Thank you! This was very helpful. Newly divorced Single mom of 3 that recently discovered the stove in my house had an 8 inch exit pipe but a 6 inch chimney. My fires always kicked smoke back in the house. Replacing stove to a 6" exit pipe and your video makes me feel I can reconnect it myself. Thank you again! Clear explanation and I appreciated the demonstration of the matches.
Perfect video & explanation! Direct and to the point covering all needed topics ( no rambling on & on) I wish all UA-cam “how to videos “ followed your direction 👍
I hooked my stove up and started it just yesterday. I was told the exact opposite. After one day of use, I noticed a streak of creosote on the outside of my pipe and more smoke smell than should be. After watching your video, I’ll be taking the pipe back apart and reinstalling the correct way…(as soon as the fire dies out😅). Thanks for the great information….makes complete sense everything you said !!!
Thank you for making it clear on the proper way of installing a wood stove pipe. The first stove I ever hooked up I did the opposite way and the creosote did run out of pipe. I'm going to be hooking up another wood stove here this weekend. Thank you again
Kevin, well you probably just saved our lives. We have a cook woodstove with a magic heat unit. Its been installed for two years and its a mess of creosote to clean out. We installed the pipes the other way than you described here and for 2 years we have had to take it apart often to clean it out. Our fires have not been effective and we have had two chimney fires even. My husband went to a stove place because one of the pipes never seems to connect the way you say and they even crimped it for us hearing what we wanted to do. If someone just goes to get stove pipe they would automatically just install it the other way. Thanks so much!!!!
cook stoves are not great design. the anytime smoke travels thru angles it cools and leaves creosote. I clean my cook stove every 2 weeks during winter with a wood stove vacuum, self deigned scraper and metal putty knife. i used a 6inch wire pipe brush and 10' of fiber rod to clean pipe. Any time you have a stove that is hard to start and will not burn, the stove/pipe needs to be clean. as for burning out creosote, 1. heat fatigues metal, the hotter the pipe the more years you take off it life span. 2. if your stove pipe goes thru a roof or attic, how do you know that there is not a minor leak or defect that an ember travels into your rafter or attic, then your off to the races. 3. where do the ember travel outside your stove pipe, land on your roof or near by fuel source. things to think about...love my cook stove. but its heavy on maintenance
Thanks for explaining the WHY behind the upper pipes inside and not outside the pipes above! I had a feeling there was a correct way for them to be put together! Smart! 😉
Thank you so much for clearing that up! I was scratching my head why it was seeming backwards how the pipes fit together. The arrows on the pipe seamed backwards to how it seems it should be but they must not be wrong. I watched your video and your match example makes me feel much more comfortable now.
WOW...Thank you sir. I would have never ever thought this was the way to install Wood Stove pipe. This should be the standard for all to install. Excellent Video. Thank you!
Thanks man! I just bought a house that has a wood burning stove and I noticed the chimney pipe was installed like yours and I thought, oh no, smoke is going to come out of the pipe! I have a 24’ ceiling and was crappin’ my pants about the logistics around fixing my “improperly installed” stove pipe. What you’re saying here makes perfection sense. Thanks again!
@@Robinson-Homestead I am about to install as well, this coming week. Thank you for this info. We have a chimney. But we have to install from a new stove, to the ceiling. Where there is the chimney part, coming out of the ceiling. Hoping we install everything correctly. Can't afford a professional install. SO, I take it that you are not supposed to put any sealant on the pipe sections? I seen some type of sealant for sale. Wondering what it is for.
I'm a new subscriber. You are the best. No one else is taking the time to address these fine details about proper installation of the telescoping flue pipe. I am very grateful for you and your knowledge. Thanks again for all of your shared wisdom 🪵🪓✨🔥💗
I took apart my stove pipe (to clean it) and reinstalled it today, but it didn't make sense to me that the female end would go outside the male end on the way up from the stove. I thought the previous owners had screwed up...until I saw this video. Thanks my man!
