I've read that if you insert the stove pipe too far into the chimney, it can negatively affect draft. We have a 6" pipe feeding into an 8" stainless steel oval liner. How far is "too far"? Half way across the liner? A quarter? A couple inches?
We're having issues with our new wood stove and the dealer thinks it could be a draft problem. We had a wood/coal stove there before this new stove and never had any problems. But the installers said that when they went to install the new stove pipe they found the old one was simply butted up against the liner, so they crimped the ends and pushed it inside. I'm wondering if it's possible that they pushed it in too far and affected the draft.
I checked the gasket on our top load door this morning and on a two week old stove, the gasket is not sealing (was able to pull out paper all the way along the front). I think that is most likely our "draft issue", but I wanted them to check the installation of that crimped stove pipe while they are here to make sure they didn't push it in too far.
Thanks.
We're having issues with our new wood stove and the dealer thinks it could be a draft problem. We had a wood/coal stove there before this new stove and never had any problems. But the installers said that when they went to install the new stove pipe they found the old one was simply butted up against the liner, so they crimped the ends and pushed it inside. I'm wondering if it's possible that they pushed it in too far and affected the draft.
I checked the gasket on our top load door this morning and on a two week old stove, the gasket is not sealing (was able to pull out paper all the way along the front). I think that is most likely our "draft issue", but I wanted them to check the installation of that crimped stove pipe while they are here to make sure they didn't push it in too far.
Thanks.