Why wood stove installation works differently in Aurora
Nearly every urgent wood stove installation call we take in Aurora began as something a homeowner noticed months earlier and reasonably decided to watch.
Air-sealing and window upgrades have made Aurora homes far tighter than they were designed to be, and a tight house starves a natural-draft appliance of the make-up air it needs.
Many Aurora properties were re-roofed at least once without the flashing being re-detailed, leaving a cosmetic seal doing structural work.
Across Rural Aurora, Bayview Southeast, Aurora Highlands, Bayview Wellington and Aurora Heights, the housing stock changes street by street, and the correct method changes with it. A century home with a soft-brick stack does not get the same treatment as a 2010 build with a factory-built vent — using one method on both is how systems get damaged.
the practical takeaway is that a wood stove installation visit should start with an assessment, not a tool. Any crew that begins work before telling you what they found is guessing on your behalf.