Very good information being shared in a relatable and easy to follow and understand way. Thank you so much! The matchstick/smoke trick should be all I need to make my bf understand what I've been saying about the draft being off because he had the pipe upside down. You have such a warm and down to earth energy and have a way with explaining things! 🖤✨
Buddy I'm glad I watched your video. My intuition was telling me to put the pipe in opposite of what you were saying because I assumed I would be belching smoke into my house. Thanks a million!
Thank you for this video. I was looking on the internet for high heat vent tape to seal the stove pipe joints.... Now that I've seen your fantastic explanation I know that those gaps will NOT be a problem. Thank You !
I had a house that was sealed so tight that the gaps were a problem. When somebody turned on the dryer, a bathroom fan, or the kitchen exhaust fan it would suck smoke into the house. I had to start cracking a window when using the stove.
Thank you for explaining this! I was about to install it the other way because that made sense to me. But after you explained it, it makes complete sense to do it the other way!
Great help to show how and why to assemble the pipe connections like that. When my the fire is set very low, it creates quite a bit of smoke, some of which gets inside the room from around the pipe joints. I’m planning to buy some compound to put around the joints.
You don't need compound you need to extend your pipe higher you are not getting enough draft or if you have a new home open a window. Could be to air tight.
You actually really helped. We live on the slope side of a hill, and the earth moved a ton, so much to move the fireplace stack off center. That said, all of a sudden, this “juice” came down from the ceiling box. If you have anymore advice, please do!
Thank you for the video Kevin. Having recently re-installed my flue pipes, I worried they might be the wrong way around. Fortunately they weren't. Your video dispelled my concerns.
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Man that makes perfect sense. Not sure why I didn't look at it like that in the first place!! But now you got me switching everything around as we speak!! Lol duhhhhhhh!! 😂
To the newbies. I use Duravent double wall stove pipe. Each Duravent pipe is clearly labeled as to the direction of installation. In addition there is no way or need to add additional seal to the inside stainless steel wall. The outer wall is strictly a buffer so you don't burn the house down. Heat from the pipe air gap (between the inner and outer walls) enters the living space via convection. The top of these stoves have a "normal" operating temperature of 300 to 500 degrees - nothing to mess with.
Thank You! You definitely solved the whole female to male connection conundrum for me. I was scratching my head trying to figure out why all the connections were "wrong" lol
Thanks for video, I should have watched before I was told that my pipes were backwards so I started to reverse the direction but that advice was not correct. You have it right.
Great video much appreciated the explanation of why it goes this way, it's not intuitive as you would look at it and think it should go the other way, really good job thank you.
I installed my woodstove today and I have my stacks exactly like you recommend but all my Smoke detectors started screaming! I even did your match test so I don't know why the detectors are going off. But in fairness they go off when my wife is cooking ( No....stuff isn't burning!). Seems like they are way to sensitive. I opened a couple windows and that helped.
Thanks mate I was concerned about the little gaps when joint my flu and was wondering if I needed to seal them with a sealer but this answered my question. 👍🏻
I would seal it thru and thru my uncle is a master plumber and hvac your reasoning is fine but a sealed correctly drafted stove should have no gaps idk if it dose suck a match in if a obstruction would semi seal your pipe and mess the draft up it will fill your house with smoke I've been on them.kind of botched jobs....just my opinion
never seen it explained that way. We use wood to heat or home when I was a kid. Our pipe was ran the other way an was always told to not run it the other way. But I guess lol. thanks for the video.
Good explanation. Its counter intuitive to install this way and if you had just said to do it that way because you know best I would have ignored you. It's hard to ignore logic and proof though. Thanks for providing both.
I was told the stack is backwards what you say, but your reasoning is far better than the other person's. Thanks for your video!!!
Thank you for watching and for the comment.
