Hi all,
I have a short horizontal run from the rear of my Fireview that connects to the single wall T that comes off my flex liner. The horizontal run has to be double wall to make clearances with my wood mantel. The person who connected my prior stove crimped the end of the snout of the T and the double wall pipe fit around that. A chimney sweep was here the other day and told me that was done incorrectly and that I need a converter/adapter piece to go from the single wall T to double wall horizontal pipe. I called Selkirk (who makes the double wall pipe I have) and they said that it was fine as it was done, and that the snout didn’t even need to be crimped and it would fit just fine and be done correctly (I may need to cut the snout back a couple inches to fit my new stove, so I was wondering if I would need to crimp it again). I called Woodstock (who sold me the Selkirk double walled pipe) and they said that it was done right and that the single walled snout would need to be crimped to fit into the Selkirk double wall pipe. Who’s correct here? Do I really need some sort of an adapter to connect the single wall snout to double wall pipe as the chimney sweep said? If not, does the single wall need to be crimped to fit into the double walled pipe, as Woodstock said? Or, can I fit the double walled Selkirk pipe around the snout without crimping? Pictures attached if that helps illustrate.
Thank you!
I have a short horizontal run from the rear of my Fireview that connects to the single wall T that comes off my flex liner. The horizontal run has to be double wall to make clearances with my wood mantel. The person who connected my prior stove crimped the end of the snout of the T and the double wall pipe fit around that. A chimney sweep was here the other day and told me that was done incorrectly and that I need a converter/adapter piece to go from the single wall T to double wall horizontal pipe. I called Selkirk (who makes the double wall pipe I have) and they said that it was fine as it was done, and that the snout didn’t even need to be crimped and it would fit just fine and be done correctly (I may need to cut the snout back a couple inches to fit my new stove, so I was wondering if I would need to crimp it again). I called Woodstock (who sold me the Selkirk double walled pipe) and they said that it was done right and that the single walled snout would need to be crimped to fit into the Selkirk double wall pipe. Who’s correct here? Do I really need some sort of an adapter to connect the single wall snout to double wall pipe as the chimney sweep said? If not, does the single wall need to be crimped to fit into the double walled pipe, as Woodstock said? Or, can I fit the double walled Selkirk pipe around the snout without crimping? Pictures attached if that helps illustrate.
Thank you!