Help me pick a chimney pipe

[Pauly]

I have my stove on order and hopefully it wil be gettting here in a week or two.

Now I need to decide upon which brand of chimney to buy, and have found the amount of choices to be confusing. I am going to do the installation myself. The pipe will pass from the stove through the ceiling and then about 8 feet of un occupied attic space and through the roof. My best guess at this point is I will wind up with about 20 feet of chimney.

My old craft stove insert in my ship has a selkirk metalbestos chimney which I installed myself afterI moved to our present location. The craft stove I had originally had installed professionally and before I dismantled it to move, I took a ton of pictures and made notes so I knew how to put it all back together in our new place.

Of course I want a safe installation above all else, but dont want to break the bank. What brand would be most user friendly while still being economical? I would like to use single wall pipe until the point where it approaches the ceiling, but how do you transition between the single wall pipe and the double wall? Or should I just go double the wall the whole way? From the top of the stove it will be right around 7 1/2 feet to the ceiling.

I am also wondering about how other double wall pipes connect- my selkirk has locking bands to make sure the sections never come apart - do othr brands do similar?

thank you for any help or advice

 

[Pagey]

The single wall will transition to double wall in the ceiling support box via the use of a special adapter that should come with the kit you buy.

 

[Pauly]

Thanks Pagey

Any other comments on the different brands of chimney pipe?

 

[Pagey]

Excel, Selkirk, Hart & Cooley...those are all good brands. And I'm sure they all have many different sub-brands.

 

[dougand3]

Check your big box stores - find UL-103 HT rating. Around here, Lowes is best price - Selkirk Supervent.

 

[RustyShackleford]

As far as the "stove pipe" - the section from the stove up to the chimney proper (the
Class A chimney), the two main brands are Selkirk DSP and Simpson DVL. If you
have have an offset (kink) in the stovepipe, built with two 45-degree elbows with
or without a straight section of pipe in-between, be aware that the two brands give
you different options on what that offset can be. That's my main decision point
between the two right now ... Of course, if you're starting from scratch, you
probably don't need an offset.

 

[greythorn3]

i got the simpson and it was easy to install.

 

[Detector$]

I have ICC Excel Class A and ICC Ultrablack double wall stove pipe. I think it's the best out there.