Thank you! This was very helpful. Newly divorced Single mom of 3 that recently discovered the stove in my house had an 8 inch exit pipe but a 6 inch chimney. My fires always kicked smoke back in the house. Replacing stove to a 6" exit pipe and your video makes me feel I can reconnect it myself. Thank you again! Clear explanation and I appreciated the demonstration of the matches.
This video may help to ua-cam.com/video/qw71f9oZV_c/v-deo.html thanks for watching.
How'd that single motherhood decision work out for you
Ive watched TONS OF videos about installation and you have EXPLAINED this way better than anyone I have watched!!
Thank you for watching I am glad to help.
Your comment saved me lots of time lookibg for the best install video.
KUDOS to you both!
Perfect video & explanation! Direct and to the point covering all needed topics ( no rambling on & on) I wish all UA-cam “how to videos “ followed your direction 👍
Thank you for the comment glad I could help.
I would of put the pipe opposite of how you did, im glad I u tubed your video, you taught this old retired operator a valuable lesson thanks.
well Patrick im so glad i could help you out, i used to inspect chimneys back in the day.
I hooked my stove up and started it just yesterday. I was told the exact opposite. After one day of use, I noticed a streak of creosote on the outside of my pipe and more smoke smell than should be. After watching your video, I’ll be taking the pipe back apart and reinstalling the correct way…(as soon as the fire dies out😅). Thanks for the great information….makes complete sense everything you said !!!
Thank you so much for the comment you will get it
If I can help let me know.
Your explanation is the best period.
Glad to help
Thank you for making it clear on the proper way of installing a wood stove pipe. The first stove I ever hooked up I did the opposite way and the creosote did run out of pipe. I'm going to be hooking up another wood stove here this weekend. Thank you again
Glad it helped!
Thanks for the comment.
Kevin, well you probably just saved our lives. We have a cook woodstove with a magic heat unit. Its been installed for two years and its a mess of creosote to clean out. We installed the pipes the other way than you described here and for 2 years we have had to take it apart often to clean it out. Our fires have not been effective and we have had two chimney fires even. My husband went to a stove place because one of the pipes never seems to connect the way you say and they even crimped it for us hearing what we wanted to do. If someone just goes to get stove pipe they would automatically just install it the other way. Thanks so much!!!!
cook stoves are not great design. the anytime smoke travels thru angles it cools and leaves creosote. I clean my cook stove every 2 weeks during winter with a wood stove vacuum, self deigned scraper and metal putty knife. i used a 6inch wire pipe brush and 10' of fiber rod to clean pipe. Any time you have a stove that is hard to start and will not burn, the stove/pipe needs to be clean. as for burning out creosote, 1. heat fatigues metal, the hotter the pipe the more years you take off it life span. 2. if your stove pipe goes thru a roof or attic, how do you know that there is not a minor leak or defect that an ember travels into your rafter or attic, then your off to the races. 3. where do the ember travel outside your stove pipe, land on your roof or near by fuel source. things to think about...love my cook stove. but its heavy on maintenance
Thanks for explaining the WHY behind the upper pipes inside and not outside the pipes above! I had a feeling there was a correct way for them to be put together! Smart! 😉
It’s the first time that someone takes the time to explain the logic for the soot running dawn the centre of the pipes. Tks again
Thank you for the comment.
Thank you so much for clearing that up! I was scratching my head why it was seeming backwards how the pipes fit together. The arrows on the pipe seamed backwards to how it seems it should be but they must not be wrong. I watched your video and your match example makes me feel much more comfortable now.
Your welcome so glad i could help.
Thankyou. This was the only video that gave a clear explanation. Greatly appreciated this video.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the comment and watching.
im a solid fuel heating engineer, great video
Excellent demonstration of draft for those who have not seen it in action.
thank you for watching.
Dude DUDE THANK YOU!!! U made alot of sense to things that had me scratching my head.
Thanks for watching glad to help.
