Could not get pellet stove to fire due to the exhaust being plugged up. Quad 1200i in a brick/masonry chimney installed 4 years ago.
Disconnected flex pipe where it connects to stove and it was full of wet ash. Chimney clear all the way up and there is a cap on it (flat on top, screen around sides approx 10"X14").
Connected to the stove is 15 or 16 feet of flex steel tube going more or less straight up the chimney. Has one minor bend where it passes through flue. Tube just ends and I suspect water ran down the inside of chimney during a recent heavy rain storm and down into to the flex tube. Chimney is at least 30 feet high so tubing must be just leaning against one side of the chimney.
My question is whether or not this a legit way to exhaust the stove? Has worked fine for years, but that doesn't make it right.
Thanks in Advance!
Disconnected flex pipe where it connects to stove and it was full of wet ash. Chimney clear all the way up and there is a cap on it (flat on top, screen around sides approx 10"X14").
Connected to the stove is 15 or 16 feet of flex steel tube going more or less straight up the chimney. Has one minor bend where it passes through flue. Tube just ends and I suspect water ran down the inside of chimney during a recent heavy rain storm and down into to the flex tube. Chimney is at least 30 feet high so tubing must be just leaning against one side of the chimney.
My question is whether or not this a legit way to exhaust the stove? Has worked fine for years, but that doesn't make it right.
Thanks in Advance!