Wood Stove Removal

[ishmael1980]

Good morning, I have a small wood stove in the three season porch that our insurance company is requiring that we remove (it is a rental property and apparently the insurance companies frown on wood stoves when tenant occupied). I plan on reinstalling the stove if we sell the property down the road so I don’t want to remove the chimney. The stove was connected to a 6” DVL double wall stove pipe, up through a Duravent Ceiling Support Box which supported the DuraTech chimney pipe. On the interior, I’d like to close it off at the Support Box. Any thoughts on what I will need to neatly close it off? I’d like to close off with a cap like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BQPXLE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

but I’m not sure how I would adapt to my Ceiling Support Box.

For the exterior chimney, I was thinking about just wrapping some exterior weather seal tape around the chimney cap – unless someone can offer a better solution.


Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob

 

[begreen]

The cap might work, it's crimped to fit inside of another pipe. Another alternative is to seek out different insurance.

 

[Ashful]

Many insurers are going to have an issue with a stove in a rental, and I'd not want tenants using a wood stove, anyway. Too much opportunity for neglect or abuse.

 

[sportbikerider78]

You might want to ask if you could render it inoperable in some way. Seal the door shut? Remove pipe? ect...

 

[Simonkenton]

No, God Forbid I would not want a tenant operating a wood stove. We have 5 rental houses, high end places worth $250K and up. Still we get dumb ass tenants left and right. Would not trust them with a wood stove.

 

[velvetfoot]

The DVL tee that I got came with a cover. Little expensive just for the cover though. Maybe call them?
(broken link removed to https://www.northlineexpress.com/6-dvl-double-wall-black-tee-with-clean-out-cap-6dvl-t-6726.html)