WOW...Thank you sir. I would have never ever thought this was the way to install Wood Stove pipe. This should be the standard for all to install. Excellent Video. Thank you!
Thanks for watching Richard glad I could help.
Thanks man! I just bought a house that has a wood burning stove and I noticed the chimney pipe was installed like yours and I thought, oh no, smoke is going to come out of the pipe! I have a 24’ ceiling and was crappin’ my pants about the logistics around fixing my “improperly installed” stove pipe. What you’re saying here makes perfection sense. Thanks again!
Thanks for the comment and watching Double D.
This is crazy I can’t believe all of the chimney stacks I’ve seen in the past are actually upside down great video
Thanks for the comment and watching
Im a newbie to burning wood. Got a wood stove today and this video helped me out a lot.. Appreciate it
Thanks for watching glad to help I have a few videos on wood stove and burning wood.
I'm going to install my woodburner this coming weekend. Thank you for explaining why you do what you do.
Thanks for the comment and watching Mike glad to help.
@@Robinson-Homestead I am about to install as well, this coming week. Thank you for this info. We have a chimney. But we have to install from a new stove, to the ceiling. Where there is the chimney part, coming out of the ceiling. Hoping we install everything correctly. Can't afford a professional install. SO, I take it that you are not supposed to put any sealant on the pipe sections? I seen some type of sealant for sale. Wondering what it is for.
I'm about to install a stove at home, and having been wondering why the pipes were made that way. Thanks for explaining.
Thank you for the comment and watching Gary glad to help.
Fantastic draft demo - cured the myth about joint direction for me. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I'm a new subscriber. You are the best. No one else is taking the time to address these fine details about proper installation of the telescoping flue pipe. I am very grateful for you and your knowledge. Thanks again for all of your shared wisdom 🪵🪓✨🔥💗
Thank you for subscribing and for the nice comment i really appreciate it.
I took apart my stove pipe (to clean it) and reinstalled it today, but it didn't make sense to me that the female end would go outside the male end on the way up from the stove. I thought the previous owners had screwed up...until I saw this video. Thanks my man!
Thank you for the comment and watching.
Very good information being shared in a relatable and easy to follow and understand way. Thank you so much! The matchstick/smoke trick should be all I need to make my bf understand what I've been saying about the draft being off because he had the pipe upside down. You have such a warm and down to earth energy and have a way with explaining things! 🖤✨
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much for the comment and watching.
Buddy I'm glad I watched your video. My intuition was telling me to put the pipe in opposite of what you were saying because I assumed I would be belching smoke into my house. Thanks a million!
Thanks for watching and the comment glad to help.
Hey , great video
My neighbor said I did my stove pipe install wrong .
I was second guessing myself but your explanation was clear and perfect
Thanks
Glad it helped Carmen.
Fantastic that's exactly what I needed to see . Give your self a pat on the back. That's all I needed to get started.
Great glad i could help
Brilliant simple easy to understand video that got right to the point! Thank you heaps mate.
So glad I could help.
Thank you for this video.
I was looking on the internet for high heat vent tape to seal the stove pipe joints.... Now that I've seen your fantastic explanation I know that those gaps will NOT be a problem. Thank You !
Glad I could help thank you for watching and comment.
Have you seen my new homestead channel ua-cam.com/channels/m3w8QDIiRB0U-MGVgaQ_DA.html
I had a house that was sealed so tight that the gaps were a problem. When somebody turned on the dryer, a bathroom fan, or the kitchen exhaust fan it would suck smoke into the house. I had to start cracking a window when using the stove.
@@michaelvangundy226 maybe a fresh air supply directly to your stove from outside would help. Some stoves have a spot to connect fresh air.
Excellent description of why it MUST be done this way. Thank you.
Thanks for the comment glad to help.
I did not know that people were installing their stovepipes opposite of the way shown here! Wow. Great video thank you
You would be surprised thanks for the comment.
such a lovely explanation this man is very gentle.
Thank you kindly!
