Installed Englander 30NC

[oldspark]

Looks good highbeam, I have my ceiling box installed and plan on getting the hole in the roof cut today and chimney installed this weekend, trying to beat the wet crappy weather.

 

[Highbeam]

I was curious if your thermometer is one meant for stovetop or singlewall pipe. I bought a magnetic one but can't remember which it was. Today I put it in the oven at 375 and it read 575 - 600. So I assume the one I have is for single pipe trying to tell me the internal temp. I've been placing it on the stove and getting 6 - 700 so was a bit concerned but now I see it's not that hot.
If yours happened to be a stovetop one then your inside pipe temps would be much higher than that 450 number. Just a thought after I tested mine.

Surface temp meters such as our stove meters are not meant to measure air temps such as in an oven. You should get a strange number in the oven and that test won't tell you anything. My surface temp meter is a condar or a rutland and is meant for either pipe or stove top so long as it is a surface. Internal temp of the flue is usually twice that of the surface on single wall pipe.

I did some high temp testing yesterday and created a whole new load of smoke in the shop from burnt paint. This time I was measuring stove temps and it was up near 800 where the needle on the meter gets sticky, and jumpy. The pipe made all sorts of new smoke so I can only imagine that the pipe temps were much higher than 450.