- Dec 14, 2005
- 177
I have a water problem since I stopped using the pellet stove last year.
Everytime theres nasty weather outside water finds its way inside the flue pipe and ends up at the bottom of the Tcap.
With particular on long rainy days I have to empty the tcap several times.
I have checked the pipe and there are no holes, the water is coming from the cap.
I have replaced it with this cap
(broken link removed to http://www.hardwareandtools.com/Selkirk-243800-VP-Pellet-Pipe-3-Inch-Pellet-Vertical-Cap-6266654.html)
thinking that it would help but it made no difference.
Before this was the cap I had :
(broken link removed to http://www.homehardware.ca/en/rec/index.htm/_/N-67lZ2pqf/Ne-67n/Ntk-All_EN/R-I5533026?Ntt=pellet)
It doesnt help when it rains its usually very windy as well and the pipe goes up the roof several feet so theres no protection against the winds whatsoever.
Besides blocking completely the cap is there anything else I can do to prevent water from getting inside the flue?
Obviously when I had the stove running as my main heating source this was not a problem (never noticed it), but now its used as a secondary heat source I cant have water inside the pipe.
Thanks
Everytime theres nasty weather outside water finds its way inside the flue pipe and ends up at the bottom of the Tcap.
With particular on long rainy days I have to empty the tcap several times.
I have checked the pipe and there are no holes, the water is coming from the cap.
I have replaced it with this cap
(broken link removed to http://www.hardwareandtools.com/Selkirk-243800-VP-Pellet-Pipe-3-Inch-Pellet-Vertical-Cap-6266654.html)
thinking that it would help but it made no difference.
Before this was the cap I had :
(broken link removed to http://www.homehardware.ca/en/rec/index.htm/_/N-67lZ2pqf/Ne-67n/Ntk-All_EN/R-I5533026?Ntt=pellet)
It doesnt help when it rains its usually very windy as well and the pipe goes up the roof several feet so theres no protection against the winds whatsoever.
Besides blocking completely the cap is there anything else I can do to prevent water from getting inside the flue?
Obviously when I had the stove running as my main heating source this was not a problem (never noticed it), but now its used as a secondary heat source I cant have water inside the pipe.
Thanks