Hi,
First house, first pellet stove. After reading a lot of great posts here and shopping around I have purchased a Lopi Leyden pellet stove that currently sits on an existing hearth/chimney.
Layout:
The flue on the hearth is dedicated 6" stainless lined that was used originally with a wood stove (previous owners) that is about 14ft tall. The chimney is masonry (Stone) with two flues and sits inside the thermal envelope of the house surrounded by an open kitchen/dining/living room with vaulted ceilings. (Central Mass) The flue has good draft, with 80 deg temp inside and out it still has enough draft to extinguish a lighter 1" from the mouth of the opening.
My question:
is about venting it into the existing 6" stainless flue. The Lopi manual requires the standard L vent all the way to the roof for every installation save a class A chimney which it can be adapted directly to. However they do not show a condition in the manual where the chimney is indoors the assumption is always an exterior chimney. I asked 3 local dealers if I can vent to the existing 6" with the Lopi, the responses I got were:
Definately yes
Definately no and we can charge you $900 to install a 4"
Probably yes
I was originally assuming it needs to be 4" as to keep the velocities high enough to expel ash but again the manual states that it can be adapted to a 6" class A chimney.
So now I am confused
Yes/Or no, I was hoping someone with more experience has an answer or advice, I want to do this correctly and safely but I want to avoid spending an extra $400 on 4" L-Vent to reline the flue if it is not needed.
TIA
First house, first pellet stove. After reading a lot of great posts here and shopping around I have purchased a Lopi Leyden pellet stove that currently sits on an existing hearth/chimney.
Layout:
The flue on the hearth is dedicated 6" stainless lined that was used originally with a wood stove (previous owners) that is about 14ft tall. The chimney is masonry (Stone) with two flues and sits inside the thermal envelope of the house surrounded by an open kitchen/dining/living room with vaulted ceilings. (Central Mass) The flue has good draft, with 80 deg temp inside and out it still has enough draft to extinguish a lighter 1" from the mouth of the opening.
My question:
is about venting it into the existing 6" stainless flue. The Lopi manual requires the standard L vent all the way to the roof for every installation save a class A chimney which it can be adapted directly to. However they do not show a condition in the manual where the chimney is indoors the assumption is always an exterior chimney. I asked 3 local dealers if I can vent to the existing 6" with the Lopi, the responses I got were:
Definately yes
Definately no and we can charge you $900 to install a 4"
Probably yes
I was originally assuming it needs to be 4" as to keep the velocities high enough to expel ash but again the manual states that it can be adapted to a 6" class A chimney.
So now I am confused
Yes/Or no, I was hoping someone with more experience has an answer or advice, I want to do this correctly and safely but I want to avoid spending an extra $400 on 4" L-Vent to reline the flue if it is not needed.
TIA
