I live in a house where I was told the chimney is "not functional" for a wood fire. However, the gentleman told me I could put a pellet stove in up the chimney with a three inch chimney liner pipe. If that's the case, would I be able to install a wood stove in as well?
Dumb Wood Stove Chimney Install Question!
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Yes. The house is extremely old and they said the chimney was not in good shape. They said they could put an entire chimney liner in to allow us to make a fire. But I'm just trying to make the house warmer so he suggested a pellet stove. I'd rather do a wood stove. Would it be the same concept as a pellet stove even though I know the piping would be different? Could I take 8 inch pipe and run it straight up assuming I put the stove in the fireplace?
If you have room for it with insulation then yes probably but you cant just use pipe it needs to be a stainless liner It also depends on how bad the chimney is. And most stoves now have 6" outlets not 8"
The liner should be insulated to improve the performance and to keep adjacent combustible materials from getting to hot and catching fire. Who ever manufacturers the liner used will have insulation approved for use with their liner
Ok and then you put the pipe inside the liner or is the liner all you need? Sorry, I'm a newbie.
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Besides . . . even with easy questions we get to feel all smart-like by answering folks . . . so continue to ask your questions so we feel smart and better about ourselves . . . except of course the exception is me . . . I am just a dumb firefighter.
The liner is the pipe. It is just a pipe that is designed to hold up to the conditions in a chimney. Regular stove pipe will not.
Lol. Thanks!Hey now Kevin . . . there is no such thing as a dumb question here at hearth.com . . . any question is valid . . . except whether it is better to split horizontally or vertically . . . we solved that question a long time ago. I say the answer is an unequivocal "horizontal."
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