Hello all! Another new guy here, usual spec been lurking for a while..
Here's my situation - just purchased a Drolet Austral, it's going in a room with a vaulted ceiling with it's back to the outside wall that the ceiling slopes upwards on. (if that makes sense..) My original intent was to go straight up with the vent pipe, thru the cathedral ceiling straight into the chimney - the perfect scenario. total height from hearth to cap would be around 21' roughly.
Well a quick check seems to show that there's a joist right in the middle of where I want to go up... (I'm trying to keep the stove as tight to the wall as is allowed.) so my question is what is the best way to do this install?
1: Move the stove away from the wall and go straight up. (hate to take up more space in the room by doing that.)
2: Is there a very shallow angled double wall vent pipe available that I haven't seen online? That would allow me to position the stove where I want it and still manage to avoid the joist?
3: Go straight up to the underside of the cathedral ceiling, then turn it 90 degrees and go out the exterior wall and then finish the chimney on the exterior wall just below the roof line. - Makes it more of a pain for cleaning obviously and I loose that nice straight line up to the cap...
4: Hmmm do installations ever cut right thru the joist therefore allowing a straight shot up thru the ceiling? I'd consider this but then I'd want to put bracing between the adjacent joists. Not sure if this would be a great idea structurally?
Any other options/opinions?
Thanks all,
E.
Here's my situation - just purchased a Drolet Austral, it's going in a room with a vaulted ceiling with it's back to the outside wall that the ceiling slopes upwards on. (if that makes sense..) My original intent was to go straight up with the vent pipe, thru the cathedral ceiling straight into the chimney - the perfect scenario. total height from hearth to cap would be around 21' roughly.
Well a quick check seems to show that there's a joist right in the middle of where I want to go up... (I'm trying to keep the stove as tight to the wall as is allowed.) so my question is what is the best way to do this install?
1: Move the stove away from the wall and go straight up. (hate to take up more space in the room by doing that.)
2: Is there a very shallow angled double wall vent pipe available that I haven't seen online? That would allow me to position the stove where I want it and still manage to avoid the joist?
3: Go straight up to the underside of the cathedral ceiling, then turn it 90 degrees and go out the exterior wall and then finish the chimney on the exterior wall just below the roof line. - Makes it more of a pain for cleaning obviously and I loose that nice straight line up to the cap...
4: Hmmm do installations ever cut right thru the joist therefore allowing a straight shot up thru the ceiling? I'd consider this but then I'd want to put bracing between the adjacent joists. Not sure if this would be a great idea structurally?
Any other options/opinions?
Thanks all,
E.