Well it would creosote up and plug the stack.
I wonder if the condensate would drip back down the pipe, revaporize and recondense with the process looping until the amount of water built up would flood the stove, put out the fire and cause a soggy mess in the living room. :-)
Or perhaps I...
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I removed the single wall pipe. I could find absolutely zero rust inside that pipe. None in the triple wall pipe thru the attic, none in the exposed stack above the roof and none in the stove except:
1) red droplet spalsh marks and
2) red color or stain on the baffle blocks...
The original pipe was double walled. I just now drug it out and looked at it and to my surprise the upper inner half is stainless steel. Perhaps this problem has been addressed before. Well between the double wall and the stainless the problem should evaporate. Thanx.
We replaced our airtight sheet metal no-longer-legal-but superior stove with a "modern" contrivance (stove) because age took its toll ie it burned out. With the new "modern" contrivance (stove) we then got a big rust streak down each side of the roof below the stack. Oxalic acid removed the...
Thankyou for the comeback. Very clear! Always wondered about this. Looks like my thinking was at least in the right direction. I never thot about the sprue, slag and startup etc.
Looking at vinyl windows the question came up of how much the % of recycled vinyl used affects the structure quality.
The question in my mind is just how is the recycled stuff incorporated into the product? Is it just a ground up filler? Or does it get re-polymerized? If the latter there...
