- May 19, 2007
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Well the time has finally come to install my new wood stove; (We were waiting on our final home inspection and had to finish a few things).
I talked to a few local stove shops to give me a bid on installing the stove (and piping) and I am getting very mixed opinions on what type of pipe to use. Some guys say to only use double wall pipe as the height of the piping is 25' and the double wall pipe is needed to maintain the heat all the way up the pipe (thereby keeping the gases from depositing creosote on the pipe if cooled down). Thgis makes perfect sense to me.
A couple of other stove installers suggested that I only go with a single wall pipe as I would be loosing out on all the radiant heat of 25' of piping. They further went on to say that the double wall pipe (as stated above) sounds good in "theory", however, they claim that they see almost zero difference in soot buildup after a year in a single wall vs double wall pipe. They say that after a year, both pipes will need to be swept irregardless of single or double wall and the extra amount of soot buildup in the single wall is very insignificant. They say, those who spend the extra money on double wall pipe are just wasting their money. Again, they say "in theory", the double wall pipe sounds good, but after literally several hundred (or more) sweeping jobs, in "reality", the singlw wall is almost as good, a lot cheaper, you get much more radiant heat from the pipe, and you need to sweep the pipe after a year anyway!.
Now, please realize this is only what installers are telling me. A few of them actually. I don't want to create a fire hazard or anything but now I am not sure what to do; especially that a few of my neighbors have wood stoves with fairly high ridge lines like mine, all using single wall pipe for years now.!!
Your thoughts?
I talked to a few local stove shops to give me a bid on installing the stove (and piping) and I am getting very mixed opinions on what type of pipe to use. Some guys say to only use double wall pipe as the height of the piping is 25' and the double wall pipe is needed to maintain the heat all the way up the pipe (thereby keeping the gases from depositing creosote on the pipe if cooled down). Thgis makes perfect sense to me.
A couple of other stove installers suggested that I only go with a single wall pipe as I would be loosing out on all the radiant heat of 25' of piping. They further went on to say that the double wall pipe (as stated above) sounds good in "theory", however, they claim that they see almost zero difference in soot buildup after a year in a single wall vs double wall pipe. They say that after a year, both pipes will need to be swept irregardless of single or double wall and the extra amount of soot buildup in the single wall is very insignificant. They say, those who spend the extra money on double wall pipe are just wasting their money. Again, they say "in theory", the double wall pipe sounds good, but after literally several hundred (or more) sweeping jobs, in "reality", the singlw wall is almost as good, a lot cheaper, you get much more radiant heat from the pipe, and you need to sweep the pipe after a year anyway!.
Now, please realize this is only what installers are telling me. A few of them actually. I don't want to create a fire hazard or anything but now I am not sure what to do; especially that a few of my neighbors have wood stoves with fairly high ridge lines like mine, all using single wall pipe for years now.!!
Your thoughts?
