6 inch Insulated Liner in a 13x13 Flue aka "hot dog in a hallway"

[Jambx]

I just installed my liner (and insulation) yesterday - lots of fun acually and what I thought would have been a fight to get it down the chimney was a piece of cake. The 6 inch insulated liner litteraly flew down the 13x13 flue so much so I am very concern about the amount of weight which is bearing on the top plate.

Initally I thought the liner / insulation would be a tight fit in the flue which would then take up some of the weight. Am I missing something here? Did anyone else have a 13x13 flue size and add a liner to it?

I am now thinking about trying to add a clamp to the liner and have it rest against where the damper would normally rest to take up some of the weight off the top plate. Am I over thinking this?...

Thanks!

~jim

 

[tfdchief]

Possible, how many feet of liner and insulation?

 

[Jambx]

~23 feet

 

[BrotherBart]

It will be fine just like it is. Of course you know that all of us that couldn't get that rig down our chimneys all hate you. :lol:

 

[Jambx]

Thanks - feel a little better - just seems like a lot of weight being held up by a thin plate.

I have to say it was comical since I looked at some you-tube videos on how to install a liner and every one showed the installer wresiling with it - when I put it in it shot down the chimney only to hear the girl friend screaming on the other end as I told her to help by pulling on the liner at the same time I was putting it in. She wasnt to ammused.

 

[BrotherBart]

Thanks - feel a little better - just seems like a lot of weight being held up by a thin plate.

I have to say it was comical since I looked at some you-tube videos on how to install a liner and every one showed the installer wresiling with it - when I put it in it shot down the chimney only to hear the girl friend screaming on the other end as I told her to help by pulling on the liner at the same time I was putting it in. She wasnt to ammused.

That stove is a lot of steel down at the bottom holding up a thin tube of broil foil. No worries.

I hear ya on the sliding down. The basement stove needed a tee attached to the liner. Neighbor on the bottom tugging and me on the roof. 7 X 11 tiles and that tee just was not going to go. I finally pulled the tee off the thing, stormed off the roof and told the neighbor to take a break. And that liner slid down like a greased rope. Went down and eased it sideways into the crock and called it a day.

Neighbor said that if I had known I was gonna get pissed off I could have saved him a trip up the hill. :lol:

 

[Todd]

You could fill in the gap with loose perlite insulation if it's bugging you. That's what I did on my 12x12 and it's nice and snug. You will probably be fine as is though.