I went past the local wood heater shop today and asked about flues and the cost etc etc as I bought a second hand Alpine Koziosko wood heater back in Jan to go in the rumpus/ cave under the house. Its getting bloody cold here now so I thought to start looking into what I need, how much I am up for and whether I will just leave it and freeze over winter. Lol. We have a gas ducted heater upstairs in the house, but its old, one of those Vulcan Compact 60 upright heaters and its old, did I mention that, and I need to manually switch the fan off at the wall otherwise it wont turn off. Anyhow, its kinda struggling to heat the house and if I get the wood fire heater up and going, under the house, I can use that to warm up under there and this will work really well to heat upstairs.
So at the shop I give him lengths etc etc and he came back to me with a quote of $1500 just in parts for the flue! Eh! Now he did mumble something about the flue pipe being triple skinned. Maybe this is why it was so expensive? I also need a wall penetration kit, the one they are selling looked the goods, made by Flomet, it comes out of the wall at 90degress and had a inspection cap built into and the base for ease of cleaning. I reckon I needed around 6 metres of flue to go outside.
So do I really need to get this triple skinned stuff? Or can I use single wall 6 inch stainless pipe? If I can, I'm sure I can find this stuff cheap second hand somewhere. Ive got the flue and guard for inside to go ontop of the heater, and the flue cap, but apart from the wall penetration kit, i need to run it up the wall outside about 6metre or so I reckon.
Cheers.
