Just had our Napoleon 1100 installed, freestanding wood stove. Paid for a professional install, but I'm not so sure it's a good job.
From stove, stainless pipe goes up about 3 feet. Black elbow (shouldn't this be stainless too if we paid for stainless?) at 43degrees to horizontally angled pipe, about 55" long. Then horizontally angled pipe (like this \ ) hooks to into a T which hooks to a straight 12" pipe that inserts into masonry chimney. No liner/pipe in chimney, pipe inserted into chimney goes in just far enough to go in - can't see it from top of chimney. Pipe into chimney was "caulked" with some grey stuff he says was furnace cement - but 24 hours later is still flexible. Gaps form at top when pipe is wiggled. Maybe that just needs more time to cure?
My HUGE concern - I was assured chimney was fine and ready for burn. I said we needed to wait until the inspection. (THANK GOODNESS!!) Turned out my husband had a piece of cardboard inside the chimney to block some rainfall. So the first problem is that I KNOW he didn't inspect my chimney. Does the rest sound correct?
From stove, stainless pipe goes up about 3 feet. Black elbow (shouldn't this be stainless too if we paid for stainless?) at 43degrees to horizontally angled pipe, about 55" long. Then horizontally angled pipe (like this \ ) hooks to into a T which hooks to a straight 12" pipe that inserts into masonry chimney. No liner/pipe in chimney, pipe inserted into chimney goes in just far enough to go in - can't see it from top of chimney. Pipe into chimney was "caulked" with some grey stuff he says was furnace cement - but 24 hours later is still flexible. Gaps form at top when pipe is wiggled. Maybe that just needs more time to cure?
My HUGE concern - I was assured chimney was fine and ready for burn. I said we needed to wait until the inspection. (THANK GOODNESS!!) Turned out my husband had a piece of cardboard inside the chimney to block some rainfall. So the first problem is that I KNOW he didn't inspect my chimney. Does the rest sound correct?