Diagram installation pipe stove

Often, these older chimneys are not safe to use without some upgrading. They can be lined with approved stainless steel pipe or restored with special masonry processes ask your chimney sweep. Pay special attention to the wall pass-through, which is the area where your stove pipe will connect to your chimney.

Any wood or combustible material in this are must be cut back to comply with building codes. Special insulated sleeves are available to accomplish this transition. As previously mentioned, it is not to be used for passing through Walls, Floors or Ceilings. Single wall stovepipe is designed to connect a wood stove to a nearby chimney.

It is available in different thicknesses 24 ga. Some manufacturers produce stovepipe in porcelain enamel colors to match their stoves. This distance can be reduced in two different ways:. Stovepipe can usually be trimmed to size with a tin shears or other cutting or grinding tool — see:. Heavier gauge pipe can be more difficult to cut, so these pipes use adjustable slip joints, which eliminate the need for trimming.

When assembling your stove pipe use black furnace cement to seal between each piece. In addition, use three sheet metal screws at each joint in the pipe. This is a double wall stovepipe with a stainless steel inner wall and a black painted outer wall.

Do not confuse this double-wall interior piping with the Class A Chimney described in the beginning of this document—this stuff is for interior use only! Ask your Hearth Dealer for more information about this type of Stove pipe. My first experience with lack of proper floor protection came when I was homesteading in West Virginia.

Our house had no central heating, but there was a fireplace ready to serve our heating needs. That night, we lit a roaring fire and settled in for a peaceful winter eve. Suddenly, we smelled something burning! After a frantic search we discovered that the floor underneath the fireplace hearth was smoldering. Different stoves have different requirements, but all woodstoves need to have a non-combustible base underneath.

This base should extend a minimum of 8 inches around all sides of the stove and 18 inches in front of any loading doors. In addition, the stove board should extend underneath and horizontal run of the stovepipe connection to the chimney.

All stoves must be installed a safe distance from combustible walls. This distance can be reduced by one or both of the following methods:. Check your owners manual or local building codes to determine the size of the wall protection needed.

Check with your Hearth Retailer to see if a rear heat shield is available for the stove of your choice. You cannot use a Stovepipe through a window! Additional information on these subjects can be found on many areas of Hearth. Log in. Recent Activity.

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For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. If the male end is incorrectly pointing upwards, liquid formed by condensation will always travel down the path of least resistance, and will eventually drip outside of the pipe just like in this picture. By having the male end pointing down, any drips will fall into the female end of the pipe below and back into the stove to be burned.

Now, you may look at your stove pipe setup and say, "The male ends of my pipes are pointing up and I don't have any problems and it's been working like that for years". If it hasn't happened to leak "yet", it's only a matter of time until it does.

Changing the pipe configuration will take the "yet" out of the equation and prevent it from happening entirely. Posted in Chimney Pipe and Stove Pipe. Blog Categories. Recent posts. Why does my fireplace smoke in the house? What will make your fireplace energy efficient?

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