Hello everybody! I've been lurking this forum on and off for a year trying to absorb your infinite wisdom and I'll soon be purchasing our first wood stove. I'm plenty familiar with fire and wood stove operation but I've never owned one. So a few things that I've never had to think about before have been popping up.
We have a farmers porch on the side of our two story colonial. There is an alcove in our dining room that protrudes 2ft onto this porch. We are going to install the stove in the alcove. The stove pipe would then go through the roof of the farmers porch and up along side the house. All clearances required by the local authorities and the manufacturer will be met. My problem is deciding whether I should vent out of the top of the stove straight up through the ceiling of the alcove or have a 90 degree bend, go through the wall to a "T", and the up through the roof of the farmers porch.
To illustrate what the installs would end up looking like, here is a quick sketch. It is not to scale.
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Obviously, Option 1 is the best. It is the straightest run, will have the best draft. Option 2 has a bunch of bends but cleaning would be easier right? Just open up the cleanout and go up from there? Here is my dilhema. I want to install the chimney per option 1 but how do you clean a stove with a top vent? I was planning on using a tool like the SootEater to clean the chimney. Isn't there a bunch of stuff in the stove that is in the way? Do I have to take the chimney pipe apart or does something on the inside of the stove come out? It seems cleaning Option 1 might be very messy.
I am planning on installing a Quadra-Fire 3100 Millennium if that makes a difference. Thanks!
We have a farmers porch on the side of our two story colonial. There is an alcove in our dining room that protrudes 2ft onto this porch. We are going to install the stove in the alcove. The stove pipe would then go through the roof of the farmers porch and up along side the house. All clearances required by the local authorities and the manufacturer will be met. My problem is deciding whether I should vent out of the top of the stove straight up through the ceiling of the alcove or have a 90 degree bend, go through the wall to a "T", and the up through the roof of the farmers porch.
To illustrate what the installs would end up looking like, here is a quick sketch. It is not to scale.
(broken image removed)
Obviously, Option 1 is the best. It is the straightest run, will have the best draft. Option 2 has a bunch of bends but cleaning would be easier right? Just open up the cleanout and go up from there? Here is my dilhema. I want to install the chimney per option 1 but how do you clean a stove with a top vent? I was planning on using a tool like the SootEater to clean the chimney. Isn't there a bunch of stuff in the stove that is in the way? Do I have to take the chimney pipe apart or does something on the inside of the stove come out? It seems cleaning Option 1 might be very messy.
I am planning on installing a Quadra-Fire 3100 Millennium if that makes a difference. Thanks!