Hello to any experienced woodstove chimney people....
We have got ourselves into a very difficult position by having taken
bad advice and done all the wrong things with a woodstove. Any
opinions & ideas much appreciated - we are very despondent at the
moment. (We also have very little spare money!! I'm retired)

Last autumn we installed a largish box woodstove (Jotul 602N) in a
masonry chimney (brick built in about 1935) having been told it was in
good nick and we could put the stove straight into it through a baffle
plate. We did. Because we needed constant background heat we burned
the stove near tight shut all winter - the worst way, now we know, for
creosote/tar build up. Made worse by a cold loft space the chimney went
up thro.

Result, tar seeping out of the chimney pointing. We got new advice and
were told we had no option but to brick the chimney up, never use it
again, and install a separate insulated flue.
Do we have any other safe options which will let use re-use our
chimney? Any way of cleaning up effectively? Lining with insulated
flexible liner - would that be safe in the circs?

Help please.....

Ask the place you bought the stove from or find the web site for the
stove manufacturer if you can put the insulated metal tubing directly
up the chimney. You mentioned a curve does the chimney flue curve in
order to accomodate 2 separate flues? It does come in angled joints
but you might have to open the chimney breast to get it in and then
you'll need a bricky. What size and kind of insulated tubing do you
need I just tore out about 8 feet of it used in back of a gas burner.
What's to stop the creosote tar building up in the isnulatde pipe would
be my next question.

Dave T Scotland wrote:
Hello to any experienced woodstove chimney people....
We have got ourselves into a very difficult position by having taken
bad advice and done all the wrong things with a woodstove. Any
opinions & ideas much appreciated - we are very despondent at the
moment. (We also have very little spare money!! I'm retired)

Last autumn we installed a largish box woodstove (Jotul 602N) in a
masonry chimney (brick built in about 1935) having been told it was in
good nick and we could put the stove straight into it through a baffle
plate. We did. Because we needed constant background heat we burned
the stove near tight shut all winter - the worst way, now we know, for
creosote/tar build up. Made worse by a cold loft space the chimney went
up thro.

Result, tar seeping out of the chimney pointing. We got new advice and
were told we had no option but to brick the chimney up, never use it
again, and install a separate insulated flue.
Do we have any other safe options which will let use re-use our
chimney? Any way of cleaning up effectively? Lining with insulated
flexible liner - would that be safe in the circs?

Help please.....

You might try contacting Dale W. Feb, of F.I.R.E.

http://www.f-i-r-e-service.com/

and ask if he can recommend someone in you area to evaluate your
situtation and suggest alternatives.

Michael Thomas
Paragon Home Inspection, LLC
Chicago, IL
mdATparagoninspectsDOTcom
847-475-5668

You don't say where you live but there are construction recycling non
profit groups that might have the pipe you need. I think one of them
is called Stardust foundation.

MDT at Paragon Home Inspections, LLC wrote:
You might try contacting Dale W. Feb, of F.I.R.E.

http://www.f-i-r-e-service.com/

and ask if he can recommend someone in you area to evaluate your
situtation and suggest alternatives.

Michael Thomas
Paragon Home Inspection, LLC
Chicago, IL
mdATparagoninspectsDOTcom
847-475-5668