Bushmans
Smoke Dragon Herder
Ahhhhh!
Welcome September. I am actually looking forward to colder weather. Summer has been a bummer this year. Cool and rainy for most of it. When it was hot it was really hot like 90 plus. Michigan is renowned for it's great summers but I guess this year was not the year. Oh well you can't win all the time!
I am also looking forward to using my "new" wood stove. I sold a lot of firewood late last winter and over the summer and almost paid for the new stove install in cash. The chimney is in place and I am waiting for the through the wall thimble and the adapter piece to be delivered. Everything else I bought from a person here in Michigan. She didn't have the thimble or the adapter and i had to order it online. The stuff from the local big box stores won't match up.
Basically what I did was to remove the fireplace insert and the inner and secondary liners of the triple wall air cooled chimney. I left the outer pipe in place. I did cut some of it away just above where the fireplace used to connect to it. It had an offset in the chimney so I removed it all.
I decided to leave the outer pipe in place and use that as a secondary chimney"chase" if you will. The new chimney I am using is class A double wall insulated stainless steel with a 1.5" clearance to combustibles. Reading online it is the only chimney system available with that rating. Up to 1000 degree continuous operating temps and 2100 operating temps at a 10 minute spike.
I wasn't worried about hot temps I was more worried about cold temps. The chimney chase is essentially outside of the house although half of it is in the garage it is still cold. I thought by leaving the pipe and running the new one through it I would have a little extra insulating factor. There will be a one inch air gap between the two. I am hoping this will help with my draft and clean burning. I will also be able to utilize the old chimney cap as it mounts to the outside pipe.
I will stuff the ends of the gap with some insulation to keep the bugs and what not from coming down the pipe as well as holding in the heat.
I built a heavy duty stand to hold the entire new chimney in place and I also have it strapped in with wire. It may be overkill but oh well. There will be a service door located on the chase wall so I can access the clean out in the tee.I should be able to tie a garbage bag around the tee and go up on the roof and brush the chimney and everything will fall right in the bag.
With the install almost complete I need to turn my attention to the woodpile. I quit selling the wood because I was reaching my 2 year mark. I didn't want to get below that without replenishing it. The big unsplit pile is Hard Maple, oak, hickory and some cherry. All the Maple was cut green this spring. Everything else was cut green last summer. Today I will be splitting it all.
I have a few things lined up for cutting this year. A friend had some logging done and offered to share some of his tops with me. All Red Oak. Good Stuff!
I also have some more Hard Maple to cut once the crops are out of the field.
I will update more once the other pieces arrive and I get the stove in the house!
Welcome September. I am actually looking forward to colder weather. Summer has been a bummer this year. Cool and rainy for most of it. When it was hot it was really hot like 90 plus. Michigan is renowned for it's great summers but I guess this year was not the year. Oh well you can't win all the time!
I am also looking forward to using my "new" wood stove. I sold a lot of firewood late last winter and over the summer and almost paid for the new stove install in cash. The chimney is in place and I am waiting for the through the wall thimble and the adapter piece to be delivered. Everything else I bought from a person here in Michigan. She didn't have the thimble or the adapter and i had to order it online. The stuff from the local big box stores won't match up.
Basically what I did was to remove the fireplace insert and the inner and secondary liners of the triple wall air cooled chimney. I left the outer pipe in place. I did cut some of it away just above where the fireplace used to connect to it. It had an offset in the chimney so I removed it all.
I decided to leave the outer pipe in place and use that as a secondary chimney"chase" if you will. The new chimney I am using is class A double wall insulated stainless steel with a 1.5" clearance to combustibles. Reading online it is the only chimney system available with that rating. Up to 1000 degree continuous operating temps and 2100 operating temps at a 10 minute spike.
I wasn't worried about hot temps I was more worried about cold temps. The chimney chase is essentially outside of the house although half of it is in the garage it is still cold. I thought by leaving the pipe and running the new one through it I would have a little extra insulating factor. There will be a one inch air gap between the two. I am hoping this will help with my draft and clean burning. I will also be able to utilize the old chimney cap as it mounts to the outside pipe.
I will stuff the ends of the gap with some insulation to keep the bugs and what not from coming down the pipe as well as holding in the heat.
I built a heavy duty stand to hold the entire new chimney in place and I also have it strapped in with wire. It may be overkill but oh well. There will be a service door located on the chase wall so I can access the clean out in the tee.I should be able to tie a garbage bag around the tee and go up on the roof and brush the chimney and everything will fall right in the bag.
With the install almost complete I need to turn my attention to the woodpile. I quit selling the wood because I was reaching my 2 year mark. I didn't want to get below that without replenishing it. The big unsplit pile is Hard Maple, oak, hickory and some cherry. All the Maple was cut green this spring. Everything else was cut green last summer. Today I will be splitting it all.
I have a few things lined up for cutting this year. A friend had some logging done and offered to share some of his tops with me. All Red Oak. Good Stuff!
I also have some more Hard Maple to cut once the crops are out of the field.
I will update more once the other pieces arrive and I get the stove in the house!
