@SowtheLand]

I appreciate you Virginia! I didn't take it as criticism. thanks for looking out! I hope you have a wonderful day!

[@marcodravigne]

thanks

[@philip4x4guy]

Love the look, how hard is it to keep the pavers clean? My wife figures a tile or something smoother or less porous would be easier to keep clean, any thoughts?

[@markginimalanaphy8963]

😊thank you

[@zigsinclair]

yeah man i like it

[@billmarshall3082]

The stove has to draw its combustion air from outside in a mobile.You need 2 layers of cement board under those blocks (Because bricks and stone are excellent conductors of heat.)Is that construction glue fireproof???I had 2 layers of cement board under my stove for 5-6 years...and it didn't move;no screws.This year I will be making a brick hearth from old chimney bricks...That's when I learned the above info.Even with the bricks I will need 2 layers of cement board under it.God bless

[@naturalfreehuman]

Nice.

[@taylorluedtke7582]

I'm getting ready to do my flooring. They say you shouldn't set kitchen cabinets on top of floating floors because they need to expand and contract. My wood stove is a lot heavier than cabinets and am wondering if I should put my floor in and build on top, like you did, or flooring around the hearth..just curious

[@vadimsyrovatsky5268]

Great video and method to install the hearth for the stove. The construction is massive when you put pavers and stove itself. You glue pavers to the cement board and you have a wooden framing nailed for stability. For me, such construction is heavy enough and will not move unless you have an earthquake. Why you need to screw the plywood and cement board so hard to your floor? I don't want to do that as it will damage my nice flooring and in case I would need to disassemble the stove it will be easier to just remove the pavers, the boards and the flooring underneath will be intact. Am I wrong? (in my project I have 16x16x2 pavers and I did layout and the construction looks so stable without screwing and even gluing it.

[@MsRmoor]

Did you need to give your floor extra support from underneath?

[@scrapshackfarms1349]

Wish we would've done that, we poured a slab on construction plastic w/dye

[@deliverancetothecaptivesja1191]

Did you stack two peices of plywood on top of eachother or is that one single piece?

[@valdiobrigedoebomsilva7592]

HELLO GOOD MORNING FRIEND VÍDEO WONDERFUL THANK YOU SO MUCH FRIEND FAMILY LIKE

[@norweavernh]

Great.looking hearth Jason. What.kind of clearances for the back.and sides are.needed.for.this stove? Is the back wall or bookcases at risk at all? I think I have the same ikea billy bookcases here. Im not.familiar w a stove.that needs no wall protection behind it.

[@SowtheLand]

8" clearance. behind. this is triple wall and double wall pipe. I'll talk more about the stove in the next video. thanks!

[@mudslynger2109]

Is there a special way to store all those partially used tubes of adhesive?

[@Screamingpinesfarm]

Nice install so far. I see you have the fresh air hooked up,I know you have to in a mobile home. however i hope you stress the importance of having the fresh air for wood/pellet stove for the positive and negative air pressure. they will run with out fresh air however they run more efficent and safer.

[@SowtheLand]

Hi Wes, all of that i am still learning and don't know much about. I was told by numerous wood stove professionals that the fresh air hookup was not necessary. as long as we crack a window open. But i added it anyway. Will talk more about it in the next video. thanks!

[@Screamingpinesfarm]

@@SowtheLand simple way to look at it is like a ballon when you burn wood with out fresh air it will pull air from all cracks/gaps from openings creating drafts. if you add fresh air intake the heat from your stove will push the hot air out and no drafts. the sales person that told you to open a window has not a clue why you open up the window.other than someone told him to say that. He should have told you to hook up the cold air.

[@Erklzanderz]

I like everything besides the exposed wood border. If you got an ember that rolled into a crack it seems like a great way to start an unwanted fire. A better material to use would be flat metal or angle iron to build the box frame. Other than great job!

[@97mrking]

Subbed!

[@danpowell6962]

Would this work over carpet flooring?

[@billiamc1969]

Well done...but right next to your vinyl? Bad placement?

[@SowtheLand]

Surprisingly it doesn't heat up the vinyl. I'll talk more about that in the next video. thanks!

[@Sorren11]

How has the cement blocks held up.

[@SowtheLand]

awesome!

[@rachelcarter2443]

are your vinyl records safe that close to the stove?

[@SowtheLand]

they don't get hot. I talk about that in the next video. thanks!

[@aminafamiano-snowbird3573]

Hello there... I was wondering about the back wall...Is the sheet rock good enough...?

[@SowtheLand]

yes, according to the directions. This stove is rated for a mobile home. Some are not. thanks.

[@janeenbreyman212]

Don't you need to install a heat reflector to protect the wall?

[@SowtheLand]

according to the directions of the stove. no. I'll talk more about that in the next video. thanks!

[@raventreefrog2305]

The problem screwing the plywood down to the floor is if you have to move it your ripping it up. It is not necessary to screw it to the floor. It’s not going anywhere unless a tornado hits.

[@vickiewhite4603]

looks toasty

[@gregg329]

Is there a reason why this is much bigger than the footprint of the stove?

[@victorybeginsinthegarden]

I know that you do not own the bus conversion company but have you or your company ever thought about setting up a way that people can rent one of the buses i know that i would be interested in doing something like that because I think that it would be cool to go on a camping trip in one of those buses but would not do it on a regular basis enough to justify owning one I thought it would be nice or maybe teaming up with a company that sell or rents rv's so they can have one of your buses as a rental option

[@SowtheLand]

Yes, that idea has been talked about. But with all things it takes money to do something like that. I think that would be a good idea though. thanks!

[@ketolifestyle68]

im trying to teach my older mom that pellet stove or wood stoves are gonna be the new way to heat your home in the future, when the government starts to talk about cancelling propane to heat houses, thats ridiculous so i now know natural gas will be next, the gas company has already said next year the prices are going up, were going back to the dark ages for heat,, $400 a month to keep a house at 65 is out of control

[@andreyk5739]

Wow, great video Man!!! But next time fill your tea cup with real tea :)

[@maverickf13]

I am doing this

[@davidb9708]

It looks good now but in future may be hard to clean. I would not want it , however I still like the concept. Would have found scrap granite, marble for base and done more free flow mosiac not such a squarish design. imjust typin.

[@97mrking]

Me and my sister are in the process of installing our wood stove. I’m doing the heart (your style) and she is brushing the stove and giving it the polish over. Our hearth build is going to be 3 x 5. A bit different in dimensions but so far it looks good tomorrow I will get some trim and install it. My only question is I want to rent a mailer cause I don’t have one but can I just use the extra all purpose adhesive to just slap it on there?

[@ragdollannie]

Where is part 2?

[@brie1226]

This is perfect, we are moving a pellet stove

[@debbie2663]

👍🙏❤️🙏

[@badukp1792]

HeaRth.

[@Skeptigal1]

Doesn't that add a lot of weight (re: towing)?

[@SowtheLand]

this is a home. not for towing :)

[@Skeptigal1]

@@SowtheLand , gotcha! Nice!

[@robertwarren4706]

You might want to move your record albums away from that wood stove they will melt God bless have fun

[@SowtheLand]

they don't get hot. thanks!

[@dewuknowHIM]

Hearth..the "e" is silent... Pronounced.... "HARTH"