the coupler is the same size and would be no different if I was using an elbow coupler.
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the coupler is the same size and would be no different if I was using an elbow coupler.
Probably crap sittin in the bend at the bottom of the chimney or you kinked the liner at that bend when you were messing around with it or any number of other possibilities. It also looks like you have clearance issues with the wood framing in a few spots
My basement stove has a flex liner turning 90 degrees into the crock to a thimble. He is gonna find the 90 in the chimney full of crud from his brushing.
mellow
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We have diagnosed it as far as we can go without being onsite, you need to stick the fiberglass rods down the chimney and see if you can go all the way to the stove, but I am guessing that one turn is going to prohibit that, just think how that affects the draft.
I took it apart completely and brushed the entire pipe, so there should be no crud inside.
Well some thing changed you need to take it apart again and check everything for dirt or distortions in the pipe.
I was put on this Earth to drive you up a wall bholler.
After three and a half hours of trying to get that tee down that 30+ foot chimney, gently turning and bringing it into the thimble got really, really attractive. And has done a great job for eight or nine years. Not how I wanted to do it, but if I was gonna line that flue then...
mellow
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Double check that rear exhaust on the circulator, looks like a ton of wet creosote sitting on the floor.
You also might try running a blowtorch up the liner to see if this is from a cold chimney reversing what little draft you have.
You also might try running a blowtorch up the liner to see if this is from a cold chimney reversing what little draft you have.
I have seen it done and it can work it just needs cleaned out at the bottom more often is all i would have opened up the thimble and put the tee on the bottom. Or done it right and broken out the liners so you had room lolI was put on this Earth to drive you up a wall bholler.
After three and a half hours of trying to get that tee down that 30+ foot chimney, gently turning and bringing it into the thimble got really, really attractive. And has done a great job for eight or nine years. Not how I wanted to do it, but if I was gonna line that flue then..
yes that was wet creosote dripping out which never happened before either, but I suspected it was because I couldn't get a hot enough fire going and I let it smolder out bc of the smoke. thanks
mellow
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Sounds like a good hearth.com reunion. Take plenty of pics.
I brush using a rope pulling it down on both flues. Which works well for that one in the basement since it pulls the crud out of that turn on its way out and a vac hose finishes it off.. Anyway, the bottom of the tee would have been too far up from the outside clean-out to reach it anyway.
mellow
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It is much easier to successfully burn sub-par wood in a fireplace than in a stove. The wood I used to burn in my fireplace would have water dripping and steaming out the ends of the logs. I could never burn that in my stove without problems.
It sounds like something is killing the draft since you cleaned the chimney and reconnected the liner. That could mean an obstruction or something else reducing flow, or an opening in the system, like a clean-out door.
My guess is that there is something going on right where that liner enters the chimney. You say there is a connector there, going into a clay tile I assume? Is it possible that the connector is pushed further in than the pipe was before, so that some of the flow is restricted?
Picture that pipe from the stove coming to its end exactly flush with the block chimney -- there would be zero obstruction to air flow at the 90, other than the change in flow direction itself. Now picture it extending all the way in and right through to the other side of the chimney -- in which case, it would be tight against the far wall of the chimney and not letting ANY air flow at all! So I'm wondering, is there any chance the newly made connection itself is somewhat obstructing the flow right at that 90 into the block, so that smoke cannot flow as freely as before?
Yea I get that but the connector isn't exactly at the bend it comes out at the wall, but thanks I think I got it. There was a restriction at the top. When I put everything back together I did not notice that I placed my rain cap all the way down restricting the flow completely. From the ground I could not see it until I got onto the roof.
Good to hear. Sounded like something major stopping flow, and that would certainly do it!
Consider trying to get your wood dryer, though, and then you will need to clean less in the first place.
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