Here's the finished installation of Mom's wood stove

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rwhite said:
IF I understand correctly you got the flashing under the shingle but added a adhesive cover piece to hide the job. If this is correct and you actually did get the flashing under a shingle I wouldn't have bothered with the cover flashing. What the cover flashing has the potential to do is trap moisture and freeze in between and create a dam. All that said you may be ok. Just keep an eye on it. If you have any of the adhesive flashing left I'd cut a strip and just slip it under the upper shingle. That may fix it for good and you won' have to worry about doing anything else. All in all it looks good and better than some pics folks have posted of "pro" jobs.
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Yes, you understood me correctly but I will add that I added the adhesive flashing also to try to get a tighter connection all around to the composite roofing.
In your earlier post you suggested sliding a piece of flashing under that top shingle to overlap the cone flashing, I do like that idea. That flashing could be big enough to even go over my adhesive flashing with the bottom end all the way down to the cone flashing

Wow, I think I'm having a flashing back!

But seriously, when I take that storm collar off to clean it up I'll have a better look at the cutout I made in the cone and see if I can help that area. It was getting pretty dark by the time I installed that and the storm collar. And I hope by adding sealant under that top shingle I didn't create a problem for the future. Now I won't be able to go under that shingle, I'll have to go up a row. I'll just be flashing it to death!

Good suggestion so thanks,
Bryan
 
Here is an update.

The City Building inspector approved the installation so that's good but we haven't lit a fire yet. That was yesterday. Our plan is to do it tonight but I know my mother is nervous and not sure how to operate an energy efficient stove. I left her with the manual and lighting instruction so she could read it. I too read it and will try to answer any question she might have and try to explain it. I think she has heard a little too much from my sister and I so she's unsure. She's been around wood stoves when she was young but this one's a little different.
My Sister and Step Father all live there too so I think it shouldn't be a problem, we need to simplify it for her. I do have the flue thermometer installed and she does have a moisture meter and has been testing her wood finding pieces of about 20%.

We'll give a try tonight and I think after we play with it a bit she'll feel better, more confident. I hope!

Bryan
 
Make the initial fire small with just a few splits and let it go out. Then make the next fire large enough to get the stove top over 500F. Have a fan ready in a window to exhaust the smoke and smell of the paint baking in and let mom know that this is normal and temporary.
 
bryansong said:
That's what we'll do.

Thanks!
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"...she does have a moisture meter and has been testing her wood finding pieces of about 20%..."

She needs to make sure she's testing on a freshly-split face, to get an accurate reading.
 
Typically, the flashing looks like this.

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I went a little non-conventional with mine as I was installing Grace snow and ice on the entire roof at the same time. I installed the underlayment on the entire roof without the flashing. Then put the flashing down on top of the underlayment. Then sealed the flashing to the top of the underlayment with more snow and ice and a heat gun, then shingled around it and over it.
Towards the bottom, I nailed in an extra piece of flashing that would help shed any water over the shingles. I think to was way overkill, but that's how I roll.
From the outside, it looks almost exactly like the pic above, but not so close to the top vent.
 
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DanCorcoran said:
"...she does have a moisture meter and has been testing her wood finding pieces of about 20%..."

She needs to make sure she's testing on a freshly-split face, to get an accurate reading.
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Ok I just called her and relayed that information and that's what she is going to do. She's going out right now to sort through her wood
and see what she has. She does have a nice stack of wood my brother brought over from some dead trees on his property and more dry wood coming next week but that wood has been out in the rain and snow.

I told her tonight we'll just make a small fire then let it go out and Saturday I'll bring over my big fan and put in the sliding glass door to draw out the odors when we do fire that stove up.

begreen, can I just look at the flue thermometer for my 500°F reading? I know that isn't necessarily the reading on the stove top but will that do?

Bryan
 
sportbikerider78 said:
Typically, the flashing looks like this.

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I went a little non-conventional with mine as I was installing Grace snow and ice on the entire roof at the same time. I installed the underlayment on the entire roof without the flashing. Then put the flashing down on top of the underlayment. Then sealed the flashing to the top of the underlayment with more snow and ice and a heat gun, then shingled around it and over it.
Towards the bottom, I nailed in an extra piece of flashing that would help shed any water over the shingles. I think to was way overkill, but that's how I roll.
From the outside, it looks almost exactly like the pic above, but not so close to the top vent.
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That looks very nice. Well done.
 
Bryan - You install looks good to go, I think a few people didn't read the comment about that extra piece of flashing, it throwing a few people off. Good luck on the first fire, do a couple pieces of news paper first to warm the flue up (so you don't get smoke seepage on the 1st run) make sure your air is open all the way, reload paper, some small kindling, light that and let her rip on full high air, then go from there in small increments. Like BG said you will get some smells, also be advised that depending on usage (could be next week or 2 months from now) they will have a situation where they load and the thing takes off on them, they may get new smoke / paint smells, just remind them that its normal (it happens to everyone)
 
Good luck with it. I lit my first fire in a brand new stove this fall. I had burned my whole life with always second hand or had come with the house stoves. So for me it was great fun to light off a stove for its very first burn!
 
Thanks Squisher!

I just returned home after being at Mom's for her initial stove lighting and all went very well. What a difference a Manual makes. She had read the manual and was telling me all about it when I'd mention something. "Oh, I read that" and then she'd start flipping through the manual and start reading aloud. I can see she is becoming more confident. She wants to light a few small fires like the manual says before her first big fire.

Starting the fire at first I made a torch out of rolled up newspaper and shoved it up into the opening at the top heading for the flue and I could see we had a very good draw. That's Great!
I'll just mention that I can't get that smell out of my nose. I hope that goes away soon.

I'm still waiting on the sealer to redo the storm collar and inspect the flashing so it might not be long before I'm finished.
I know everybody over there at Mom's are going to enjoy this stove, at least for a while anyway.

Bryan
 
Hope you and mom are staying dry and out of the flood area.
 
I recently installed our wood stove and chimney pipe as well. The location of where the chimney had to go thru the roof wasn't ideal but its what we had to work with. The roof is a steep 12/12 pitch and the flashing was going over the ridge on the top corner of the roof. Its a hip style type roof. I wasn't able to get the top edge of the flashing worked under the shingles since it was cold and close to the ridge. I put 2 complete beads of high temp chimney silicone caulking under the flashing making sure not to seal across the bottom before I put the flashing down. I used zinc coated screws to secure the flashing making sure to screw thru where the caulking was under the flashing then put more caulking over the screw head. I sealed the top edge of the flashing with more silicone. I put a nice bead of caulk around the chimney pipe at the top of the boot before I put the rain cap on. My work was tested the following week by a over 6 inch rain over 24 hours. No leaks at all. Once spring comes I will get back on the roof to get the shingles over the top edge of the flashing
 
Hey Ryan, it sounds like you had quite a rough go on the roof. I guess you were sitting on the peak.
I'd like the snow and ice to melt off the roof so I can get back up there and redo the storm shield with the correct caulk.
There has been a couple of dribbles down the black pipe.

begreen,
I'm on the west side of the state next to Kansas City. We got rain then snow and ice but nothing too bad. I think all of the flooding was east central.
Talking with my wife about how hard it got be on those flooded out and the cold. What if everything froze up before the water receded.
There is no warm weather to dry things out. It's sad.
 
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