stove pipe smells

[coal and wood man]

Hi all,
Replaced the 6 inch stove pipe last with a Duravent adjustable pipe. This was April 2024. It still stinks. It has even been setting off my smoke alarm. Well I purchased it from Home Depot on my Home Depot credit card and have 365 days to return it. It is going back as soon as I replace it.

Does anyone have suggestions for a good pipe brand? I would even consider porcelean enamel (black). I am also willing to take the new pipe into my shop and fire it hot to cure the paint. I can deal with my shop stinking better than my house. I have seen Ventis stove pipe but have never used it - is it a good product?

Thanks,

 

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[bholler]

Hi all,
Replaced the 6 inch stove pipe last with a Duravent adjustable pipe. This was April 2024. It still stinks. It has even been setting off my smoke alarm. Well I purchased it from Home Depot on my Home Depot credit card and have 365 days to return it. It is going back as soon as I replace it.

Does anyone have suggestions for a good pipe brand? I would even consider porcelean enamel (black). I am also willing to take the new pipe into my shop and fire it hot to cure the paint. I can deal with my shop stinking better than my house. I have seen Ventis stove pipe but have never used it - is it a good product?

Thanks,

Yes ventis smells less but it should be cured by now? Is thos on a coal stove or a wood stove?

 

[EatenByLimestone]

Hot metal smell? Or paint smell? Are you sending all the heat up the flue?

 

[moresnow]

Post pics of the stove/pipe installation.
What make/model stove?
Describe the entire venting setup from stove collar to termination.
Have you swept the entire system recently?
Do you have a screen at the cap?

 

[coal and wood man]

Paint smell from the stove pipe. I am used to some smell from new stove pipe but it should not last for months. Not wood smoke, chimney is cleaned yearly and the stove pipe goes straight up to the flue with no bends and chimney pipe is Selkirk metalbestos right through the house. Vermont castings Resolute (1989) wood burner so the stove is not using a cat. I run it hot and never use wet wood. It is not creosote smell.

 

[Eman85]

I replaced my pipe with double wall pipe a couple of years ago. If I let the stove get a little hot with the damper open the pipe still gives off a smell. You can see the difference in pipe, the lower half is duller looking than the upper. We use it as a gauge when we're not in the stove room, smell lets us know we screwed up and didn't close the damper or turn the air down.

 

[coal and wood man]

I have run this stove for 35 years and the old stove pipe lost its smell after a few hard burns. This stove pipe does not so I am going to replace it but don't want to but another pipe that will smell for months. That is why I am looking at the Ventis pipe. It looks like a good product.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

How hot are you running it?

 

[begreen]

Is this Duravent's single or double-walled stove pipe? What stove is it connected to?

Pictures are welcome and can help us spot possible issues that may be contributing.

 

[coal and wood man]

I have no problem running the stove at 500 - 600 degrees even with the baffle open measured on the griddle and that is when it really starts to smell like paint. What I suspect here is the stove pipe is the extendable type and not fixed pieces which are cut to length. There is some overlap with the upper sleeve and the lower pipe and I suspect that the upper sleeve where it is overlapping the lower may be the culprit and is not getting hot enough to fully cure. Also the top of the pipe is over top of the chimney connector and it may not be getting hot enough to burn off the smell. The chimney connector sleeve is a good 16 inches inside the stove pipe and there is about an 6 inch overlap where the two pieces meet. This is also single wall stove pipe. No worries with the clearance the back wall is plaster over brick. I do not run the stove so hot as to make the pipe glow.

 

[begreen]

I'm wondering if the smell is not the stove pipe paint, but smoke leakage. How snug or well sealed is the flue collar connection. It looks like there is a little grey area at the extension joint on the stovepipe.

What is the distance from the stove top to the chimney connector?

 

[coal and wood man]

66 inches. I have been burning wood for 35 years and have 3 stoves. I know the difference between paint or chemical odors and smoke or even creosote orders. I appreciate all the help and suggestions though. 😀

 

[begreen]

66 inches. I have been burning wood for 35 years and have 3 stoves. I know the difference between paint or chemical odors and smoke or even creosote orders. I appreciate all the help and suggestions though. 😀

66" is just within the acceptable extension range for that pipe. Could be a bad batch of paint affecting the pipe.