This is my second year of burning even though we burned when I was a kid growing up but we had none of the luxuries of the new type stoves then. My question is I have a damper on my 6" chimney pipe about 3 feet above my stove should I be using this at all. I have not used this damper I just use the air damper on the stove itself. This piece of pipe came with the stove and previous owner told me to use the damper since he did, the rest of the chimney is all new pipe. Just wondering if any one does use a damper on their chimney pipe and how should it be used.