Howdy folks, Hoe you are burning clean and safe. This post is an inquiry as to how to calculate the length and pieces needed to revamp stove pipe for a Woodstock Ideal Steel. 6" double wall stove pipe. Background: 2015 Woodstock Ideal Steel. Stove pipe is 6" Selkirk double wall, chimney pipe is Selkirk stainless Insulated double wall Setup: Woodstock Ideal Steel with outside air intake, Selkirk Double wall stove pipe and Selkirk Insulated stainless chimney pipe. There is one 90-degree bend in to stove pipe and then a 90-degree transition where the stove pipe hits the thimble and and goes into the chimney pipe. I would like to convert the single stove pipe 90-degree elbow to two 45-degree junctions. Will this help with draft? I hope so. What pieces are needed? There are a flap load of stove pipe pieces already in place. The question is, how to calculate what lengths are needed aside from the obvious two 45-degree junctions? I can provide precise measurements from stove height to thimble, however, any input would be appreciated before purchase as some vendors are saying that there are no returns on Selkirk Double wall stovepipe.
Take a Selkirk scan through the Menards website. You may find what you are looking for. There are a few different lengths of telescopic sections available that may help fit everything together. Worth a look.
Converting the exhaust from 90 degree to two 45 degree angles will make a big difference in your draft. I did this on my harman wood furnace after 30 years of burning. I don’t know why I didn’t think to do this years ago. It was even installed by a stove dealer who never suggested this.
But if you really just want to do a piece of rigid pipe, lay out the current 90* measurements on a piece of graph paper, then see where you are at on a 45
Howdy: thanks so much for recommending Menards. Their price was less than half of the site I had been looking at and a bunch of parts were ordered today. May you receive three free cords of extra dry red oak, pizza and beer in 2024!
