About 20 minutes after they were installed, both of the smoke detectors went off.  The wood burning stove has been giving off a lot of smoke and fumes as the paint on the outside of it bakes.

I had to remove the batteries from both of them for the next few days as we burn the rest of the scrap wood.  Once all of the paint on the stove has been thoroughly baked on, I doubt that we will have a problem with the smoke detectors.

I checked the wall and beneath the stove in the afternoon.  Both were too hot to keep a hand on.  I checked the back side of the cement backer board and it too was pretty hot, but the wall board behind that was only warm to the touch, so once we have the insulation in place, I feel comfortable that it will be safe.  The stove pipe is a double wall insulated type made for wood pellet stoves.  We will be adding one more layer of insulation to it before we are done with the installation.

It was nice to be able to add a couple of leaves to the table and fit the whole family around it.  There was still enough room to walk between the table and the refrigerator.

I broke the leg on the table trying to put it back down.  It turns out that it had been broken so many times before that it was only being held together by a few splinters of wood.  We did a temporary patch to it, but I think in the long run it might be worth it to use the table as a template and make a new one using the parts from the current one.

I cut the holes quite a bit larger than needed because the plumbing will also be running through the same location.  I figured that I'd get the holes cut for both while we had everything taken apart anyway.