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Title: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: dumbodog00 on October 24, 2011, 12:35:49 PM
I have a Hardy H2 that I would like to extend the chimney on.  It comes out of the top instead of the rear like some other units. It also uses single wall pipe instead of double.  Anyone have any pics of chimneys that have been raised?  Any ideas how to make extend it without harming the wife's eyes?
Thanks!
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: Bull on October 24, 2011, 06:27:11 PM
You can check out my post in the hardy section on my new and improved.................
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: RSI on October 24, 2011, 09:51:19 PM
You will want to use double wall pipe if you extend it more than a couple feet. Otherwise it will get a lot of creosote built up.
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: MattyNH on October 26, 2011, 07:39:26 PM
I have a tall stack..I'll take some pics and post them..
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: MattyNH on October 31, 2011, 02:46:17 PM
 Heres a pic of my tall stack..Its up 19feet from the top of the boiler..
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: MattyNH on October 31, 2011, 03:08:19 PM
Here's another pic.. 12 gauge stainless steel wire attached to turn buckles at the boiler then  a chimney attachment ring near the top of the stack which I got from a Central Boiler Dealer
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: MattyNH on October 31, 2011, 06:49:36 PM
Matty you must have had to build a staging to get that chimney in place.
Did use a staging to a certain point..Other than that it was put up in one piece..
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: red devil on November 01, 2011, 06:47:38 PM
heck with the chimney! I thought I had alot of wood but man you have it licked. matty is there a sawmill or something behind those trees? >:D >:D
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: MattyNH on November 01, 2011, 07:39:59 PM
heck with the chimney! I thought I had alot of wood but man you have it licked. matty is there a sawmill or something behind those trees? >:D >:D
  LOL red devil... Log length wood you see in the background..Bought it Labor Day weekend.. 16 cord of hardwood  $1200.. pole size wood...I wish there was a saw mill lol...That wood there is for next winter..and no I don't burn all that wood in a season lol.. I burn 8-9 cord  during a 7 month season...
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: mcarter on November 01, 2011, 08:41:49 PM
Sweet!  Stand in one place and cut wood all day!   :D

Michael
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: Roger2561 on November 02, 2011, 11:45:30 AM
heck with the chimney! I thought I had alot of wood but man you have it licked. matty is there a sawmill or something behind those trees? >:D >:D
  LOL red devil... Log length wood you see in the background..Bought it Labor Day weekend.. 16 cord of hardwood  $1200.. pole size wood...I wish there was a saw mill lol...That wood there is for next winter..and no I don't burn all that wood in a season lol.. I burn 8-9 cord  during a 7 month season...

MattyNH;

If your name indicates the state in which you reside, I too live in NH.  It's a small town not too far from the Connecticut River about 15miles south east of Hanover, NH (Dartmouth College area) the town is called Enfield. 

I see you say you burn between 8&9 cord of wood a year.  How many square feet are heating?  I'll be heating approx. 1000 square feet of a house built in 1840 with the Central Boiler E1400 Classic.

Roger
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: MattyNH on November 02, 2011, 01:42:57 PM

Roger2561,
             Yes I do live in New Hampshire.. I know where exactly where Enfield..Up off of Interstate 89..Was working in Lebanon all last week..Square footage Im heating is 1800 plus hot water 7 months out of the year, and the house is 75F all winter.. Also my basement is warm because of the hot pipes running from the wood boiler to the oil furnace.. I got a friend of mine that lives in a house that is built in the 1700's...Wall studs are like 2x3's or something like that..Pretty much paper is the insulation..He goes through about 13-15 cord a season.. Is this your first time heating with the E-Classic?..Ive seen them around and at the dealer in Dover....Never seen one up close running.. Only in the distance..
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: dumbodog00 on November 06, 2011, 05:18:06 PM
Thank you Matty.  That gives me some ideas.
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: lp7734 on November 26, 2011, 09:05:10 AM
Just finished mine 21 feet of stack and boy did that increase my wood usage! working on moving to coal
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: lugnut on November 26, 2011, 05:42:03 PM
I have a Hardy H2 that I would like to extend the chimney on.  It comes out of the top instead of the rear like some other units. It also uses single wall pipe instead of double.  Anyone have any pics of chimneys that have been raised?  Any ideas how to make extend it without harming the wife's eyes?
Thanks!

LOL!!  You have one of those as well?  When I told my wife I was going to build a firewood storage shed she "demanded" to see plans of any sort that i had...it will NOT look ugly dear. 

Good luck with your search.  I'm quite certain these guys on here will help you out...great lot of knowledge on here.

Lugnut
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: lugnut on November 26, 2011, 05:45:59 PM
Just finished mine 21 feet of stack and boy did that increase my wood usage! working on moving to coal

Holy frights!!!  If you guys have to clean the chimneys, how on earth do you go about it?

Lugnut
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: MattyNH on November 26, 2011, 08:41:48 PM
Just finished mine 21 feet of stack and boy did that increase my wood usage! working on moving to coal

Holy frights!!!  If you guys have to clean the chimneys, how on earth do you go about it?

Lugnut
Chimney fires does the trick!...Does it on its own pretty much...
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: MattyNH on November 26, 2011, 08:43:30 PM
Just finished mine 21 feet of stack and boy did that increase my wood usage! working on moving to coal
Just curious how did it increase your wood usage because of your high stack?..
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: RSI on November 26, 2011, 10:37:00 PM
Just finished mine 21 feet of stack and boy did that increase my wood usage! working on moving to coal
Just curious how did it increase your wood usage because of your high stack?..
My guess would be that there is an air leak (at the door or fan, etc) and the longer chimney is increasing the draft enough that it pulls more air in while idling.
If there is smoke coming out the chimney now while it is idling and wasn't before that is the extra wood leaving.  lol
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: lp7734 on November 27, 2011, 05:42:24 AM
Rsi I thinkyour right what is now happing is that the extra draft is causing the flapper on fan to open during my idling times. thinking that i might angle the fan and flaper to get gravity to help me.
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: beeman on November 27, 2011, 07:55:23 AM
ive moved mine up to 10 feet and it dose seem to use a little  more wood
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: dumbodog00 on November 27, 2011, 08:59:16 AM
7734 how do you have that stack braced? 

Everyone else, thank you so far for the pics you have provided!
Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: lp7734 on November 27, 2011, 03:10:09 PM
here is a pic. I made the bracketing from 1 inch x 3/16 angle

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Title: Re: Anyone Have Tall Chimney Pics?
Post by: pintopaul on November 27, 2011, 05:19:17 PM
i need to extend my chimney not by 20 ft but something like maybe 6 to 8 ft,problem is it measures8 1/4 inside and 8 1/2 outside . i cant seem to come across anything like that other than a piece of cast water pipe from like the town water line but its to dam heavy. :bash: