Your thoughts on this?
My woodstove was installed last Spring (February 2012). The sweep was here yesterday for cleaning. He confirmed the "stuff" on the pipe is rust, but otherwise everything is fine. He said the store would have paint in a couple of weeks.
My thinking is that this is a new install and they should replace the pipe with one that will not rust so fast or paint it themselves, or at least give me the can of paint for free.
Why would a woodstove pipe rust so soon? There are scratches in the two new sections of the piping from the stove top, and the top section has no rust on the scratches (yet). This rusting seems to have nothing to do with scratches.
![[Hearth.com] rust on chimney [Hearth.com] rust on chimney](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/73/73696-42e406c24fef815d0ef4b38b62707516.jpg?hash=QuQGwk_vgV)
My woodstove was installed last Spring (February 2012). The sweep was here yesterday for cleaning. He confirmed the "stuff" on the pipe is rust, but otherwise everything is fine. He said the store would have paint in a couple of weeks.
My thinking is that this is a new install and they should replace the pipe with one that will not rust so fast or paint it themselves, or at least give me the can of paint for free.
Why would a woodstove pipe rust so soon? There are scratches in the two new sections of the piping from the stove top, and the top section has no rust on the scratches (yet). This rusting seems to have nothing to do with scratches.
![[Hearth.com] rust on chimney [Hearth.com] rust on chimney](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/73/73696-42e406c24fef815d0ef4b38b62707516.jpg?hash=QuQGwk_vgV)