Thank you for explaining this! I was about to install it the other way because that made sense to me. But after you explained it, it makes complete sense to do it the other way!
Thanks for watching glad to help
Wow, even to see the teaching about the reason that pipes are attached the way they are! This was amazing!!!
Thank you for watching Dave.
Good job Thanks for the info. I just installed our barrel burner. and was told I did it backwards. Now I knw why he was right. Thanks!!
Nothing like wood heat in my opinion , glad you got it set up the right way, thanks for watching.
Great help to show how and why to assemble the pipe connections like that.
When my the fire is set very low, it creates quite a bit of smoke, some of which gets inside the room from around the pipe joints.
I’m planning to buy some compound to put around the joints.
You don't need compound you need to extend your pipe higher you are not getting enough draft or if you have a new home open a window.
Could be to air tight.
@@Robinson-Homestead thanks for the quick response.
Adding another section of pipe may do the trick.
You actually really helped. We live on the slope side of a hill, and the earth moved a ton, so much to move the fireplace stack off center. That said, all
of a sudden, this “juice” came down from the ceiling box. If you have anymore advice, please do!
This man is a genius.
Thank you so much for the comment.
This is so counter-intuitive but very informative. I always thought the smoke would go through the gaps and into the house.
Thanks for watching glad to help.
Thank you for the video Kevin. Having recently re-installed my flue pipes, I worried they might be the wrong way around. Fortunately they weren't. Your video dispelled my concerns.
Glad it helped
Great video Kevin, I just brought a house with a wood burning stove and learned a lot from your video. Thank!
Thank you for watching glad to help Andrea Sosa.
Thank you for your detailed video. I've learned something today.
your welcome Mike
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Man that makes perfect sense. Not sure why I didn't look at it like that in the first place!! But now you got me switching everything around as we speak!! Lol duhhhhhhh!! 😂
Thanks for the comment glad to help Keith.
Kevin all these years I had that wrong holy cow Thank you and if I ever have one like this again I will do it right thanks to you
glad i could help
To the newbies. I use Duravent double wall stove pipe. Each Duravent pipe is clearly labeled as to the direction of installation. In addition there is no way or need to add additional seal to the inside stainless steel wall. The outer wall is strictly a buffer so you don't burn the house down. Heat from the pipe air gap (between the inner and outer walls) enters the living space via convection. The top of these stoves have a "normal" operating temperature of 300 to 500 degrees - nothing to mess with.
Thank you for watching.
this mans a legend. thanks for teaching FACTS
Thanks for the comment and watching glad to help
You have convinced me that the smoke is not an issue. Thanks.
I think this video has a fantastic an important information about wood stove installation. Thank you sir for your help
Thanks glad you liked it.
Fascinating stuff. 'Common sense' suggests the opposite should be the case but your explanation and demonstration proves otherwise
Thank you John
Thank You! You definitely solved the whole female to male connection conundrum for me. I was scratching my head trying to figure out why all the connections were "wrong" lol
No problem im glad to help.
Thank you so much for this video !! it’s exactly what I needed to know !!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for the comment and watching.
Great information Kevin! Thanks so much.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the comment.
Best video I ever seen on installation Kevin and its 100% vital information...Thank You from over the pnd UK
Thank you Robert I hope it helps someone.
I never would have realized that after the pipes being like that, good video, glad I watched
Thanks for the comment and watching.
Great Infromation but was hoping to see you install the chimney. Thanks for putting it out here.
Thank for watching.
first pipe vid I could sit through Kev, thanks
Thank you
Great video! Helps a lot.
Glad it helped!
Thanks so much for the comment.
Thanks for the video! Helped out a lot!
Thank you so much glad to help you.
Excellent video...would like to see where the stove pipe connects to the double wall pipe at the ceiling.
Sorry next time thanks for the comment.
You had me at yinz, thanks for the video!!
Thanks Danny glad to help.
Love the match demonstration!
