I have a cabin with a small size and older Vermont castings wood stove. Not sure of the model but is basically a somewhat square box with a baffle and takes wood around 12 in comfortably. Heats well and will hold coals for about 8 hours. Good seasoned oak.
The stove outlet is 6in, goes through the wall at 6in and goes into a 8x13 chimney. That I find to be equal to 9in round by researching. The previous owner dropped a 7in round pipe to the base inside the liner and has a flange on the outside of the 7in pipe to cover the opening between the pipe and the liner around the pipe at the top.
The smoke is escaping under the flange around the outside of the pipe due to needing to be resealed and is making a mess of the new stucco job we did a couple years ago on the exterior of the chimney block.
My question is should I just reseal the flange around the pipe or get rid of the pipe completely and let the stove draft through the 8x13 liner and put on a new 8x13 chimney cap? I'm afraid going from a 6in stove into a 9in liner might not work and I'm still at that point going to have a cold chimney at the top with the creosote running out anyway.
I realize the correct way to do this would be to install a 6in liner to the stove but don't want to spend the money unless I have to. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Dave
The stove outlet is 6in, goes through the wall at 6in and goes into a 8x13 chimney. That I find to be equal to 9in round by researching. The previous owner dropped a 7in round pipe to the base inside the liner and has a flange on the outside of the 7in pipe to cover the opening between the pipe and the liner around the pipe at the top.
The smoke is escaping under the flange around the outside of the pipe due to needing to be resealed and is making a mess of the new stucco job we did a couple years ago on the exterior of the chimney block.
My question is should I just reseal the flange around the pipe or get rid of the pipe completely and let the stove draft through the 8x13 liner and put on a new 8x13 chimney cap? I'm afraid going from a 6in stove into a 9in liner might not work and I'm still at that point going to have a cold chimney at the top with the creosote running out anyway.
I realize the correct way to do this would be to install a 6in liner to the stove but don't want to spend the money unless I have to. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Dave