A picture is worth a thousand words.... As you can see, I have a 4" Stainless piece coming from my chimney liner clean-out T and I need to connect it to Dura-Vent 90 degree elbow. Any ideas? I've been through their literature and can't seem to find a fitting for this purpose.
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Dura-Vent Pellet Pro Pipe Question
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Did you get the male and/or female flex adapters they mention in the catalog? You can then connect up to rigid pellet vent. (broken link removed)
I have no idea on the credibility of this supplier just wanted an example of the part!
I have no idea on the credibility of this supplier just wanted an example of the part!
Lake Girl, thanks for your comment! I thought those were specifically to connect to the flex pipe. So, this is what you are suggesting?
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Eric, after sending a couple emails, leaving a couple voicemails I finally called DuraVent's customer service and pressed buttons until someone answered. They all seemed put off that I needed to solve this problem. That's disappointing because I actually like their pipe. I was sold another brand that was junk last year. All calls to the consumer tech support line at duravent go straight to voicemail. Anyway...
In a nutshell, they recommended doing the same thing (shove the PP pipe over the T pipe). I am ok with that, but the pipes are the same diameter so they don't like to overlap much (maybe 1/4" if I push really hard). So, I am going to try to crimp that 4" T Pipe in hopes of getting it slide in a bit further and then filling hte crimp gap with silicone. It's the only way that I can think of to get this done. Even the inferior pipe that I bought last year had a nice fitting for this, it just leaked smoke like crazy.
In a nutshell, they recommended doing the same thing (shove the PP pipe over the T pipe). I am ok with that, but the pipes are the same diameter so they don't like to overlap much (maybe 1/4" if I push really hard). So, I am going to try to crimp that 4" T Pipe in hopes of getting it slide in a bit further and then filling hte crimp gap with silicone. It's the only way that I can think of to get this done. Even the inferior pipe that I bought last year had a nice fitting for this, it just leaked smoke like crazy.
I give up. This stuff looks great in concept, but trying to install it on my stove tonight turned out to be a tremendous waste of time. I am sending it all back to northlineexpress where I purchased it.
It seems there is little non-standard venting support. Some manuals say it is ok to hook up to existing 6" venting, but finding the proper part to do it is rather difficult. And sometimes unless the part is specifically made and approved for such an instillation it could be against code, etc. I had a 6" snout on my tee in my thimble and found a Duravent 6" chimney connector. But what it is specifically for is a particular 6" Duravent chimney system, not just any 6" single wall pipe. So probably against manufacturer but I did what others said, just shove em together and use silicone. It worked fine for the most part, but my stove dirtied up very quickly and I later pulled the liner and used 4" pellet vent in hope to get the stove to burn better. Wasted my money there, it didn't help. And I never could get the snout and chimney adapter apart. I'm thinking about reinstalling the liner and putting a wood burner back in but I can't get the Pelletvent adapter off the snout lol. Any ideas?
Rickwal, I completely agree and that was the purpose of this thread. As it turns out, Duravent says to force the 90 degree 4" Pellet Pro piece over the 4" Stainless T extension and let silicone do the rest. Well, I followed their instructions and now none of it will work. Once twisted together they do NOT come apart. Once slid together, they will not move again so you better get it 100% right the first time. The twist lock 'feature' seems cool until you actually try to use it and it's a complete pain in the rear. The company that I bought this stuff from is now telling me that they won't take it back because I used silicone (per Duraflex instructions) and because I am not a licensed installer. There's another $600 in the crapper. I've about had it with Pellet stoves and the suppliers. I paid that same amount last year for another supplier's pipe that leaked so much smoke I had to pull it out.
OhioBurner, I feel your pain. It seems like such a trivial thing to attach the back of a pellet stove to the T-Pipe from the chimney liner but it's not. I just took tin-snips to a fortune's worth of pipe! Just tired of throwing the $ away. My electric furnace is expensive, but it's easy peasy.
seems like your dealer did not give you much direction. We always use a female flex adapter then that gets you to twist lock and you go from there. We dont use silicone on pellet pro w/ the oring seal. I have had mine in since 08 I think and i use the one joint as a union to seperate pipe and spin stove around each fall for cleaning. Slide it back together and twist and all is good. I have never used a tee like you have pictured. If you have a small leak like at tee cap I usually use the foil tape so I can get it back apart. Do you have any pictures of you set up and venting to post?
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