Right now I have an Englander wood burning stove. It has an 8" flue pipe going into a clay lined chimney that is approximately 30 feet tall with two flues (one opening in the basement where the stove is and another on 1st floor that does not have a stove at all; however, both flues run full length of the chimney). We constantly have moisture coming down the inside of the chimney and running out the back all over the floor. That creosote mixture is hard to get off the tile floor.
I am considering going to a pellet stove, utilizing the same chimney to vent the gases. Is there any more or less moisture from the pellet stoves? I just don't want to have another mess with the water/creosote coming out. Should I have an outside source of combustion air? (Currently utilize room air for combustion) If I need the external combustion air, could it be possible to use the unused flue?
We really only had this problem for the last couple of years since I opened up the cleaning port one day and took out 20 gallons of creosote that built up over time. The chimney sweeps I hired to clean it just pushed all the old creosote down the flue where it dropped in the bottom 4 feet of flue.
Thanks for the help,
Niteshift
I am considering going to a pellet stove, utilizing the same chimney to vent the gases. Is there any more or less moisture from the pellet stoves? I just don't want to have another mess with the water/creosote coming out. Should I have an outside source of combustion air? (Currently utilize room air for combustion) If I need the external combustion air, could it be possible to use the unused flue?
We really only had this problem for the last couple of years since I opened up the cleaning port one day and took out 20 gallons of creosote that built up over time. The chimney sweeps I hired to clean it just pushed all the old creosote down the flue where it dropped in the bottom 4 feet of flue.
Thanks for the help,
Niteshift