Switch from single to Dbl wall stove pipe

[Chuck the Canuck]

Howdy all. I just finished cleaning my chimney, and in the process decided to switch from using 3 pieces of single wall stove pipe to 1 piece of telescopic double wall stove pipe. One thing that I'm curious about is whether the new stove pipe going to stink whilst the paint cures on the new pipe? The other thing I'm wondering about is monitoring flue temps; I used a magnetic therm on the single wall pipe, but that isn't going to be much good now. I don't much feel like drilling a hole in my nice new double wall, and I'm not sure I really need to either; perhaps it would be fine if I just monitor stove top temps with my IR gun and not worry about flue temps?

Cheers,

 

[bholler]

It will smell a bit not as much as single wall. You can do it just with stove top temp i like a stack thermometer but it is not necessary

 

[Chuck the Canuck]

It will smell a bit not as much as single wall. You can do it just with stove top temp i like a stack thermometer but it is not necessary

Yep, I burned a small fire and the smell was minor indeed... Now it seems to me I recall some talk about doubling the surface temp reading of double wall stove pipe to get a rough guestimate of the flue temps inside; so I could use the IR gun for reading both stove top and rough flue temps if that were the case....

Cheers