okay guys... nice forum... and thanks for welcoming me.
heres the story / question:
i am in old building... old chimney etc etc
I built a double barrel stove...
heretofore I/we had always heated the shop with #2 oil and/or off road diesel...last 3 years it has been off road diesel...
BUT now i want to get into heating with wood. is it okay if i remove the oil burner (completely) from the equation, and pipe in the stove...? the concern is that the soot or whatever is left over from diesel burning...is it okay to run with the wood behind it w/o cleaning chimney...? Now, i have no clue how long it has been since the chimney was cleaned...
what can, or is there anything, i can do as a "diy'er" to clean and get chimney up-to-snuff for safe wood heating? My plan is to fully remove funace, and hard pipe the stove into chimney...NOT like you see it now. Last night i had a slight scare, and in full disclosure i had installed stove and used for last couple weeks...but yesterday i was given a scare, as there was smoke coming from the oil burner...as you can see in pic...while the oil burner is not seeing any service, it is still "piped" in...for the first couple weeks it was going fine...but yesterday there was smoke coming from oil burner, so i had to pull pipe off, and sprayed water down there until the smoke was stopped...
So i need/want to pull the furnace right out and get rid of that "T" up top and just straight pipe the stove in.... ? Do-ABLE? or a thimble (as i was suggested from buddy)...? my concern is that perhaps while not "in code".... BUT and/or what would i have to do to make it a safe configuration... not sure if it out of code...but for the time being so long as it is safe i am okay...codes i will deal with later...unless there is nothing here that looks to be out of code? idk...
Chimney and stove pipe cleaning? what/how does one do and need to be aware of cleaning a chimney
fwiw- i have huge sandblaster (we do coating and blasting work) and i could and would be happy to run blaster up through the chimney and remove the crap from the base chimney...? good idea? or are there better, more efficient, more reliable ways of cleaning?
heres the story / question:
i am in old building... old chimney etc etc
I built a double barrel stove...
heretofore I/we had always heated the shop with #2 oil and/or off road diesel...last 3 years it has been off road diesel...
BUT now i want to get into heating with wood. is it okay if i remove the oil burner (completely) from the equation, and pipe in the stove...? the concern is that the soot or whatever is left over from diesel burning...is it okay to run with the wood behind it w/o cleaning chimney...? Now, i have no clue how long it has been since the chimney was cleaned...
what can, or is there anything, i can do as a "diy'er" to clean and get chimney up-to-snuff for safe wood heating? My plan is to fully remove funace, and hard pipe the stove into chimney...NOT like you see it now. Last night i had a slight scare, and in full disclosure i had installed stove and used for last couple weeks...but yesterday i was given a scare, as there was smoke coming from the oil burner...as you can see in pic...while the oil burner is not seeing any service, it is still "piped" in...for the first couple weeks it was going fine...but yesterday there was smoke coming from oil burner, so i had to pull pipe off, and sprayed water down there until the smoke was stopped...
So i need/want to pull the furnace right out and get rid of that "T" up top and just straight pipe the stove in.... ? Do-ABLE? or a thimble (as i was suggested from buddy)...? my concern is that perhaps while not "in code".... BUT and/or what would i have to do to make it a safe configuration... not sure if it out of code...but for the time being so long as it is safe i am okay...codes i will deal with later...unless there is nothing here that looks to be out of code? idk...
Chimney and stove pipe cleaning? what/how does one do and need to be aware of cleaning a chimney
fwiw- i have huge sandblaster (we do coating and blasting work) and i could and would be happy to run blaster up through the chimney and remove the crap from the base chimney...? good idea? or are there better, more efficient, more reliable ways of cleaning?