New house, install questions.

[wesessiah]

Just bought a new house that has an old free standing stove that was piped through a block off plate. When looking at the house I wasn't permitted to remove the plate to inspect. I think that was more on the selling realtor than the 92 year old lady that sold it to us. Anyway, after removing the plate, I find about 3 inches of creosote buildup at the bottom, and lots everywhere else.

The issue is, the chimney is 19" deep at the bottom, 15" at the top of the opening, but it appears there is a fixed plate for the damper that leaves about a 4" opening to the smoke shelf. Say I could manage cutting it, the flue is separated into two (what appears to be) 4"x6" flues. How do I go about piping my buck model 74? My wife wanted to bring it instead of buying a new stove. Side note, I swear I don't remember that stove being that awful to move around 10 years ago, lol. Thanks for any input.

 

[EbS-P]

I think the biggest issue is the two 4x6” flues. Any chance you could break them out to open it up bigger?

I was able to remove my entire damper frame (and damper) Once I did that I had all the room I needed.

 

[stoveliker]

You need to add a (likely insulated) stainless steel liner to that chimney; and for that you indeed need to have a larger flue, so breaking out the tiles is likely needed.

 

[wesessiah]

Thanks for the responses. I'll have to go up top and check it out from there. What I do notice up top is it doesn't have any decent crown, it has 6 free standing bricks with a... I dont know what it's called, asphalt looking plate sitting on top. I would have liked to have brought my liner and cap, but, it was a nightmare getting in, and I just didn't have the time to get it out. I managed to get that damper frame exactly 6" after some cutting and grinding, so it was work getting the 6" flex pipe down.

Either way, I'm not the type to run a couple of feet of it above the stove and say "close enough." If nothing else, there is a... chimney I guess you would call it, in the workshop. It's an enclosed chamber with a stove pipe hole about 6 feet up.

Here's the stove I'm giving away. Kinda wish I was charging for it after getting it out of the house. I swear it felt like it weighed 500 pounds. 3 of us, 2 makeshift wheel dollies, an 8x8 a few 4x4s and about an hour later, it's sitting on the front porch. For the life of me I could not figure out how to get the fire brick out. There was a steel tab holding each piece in place.