Hello, Happy New Year,
I have a Breckwell P2700 (4 inch pipe) I want to install in the spot where a wood burning stove was previously located on my new house. It is a basement. The current wall behind the wood stove is a Sheetrock wall with Brick Veneer. Behind the wall is a void, then a Masonary Chimney. A 8" hole currently exists where some type of metal thimble is present in the sheetrock wall, through the void, and into the masonary wall. The piping from the wood stove was connected to the thimble. There chimney is a clay chimney, no other piping is present.
Here is my plan:
1. Remove the sheetrock wall and replace with something acceptable per code.
2. My stove came with a 4 " thimble. I want to put the face plate part of my thimble (with a 4" hole) over the 8" hole and stick my 4" inch piping through it, through the existing thimble, into the masonry chimney, and into a "T" with a cleanout. From there, flex piping will drop down from the top and into the T. I will use high temperature silicone on the connection point of my 4" pipe and my 4" thimble opening to prevent air leak.
These are my questions:
1. Am I correct in suggesting sheetrock is not acceptable ?
2. Does the existing metal thimble need to be a certain type of metal ?
3. Will this install be considered to code ?
4. The piping length needs from my stove to the T is not working. The dementions of the pipes together are too long going into the wall to the T. I can't cut duravent to make it work because it duravent connects to the T by turning it to lock it in. I really need a piece of flex pipe in the vertical section to get it to the proper length. Do they make that ?
Thanks all
!
I have a Breckwell P2700 (4 inch pipe) I want to install in the spot where a wood burning stove was previously located on my new house. It is a basement. The current wall behind the wood stove is a Sheetrock wall with Brick Veneer. Behind the wall is a void, then a Masonary Chimney. A 8" hole currently exists where some type of metal thimble is present in the sheetrock wall, through the void, and into the masonary wall. The piping from the wood stove was connected to the thimble. There chimney is a clay chimney, no other piping is present.
Here is my plan:
1. Remove the sheetrock wall and replace with something acceptable per code.
2. My stove came with a 4 " thimble. I want to put the face plate part of my thimble (with a 4" hole) over the 8" hole and stick my 4" inch piping through it, through the existing thimble, into the masonry chimney, and into a "T" with a cleanout. From there, flex piping will drop down from the top and into the T. I will use high temperature silicone on the connection point of my 4" pipe and my 4" thimble opening to prevent air leak.
These are my questions:
1. Am I correct in suggesting sheetrock is not acceptable ?
2. Does the existing metal thimble need to be a certain type of metal ?
3. Will this install be considered to code ?
4. The piping length needs from my stove to the T is not working. The dementions of the pipes together are too long going into the wall to the T. I can't cut duravent to make it work because it duravent connects to the T by turning it to lock it in. I really need a piece of flex pipe in the vertical section to get it to the proper length. Do they make that ?
Thanks all
!
