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BrianK
Guest
Hi folks,
A friend who works in HVAC and helped me put up my outside flue suggested I replace my single wall black stove pipe that I bought at Lowes with a stainless steel stove pipe (16 or 18 gauge). He can fab it and weld it as a single piece with a clean out at the bottom. This is the type of stove pipe he uses when installing coal or wood boilers and furnaces, and he said it will last many years and be easier to keep cleaned out and eliminate almost all air that might leak into the flue from the black stove pipe junctions.
My stove pipe exits the back of my Woodstock Fireview, goes up 4 feet, has a 90 degree and goes a foot to the wall thimble.
Would there be any advantages or disadvantages to replacing the black stove pipe with stainless? Is the extra cost worth it? Will there be less heat radiated into the room with the stainless than the black pipe? (My wife likes the black pipe, and thinks the stainless will look odd, but I like the idea of the longer term durability of the stainless.)
Thanks in advance for any input!
Brian
Johnstown, PA
A friend who works in HVAC and helped me put up my outside flue suggested I replace my single wall black stove pipe that I bought at Lowes with a stainless steel stove pipe (16 or 18 gauge). He can fab it and weld it as a single piece with a clean out at the bottom. This is the type of stove pipe he uses when installing coal or wood boilers and furnaces, and he said it will last many years and be easier to keep cleaned out and eliminate almost all air that might leak into the flue from the black stove pipe junctions.
My stove pipe exits the back of my Woodstock Fireview, goes up 4 feet, has a 90 degree and goes a foot to the wall thimble.
Would there be any advantages or disadvantages to replacing the black stove pipe with stainless? Is the extra cost worth it? Will there be less heat radiated into the room with the stainless than the black pipe? (My wife likes the black pipe, and thinks the stainless will look odd, but I like the idea of the longer term durability of the stainless.)
Thanks in advance for any input!
Brian
Johnstown, PA