Hi all,
A few years ago you all were very helpful in helping me figure out what stove to get - ended up with the Alderlea T5 and love it. I believe the pipes/chimney are Excel. For various reasons I questioned the original setup and had someone come and take a look and he has some concerns as well. I'd like to get some other opinions and respect what you all say. I will do whatever I need to do to be safe. I've attached some pictures to help explain my questions. Thanks in advance!
Crawl Space above stove
I'm concerned with the clearance in the crawl space where the chimney passes through to the roof. There appears to be about an inch between inner pipe and outer ring but no clearance between outer ring and insulation. This is what concerns me the most about the setup.
There's even some (what looks like) old orange calking on the pipe which tells me the pipe in the crawl space was used material which I wasn't told about but functionally it's fine which is good.
The ceiling strapping was cut and the "box" (not sure that's the right word) was placed between the rafters and cut strapping but the metal tabs don't attach to anything so it seems the stove itself is holding the pipe and chimney in place. This has also caused the tiled ceiling to sag a bit. The pictures should help show what I'm trying to explain.
Room with Stove
Is the ceiling thimble too long? Should it have been cut down so as not to come down from my ceiling a good 18 inches? I looked at a lot of images online and haven't seen it so big.
The double wall pipe coming right out of the stove gets extremely hot, especially when the stove first gets rolling - it is at least 18" from the walls. It gets so hot it's too hot to touch the walls. I first thought about installing a heat shield behind the double-walled pipe but was just told that it could be because there is not enough air between the pipes and that the inner telescoping pipe is taking up so much room inside the outer pipe (at least that's how I understand it to be). The stove rarely hits 500 degrees. Trust me, I keep my eye on that temp gage (directly on top of stove).
Roof
The roof flashing appears to be one that is typically used on metal roofs and could give me some water issues. This setup has calking around the box - not sure if this could get loosened with any good winds or over time dry out. But am told this is the wrong flashing for my roof.
I understand that the support bars for the chimney should be behind the chimney about 45 degrees off each side (leaving them 90 degrees apart). I'm wondering if they didn't put the back right one where it should be because they would have had to cut the telescoping piece in order to make it fit properly to the roof. When the guy got up there to clean it the other day the top 2 feet of pipe was extremely wobbly because it was poorly attached to the lower piece of chimney.
I know there is a lot here but I certainly do appreciate all your feedback.
Thanks a lot!!
MK
A few years ago you all were very helpful in helping me figure out what stove to get - ended up with the Alderlea T5 and love it. I believe the pipes/chimney are Excel. For various reasons I questioned the original setup and had someone come and take a look and he has some concerns as well. I'd like to get some other opinions and respect what you all say. I will do whatever I need to do to be safe. I've attached some pictures to help explain my questions. Thanks in advance!
Crawl Space above stove
I'm concerned with the clearance in the crawl space where the chimney passes through to the roof. There appears to be about an inch between inner pipe and outer ring but no clearance between outer ring and insulation. This is what concerns me the most about the setup.
There's even some (what looks like) old orange calking on the pipe which tells me the pipe in the crawl space was used material which I wasn't told about but functionally it's fine which is good.
The ceiling strapping was cut and the "box" (not sure that's the right word) was placed between the rafters and cut strapping but the metal tabs don't attach to anything so it seems the stove itself is holding the pipe and chimney in place. This has also caused the tiled ceiling to sag a bit. The pictures should help show what I'm trying to explain.
Room with Stove
Is the ceiling thimble too long? Should it have been cut down so as not to come down from my ceiling a good 18 inches? I looked at a lot of images online and haven't seen it so big.
The double wall pipe coming right out of the stove gets extremely hot, especially when the stove first gets rolling - it is at least 18" from the walls. It gets so hot it's too hot to touch the walls. I first thought about installing a heat shield behind the double-walled pipe but was just told that it could be because there is not enough air between the pipes and that the inner telescoping pipe is taking up so much room inside the outer pipe (at least that's how I understand it to be). The stove rarely hits 500 degrees. Trust me, I keep my eye on that temp gage (directly on top of stove).
Roof
The roof flashing appears to be one that is typically used on metal roofs and could give me some water issues. This setup has calking around the box - not sure if this could get loosened with any good winds or over time dry out. But am told this is the wrong flashing for my roof.
I understand that the support bars for the chimney should be behind the chimney about 45 degrees off each side (leaving them 90 degrees apart). I'm wondering if they didn't put the back right one where it should be because they would have had to cut the telescoping piece in order to make it fit properly to the roof. When the guy got up there to clean it the other day the top 2 feet of pipe was extremely wobbly because it was poorly attached to the lower piece of chimney.
I know there is a lot here but I certainly do appreciate all your feedback.
Thanks a lot!!
MK
