A friend sent me a message this morning, asked if our son was OK. Said he had seen the fire truck go down his driveway. When I called our son, he was out shopping. Found out it was his wife's grandma's house. Glad her son was home. He said the stove got to hot...I think it did. She posted this...
Wow, looks like she just received her Christmas miracle! At least from the angle of that picture, there is a clearance to combustibles issue with that chimney install...and a structural issue too.
I don't know who installed the system. I know it made Miz Carol nervous about using ours. I explained ours was all "Class A" piping and had the correct ceiling support box mounted.
Found out a local contractor installed the stove and pipe several years ago. Evidently, he didn't know what he was doing. I've seen some of his other work too. He put a metal roof on a house...1st straight line winds that came through...about 1/3 of the roof was in the yard, panels and 1x4 strips intact. They didn't take the time to make sure it was fastened into the rafters... I don't think I would let him build is a doghouse. I think she wants to get it repaired, so she can continue to use wood heat. I can order the correct parts for her.
Someone got paid to do that?! Figures a "handyman" was involved...I was sure hoping that wasn't done by a stove shop, or a chimney "pro"...sometimes they're hacks too! If you repair it, just replace what needs replaced, frame a box around the pipe, use class A pipe doublewall insulated pipe out through the wall, ("through the wall kit") good to go. I think they have optional insulation that you can get to fill in around the pipe through the wall (inside the box) otherwise its minimum 2" to combustibles for doublewall insulated chimney pipe.
Thank goodness. She is right, instead of fretting on the thing that happened, be grateful to still have a house she can stay in. some patchwork until the repair can be done.
If we do it, it will be "Class A" for sure. Probably frame in and install a proper ceiling box, double wall from stove to ceiling and triple wall chimney pipe, like we did ours. Just go back thru the same opening.
I was mistaken! I thought that this was out through the wall...after looking at the pic again I can see now that it is up through the ceiling...sounds like you have a good handle on the situation...the only other suggestion I'd have is to use insulated doublewall chimney pipe, instead of triplewall...they are all rated for 2" CTC, but the doublewall is usually a lil cheaper, and will stay cleaner inside than air cooled triplewall (stays hotter)...there is triplewall that has both insulation and air cooled layers, which would be fine, but is spendy, and overkill honestly. Take pics and do a thread on it when you make the repairs/upgrades!
Very lucky. I wonder how many other stoves that fellow installed around town. I looked at the local live 911 incident report the other day and there was 5 structure fires at one time im the county. I wonder how many of them were from stoves?
Is that pipe going through a cut ceiling joist? Glad she's ok and it was caught before it got worse. Hopefully the contractor that did the install can somehow be held liable.
This place is in your great state, Dave. Wood Stove Pipe Kits | Chimney Pipe Kits & Parts I got all our supplies when we did our stove install. When I discovered we needed to move the stove away from the wall, I called them, the guy asked for the measurements, did some figuring and told me over the phone what pieces I needed. And it fit perfectly. Our chimney pipe is the triple wall insulated. Yep, probably overkill, but I wanted to be as safe as possible. Thanks for the suggestion, brother.
