Why wood stove installation works differently in Newmarket
Nearly every urgent wood stove installation call we take in Newmarket began as something a homeowner noticed months earlier and reasonably decided to watch.
Infill and renovation work in Newmarket frequently reroutes venting without re-sizing it, and undersized or over-long runs are the single most common cause of poor draft we see.
Many Newmarket properties were re-roofed at least once without the flashing being re-detailed, leaving a cosmetic seal doing structural work.
Across Glenway Estates, Armitage, Huron Heights-Leslie Valley, Woodland Hill and Yonge Corridor Newmarket, 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.