Thanks for the comment
You have just saved me a lot of hassle! Can't thank you enough!!
Happy to help
Thanks. Exactly what I was looking for!
Thanks for the comment glad to help.
Amen
I'm interested in learning about chimney inserts for coal stoves, and how they are installed
Thanks for video, I should have watched before I was told that my pipes were backwards so I started to reverse the direction but that advice was not correct. You have it right.
If you need help let me know thanks for watching Bernie.
Great video much appreciated the explanation of why it goes this way, it's not intuitive as you would look at it and think it should go the other way, really good job thank you.
Thank you for watching I am glad to help Robin.
This is exactly what I was looking for thank you so much for posting it!
Glad it was helpful!
Good advise, thank you
Thanks for the comment glad to help.
Thanks very much it really appreciate your tutorial this is going to help me out a lot on the installation of my wood stove pipes in my garage
You are very welcome
Thanks from South Africa Kevin, explained my issue - damn builders installed ours the wrong way and now its mostly concreted in dammit! Great video!
Thanks for the comment and watching hope things work out for you Shaun.
I installed my woodstove today and I have my stacks exactly like you recommend but all my Smoke detectors started screaming! I even did your match test so I don't know why the detectors are going off. But in fairness they go off when my wife is cooking ( No....stuff isn't burning!). Seems like they are way to sensitive. I opened a couple windows and that helped.
Some good smoke detectors.
*********Best video I have seen all year*********
Thank you Paul
Thanks good information
Thank you Dave.
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Thanks for watching
Your video is very nice, I like the way you talk very calm and clear thanks
Thank you for watching I hope it helped.
Very good teacher.
Thank you James i appreciate that.
Sure glad I watched your video! I was doing it backwards. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Thank you. Was scratching my head over this.
Thanks for the comment and watching.
Good explanation.
Thank you so much.
Thanks mate I was concerned about the little gaps when joint my flu and was wondering if I needed to seal them with a sealer but this answered my question. 👍🏻
Glad I could help
I would seal it thru and thru my uncle is a master plumber and hvac your reasoning is fine but a sealed correctly drafted stove should have no gaps idk if it dose suck a match in if a obstruction would semi seal your pipe and mess the draft up it will fill your house with smoke I've been on them.kind of botched jobs....just my opinion
I wondered that for 40 years dude,thanks
Thank you for watching.
This video saved us from setting it up backwards. Thanks for explaining ! God bless you and your suspenders.
Thank you for watching glad to help Mariah Eller .
Very helpful tips. Thanks!
Glad to help thanks for the comment.
Thanks for your video, great explanation.
Glad to help thanks for watching.
Good video very informative and will help so many people im sure.
Thank you
never seen it explained that way. We use wood to heat or home when I was a kid. Our pipe was ran the other way an was always told to not run it the other way. But I guess lol. thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching Rodman.
thank you from the UK
great job.
Thanks for the visit.
Thank you, this is great info I was not aware and would have installed the pipes wrong
Thank you Daniel glad I could help.
Good explanation. Its counter intuitive to install this way and if you had just said to do it that way because you know best I would have ignored you. It's hard to ignore logic and proof though. Thanks for providing both.
Thank you for the comment Flyingsod Wai I don't know everything but I know not to mess with your life my friend.
Explained very well. You da man!
Thank you for watching.
Awesome video! Great job of explaining how vacuum is created and how the draft works!
Thanks for the comment David glad to help Merry Christmas my friend.
Youuns did a good job on this video.
Thanks Elmer.
Love the Pennsylvania accent! Home boy!
Thank you Pamtnman.
@@Robinson-Homestead Thanks for doing the helpful video
This helped so much and thanks for the links!!!
Thank you for watching glad to help.
Thanks mate
Thanks you for the comment.
Exactly what I was curious about ... “will the smoke ever come out through those joints?”
Thanks I thought my chimney had been installed upside down by previous owner :)