Chimney liner connection question

[Burn-1]

I am getting ready to install an insulated flex liner in one of my chimneys for a PE Vista. I haven't decided on the venting company I'm going to buy from but I thought that for simplicity on a top vent stove that I could just hook up the liner to the stove with a flex adapter.

However, one of the vendors I have been speaking with says that I have to use a tee. The chimney is about 17 feet high from the top of the stove, ( I know most chimney measurements are taken from the firebox floor), but I would like to seat the stove a bit deeper in the fireplace and I don't think I could do this with a tee and have it remain straight up and down. Given almost all inserts are top vent which connect vertically to the chimney, is there any reason why one couldn't connect a free-standing stove directly to the liner? It also seems a fair bit cheaper that way.

 

[BrotherBart]

It isn't a dime cheaper but it is done all of the time. Mine is almost all the way in the back of the fireplace and required a 30 degree elbow to mate with the liner because of the smoke shelf. A 15 degree would have worked also. The stainless elbow costs the same as a tee.

If it is Rockford you are talking to Brian wouldn't know a chimney if it fell on his head.

 

[webbie]

No problemo......
Straight up from the stove is fine - only a rear vent stove would require a TEE. Since some flex may be showing, perhaps you'll want to spray it black or else just slip a "fake" piece of larger 7" snap lock - not locked together - around it.