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[lugnut]

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

[MattyNH]

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...

[MattyNH]

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?..

[RSI]

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

[lp7734]

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.

[beeman]

ive moved mine up to 10 feet and it dose seem to use a little  more wood

[dumbodog00]

7734 how do you have that stack braced? 

Everyone else, thank you so far for the pics you have provided!

[lp7734]

here is a pic. I made the bracketing from 1 inch x 3/16 angle

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[pintopaul]

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.