sealing stove pipe

[struggle]

Is it best to seal the pipe fittings from the stove into the chimney? I am noticing what seems like some air getting in the pipe from the stove up. Can I use the refactory cement on all the joints? And if I do seal the pipe into the stove and the timble will I be able to get it back apart to clean the chimney as I have no clean out.

Also my norton antivirus keeps kicking my login in off. Any idea on what I need to unclick to prevent this evertime I log in?

 

[Todd]

I used stove cement on my pipe joints this year, and just took them apart last weekend with no problem. The stuff I used Rutland, was pretty brittle, and broke apart easy.

 

[Gooserider]

Is it best to seal the pipe fittings from the stove into the chimney? I am noticing what seems like some air getting in the pipe from the stove up. Can I use the refactory cement on all the joints? And if I do seal the pipe into the stove and the timble will I be able to get it back apart to clean the chimney as I have no clean out.

Also my norton antivirus keeps kicking my login in off. Any idea on what I need to unclick to prevent this evertime I log in?

Go for the Penguin! Install Linux and you don't have to worry about Notrun, because w/ Linux you basically don't have to worry about virus problems.

Gooserider

 

[struggle]

I sealed the pipe tonight with rutland. I had a sliding pipe in place that was not screwed down ( I could see an airwash pattern where the end of the one pipe was in the other) and the 90 deg turn into the chimney/thimble? I found to have a rather large gap on the underside. It was a heavier guage 90 but was compressed (looked accordian style bend) and all along that seem I could see light around it. So I replaced it with a 24 guage Menards black pipe and cemented it in place.

My concern for doing this is I swept the chimney today and found a lot of creosote at the lower couple of feet of the chimney. Further up it was fairly clean so it seemed. I pulled less than a 1/4 of a 5 gallon bucket of stuff out. Which is little compared to some other cleanings in the past. Outside chimney,clay tile 8x8. I am guessing it is built to spec but have no realy idea of how to tell other than it draft very well.

I will look into that other virus stuff.