Installed a Cumberland Gap in our basement ~2 years ago, and have really enjoyed it but have never felt like it was really working quite right. Sure, I can get it hot and burn it pretty good, but seems like I really have to fight with getting it started sometimes. I have suspected wood, but last year was far enough ahead to use well-seasoned wood to eliminate that as a possibility.
Well, decided to remove a pre-fab ZC fireplace and install the QuadraFire 7100 upstairs this year, and gave it a couple small break-in fires last weekend to cure the paint and make sure everything was working correctly before starting the cosmetic/finish work. It put out some serious heat, and I have never had a fire start so easily. It got me wondering about the Gap and some of the difficulties there.
I used a flame to check for problems; air leaks in stove, pipe, etc. I didn't find any leaks in the stove, but noticed that my connection from the double-wall stove pipe to my "Ceiling Support Box" had an air leak, pulling air in from the living space up the chimney. Naturally, I want to fix this problem.
According to the installation instructions from the manual, I think I did it right. A link is below. I have a doulbe-wall pipe directly connected to the ceiling support box. The problem, is that I basically had to attach the "outer" wall to the only pipe on the ceiling support box, which is designed to be connected to the "inner" pipe. Seems there should be a specific adapter, but I can't seem to identify it in the installation instructions.
I'm happy to provide more info, but this is a long start so any feedback at this point would be helpful. I also thought about using stove cement to seal the leak, but #1 it would just be masking the problem, #2 I want to connect this pipe when I clean the chimney system and #3, least importantly, it could be a bit of a cosmetic issue if not done perfectly. Thanks for suggestions
http://www.mtlfab.com/media/L801.pdf
Well, decided to remove a pre-fab ZC fireplace and install the QuadraFire 7100 upstairs this year, and gave it a couple small break-in fires last weekend to cure the paint and make sure everything was working correctly before starting the cosmetic/finish work. It put out some serious heat, and I have never had a fire start so easily. It got me wondering about the Gap and some of the difficulties there.
I used a flame to check for problems; air leaks in stove, pipe, etc. I didn't find any leaks in the stove, but noticed that my connection from the double-wall stove pipe to my "Ceiling Support Box" had an air leak, pulling air in from the living space up the chimney. Naturally, I want to fix this problem.
According to the installation instructions from the manual, I think I did it right. A link is below. I have a doulbe-wall pipe directly connected to the ceiling support box. The problem, is that I basically had to attach the "outer" wall to the only pipe on the ceiling support box, which is designed to be connected to the "inner" pipe. Seems there should be a specific adapter, but I can't seem to identify it in the installation instructions.
I'm happy to provide more info, but this is a long start so any feedback at this point would be helpful. I also thought about using stove cement to seal the leak, but #1 it would just be masking the problem, #2 I want to connect this pipe when I clean the chimney system and #3, least importantly, it could be a bit of a cosmetic issue if not done perfectly. Thanks for suggestions
http://www.mtlfab.com/media/L801.pdf