Has anyone hooked up an OAK to their Mansfield not using the Hearthstone OAK system? If so how did you do it ?Thanks.
Hi Ed,how will you attach the piping to the Heritage?Edthedawg said:Once I get my bathrooms rebuilt upstairs and have some time to work on Other Things again, I have the pieces to assemble an OAK for the Heritage . Just grabbed a bunch of straight pipe, flexduct, and adjustable angle sections. Only issue left is where to put the hole up from the basement so it isn't too obtrusive. Might do something crazy w/ the old ash cleanout trapdoor and run in there, but that would require a lot of dirtywork that I may opt not to bother with...
Hi Highbeam,thanks for the encouragment.I think I'll go with the HS adaptor.Take care.Highbeam said:I used the HS adapter and couldn't have done it properly without it. The adapter provides a 3" nipple that nicely slides into the 3" aluminum duct and then I clamp the duct onto the nipple for a dang good connection. Why not buy the adapter? You could do a halfa$$ OAK by just providing ventialtion near the stove and that would solve the burning problems that people often solve with OAK but you wouldn't get the benefits of a sealed combustion system. That loose fitting OAK line would be dumping air into your room all the time. My OAK tube would flow a healthy current of air before I hooked it up to the stove.
In a pinch you could stuff the aluminum duct into the stove and seal with furnace cement, maybe aluminum foil too.
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