Stove exhaust vent moving and closing an old one
Meg Gal
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Home remodeling/wood stove - move chimney or replace stove?
Comments (0)I own a Vermont Castings Intrepid wood stove that is close to 17 years old and was put in by the homeowner before me. We're getting our family room remodeled and the support brackets used to keep the chimney interfere with the sunlights we are going to add to the house (it's pretty dark in this room). Regardless of what we decide in the questions below, we're getting our roof done at the same time. I have two questions: 1)Should I move the chimney flue in the attic and move the actual chimney flue outside so it doesn't obstruct the sunlights and so it can be properly stabilized (it's a very tall pipe -- maybe 10'?) OR 2)Should I replace the woodstove and consider buying a new one or a different heating device (besides my gas furnace) like perhaps a pellet or corn stove? I live near Washington DC so we don't need the woodstove ALL the time as you Northeasterners do. We burned probably 1 cord a year until we had kids and worried about their little hands getting burned. They're older now so we're not so worried. Any quick help you can provide would be great. I'm due to talk to the roofer in a few days! Thanks, Wendy...See MorePellet stove exhaust clearance
Comments (1)Never mind, I found out the reason. It seems the original installations were similar to a dryer vent (i.e., close to the wall), but the Venturi effect of winds whipping up the side of the house was causing issues with the positive pressure in the stoves (and they automatically shut off in such cases). Bumping the extension out 12-18" solved that problem, but damn does it look ugly....See More'Guess what's behind the wall' kitchen vent/exhaust fan game
Comments (5)Hi Artemis, Sound like you have a set up very similar to ours. Here is what we have/had: The old stove (gone when we moved into our 1929 house) vented into the kitchen wall into a massive 12 inch diameter flue (metal flue, lined with ceramic). This flue went up the wall, through the attic, and out the roof (along with the furnace flue). When we moved in, the original stove was gone, and this flue was not hooked up to anything. The kitchen wall was repaired, and no opening to it remained. But we could easily see the flue from a crawl space on the opposite side of it. In the ceiling was a cheapo fan that vented up through the ceiling and out the roof. I would guess that yours does go out the roof, but whether or not you can reuse any of its "guts" depends on what hood you want. Ours is too narrow for a good quality hood. So, you need to get up in that attic, and count your flues! We needed to remove our massive flue (to make space for a future bathroom upstairs), and that was a very difficult and expensive proposition. I think we also removed the venting from the ceiling fan, which was not a big deal. We currently have a lovely 1955 O'Keefe and Merritt stove in our kitchen. We have no hood, and the house smells faintly of the homemade french fries I made last night. I can't wait to have a hood! We plan to put a high powered (vintage looking) hood over the stove, and vent out the roof. We don't plan on hooking up the stove pipe, because we need the wall space. If you are already hooked up to a stove pipe, and you are keeping your stove (which I would certainly encourage you to do b/c OKM's are awesome!), then you can leave that assembly alone. Just add a hood over the stove (unless the stove pipe is physically in the way). Without the stove pipe, you end up with a hole in the top of your stove from which quite a bit of heat (and odor) escapes. I'm used to it (though worried about the noxious odor--which a hood will take care of), but it does get hot! Here is my stove. The stove pipe hole is on the top left side. The old flue was in the wall behind the stove. I hope that helps a bit... Now get in that attic, and let us know what you find!...See MoreBuilding code for kitchen exhaust venting
Comments (25)" macv The 2003 International Residential Code requires that a range hood discharge outdoors through a single-wall duct with a back draft damper and that "ducts serving range hoods shall not terminate in an attic or crawl space or areas inside the building". The one exception is when the hood is "ductless" and designed to recirculate air directly back into the kitchen. " So would the flapper door on a dryer termination count as a back draft damper? And I wonder, If you had a grease fire and your hood terminated just below your soffit, couldn't you set your soffit on fire?...See MoreMeg Gal
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