A few years ago i installed a wood stove in my moms house and it worked great. This year we needed to replace the pipe outside the house so my mothers friend used a steel pipe anchored in the ground and attached it to the exsisting pipe except he added two more elbows as you will see in the pics. Now the stove smokes and she cannot get a strong fire lit. Do you think this new design is the issue?
Change in flue design, now stove is smoking?
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WOW! "With friends like that..."
You are lucky that Rube Goldberg set up burns AT ALL. Time to start over IMHO.
He's jury rigged connector pipe & Class A chimney on the outside.
Looks like he reduced it as well. Her friend should read up on chimney installation
Everything from the wall pass thru to the cap MUST be Class A chimney.
It's a mess & it's unsafe. Tell your mom not to use her stove until it's made right.
You are lucky that Rube Goldberg set up burns AT ALL. Time to start over IMHO.
He's jury rigged connector pipe & Class A chimney on the outside.
Looks like he reduced it as well. Her friend should read up on chimney installation
Everything from the wall pass thru to the cap MUST be Class A chimney.
It's a mess & it's unsafe. Tell your mom not to use her stove until it's made right.
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Agreed tear that mess out and start over it is unsafe and obviously will not preform well Not to mention that black pipe wont last more than a season outside if that long
Wow . . . I mean . . . wow . . . haven't seen a stove set up this bad (or as dangerous) here on this site for a very, very long time.
Definitely time to hit the reset button and do-over . . . do it right and make it safe. Folks here can guide you through what you need to do.
Definitely time to hit the reset button and do-over . . . do it right and make it safe. Folks here can guide you through what you need to do.
Yes I know it looks pretty terrible now. I am away at college and was not there to supervise...
The original set up is as follows.
Inside the house the stove vents out the back wall of the unit. It has a 90 degree elbow coming out of the unit and straight up 3 feet to allow the smoke to rise, then i was forced to vent straight out through the wall via a double walled stainless 4' section inside of a collar which connected to a single walled section about 1' long which connected to the next 90 elbow. This allowed me to clear the eve of the house, and I also ensured it had a pitch to it so the smoke could still rise. Then from the elbow I vented straight up passing through another collar then terminated at about 3 feet above the eve. At this point it exceeded the minimum of 10' away from the nearest part of the roof measured horizontally that my research said was minimum requirement. And it was above the peak of the house as well.
What has been modified as seen in the pics are the 2 elbows coupled at the end meant to connect to the pipe anchored in the ground, and everything above that.
I know its a big mess....
The original set up is as follows.
Inside the house the stove vents out the back wall of the unit. It has a 90 degree elbow coming out of the unit and straight up 3 feet to allow the smoke to rise, then i was forced to vent straight out through the wall via a double walled stainless 4' section inside of a collar which connected to a single walled section about 1' long which connected to the next 90 elbow. This allowed me to clear the eve of the house, and I also ensured it had a pitch to it so the smoke could still rise. Then from the elbow I vented straight up passing through another collar then terminated at about 3 feet above the eve. At this point it exceeded the minimum of 10' away from the nearest part of the roof measured horizontally that my research said was minimum requirement. And it was above the peak of the house as well.
What has been modified as seen in the pics are the 2 elbows coupled at the end meant to connect to the pipe anchored in the ground, and everything above that.
I know its a big mess....
Well your setup before sounds like a bit of a mess to not quite as bad but still really really far from right. Spend the money and get some class a pipe to do it right. You are begging for a house fire with the current or previous setup
Single wall pipe is not a chimney and cant be used as one. Proximity to single wall as a connector pipe is typically 18" unless otherwise specified by the stove manufacturer. But there is no code for clearance for single wall when it is used as a chimney.
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