Installing Wood Stove Pipe Through Concrete Wall

Last fasten each section of stovepipe with self tapping screws.

Installing wood stove pipe through concrete wall.

Installation of the stove pipe is the same as for vertical installation. Make a 3 inch thick wall made of bricks against any combustible wall to which you want to pass the stove pipe. Step 4 install the stove pipe. Step 3 make a wall.

Local code or your insurance may have an opinion but if it doesn t have any combustible material in the wall it should be doable for less than 450 to get through the wall. Builders use many techniques to run pipe through concrete block walls but the easiest and most efficient way is to use a core drill. Insert the horizontal section of pipe through the walls so the inner end is about three inches from the face of the inside wall. Start with the rigid sections and work from the stove to the wall.

For example if the pipe s diameter is 8 inches then the clearance should be 24 inches. Install the slip connector or telescoping section last. Take that number and multiply by 3 and use that to determine the stove pipe s clearance from the wall. Core drills are expensive tools and not something that the.

Apply construction adhesive on the inner face of the inside collar. Have 12 inches of space between the combustible and brick walls.