I just signed up here and have a couple of questions. I am in the process of buying my first home. There is a stove in the living room. I have never used one or had one in any of the places I have lived. I was pretty excited that there was one in the house and would like to use it. Anyway when I got the house inspected there were some issues brought up. The inspector says that it is too close to the walls. The flue pipe is installed backwards (said all the sections are overlapping the wrong direction)? The flue outside, he said was not secured properly (i saw that one of the cables is broken and hanging down to the gutter). There is no flue cap. Also he said everything is in need of a good cleaning. Anyway I have a couple pictures that aren't very good. I didn't realize there would be a forum like this where I could ask about this stuff.
So on to my questions. It seems that it wouldn't be to hard to move the stove away from the walls. It is probably 3-4" from the wall at the back corners of the stove. There is room on the tiled area to move it away from the wall. Then I could just redo the flue pipes? Also and this will probably be hard to tell from the crappy pics, can anyone tell what model stove this is? It plugs into the wall and has some sort of blower/fan on it.
One last thing, originally the inspector said that I needed to install a damper in the flue. Then he thought maybe the damper was located on the stove? I have no idea, there is another handle on the right side of the stove towards the top.
As you can tell i am new to this and probably don't have my terminology correct. Any tips or advice you can give from my crappy pics would be appreciated.
So on to my questions. It seems that it wouldn't be to hard to move the stove away from the walls. It is probably 3-4" from the wall at the back corners of the stove. There is room on the tiled area to move it away from the wall. Then I could just redo the flue pipes? Also and this will probably be hard to tell from the crappy pics, can anyone tell what model stove this is? It plugs into the wall and has some sort of blower/fan on it.
One last thing, originally the inspector said that I needed to install a damper in the flue. Then he thought maybe the damper was located on the stove? I have no idea, there is another handle on the right side of the stove towards the top.
As you can tell i am new to this and probably don't have my terminology correct. Any tips or advice you can give from my crappy pics would be appreciated.