Flue for a multifuel stove

Kashkai

We bought a multifuel stove a few weeks ago for our family room off the kitchen as we've always fancied getting one of these for the heat they are supposed to give out. There's no existing chimney in the room but we planned to get it flued from the rear anyway. However, when we called a few flue fitters, they all said they wouldn't flue the stove horizontally from the rear of the stove, through the wall and then vertically up above the roofline of our bungalow as they all said there wouldn't be enough draft on the stove and we'd get blowback of smoke into the room. Now thats all well and good but why are these stoves manufactured so they can be flued from the rear and why did the shop we bought it in state that everyone gets the stoves flued from the rear when there is no existing chimney in place (note - we never expressed a preference for where the flue would go, i.e. horizontally from the rear or vertically from the top).

So we are left with an expensive piece of metal in the family room until we can get it flued. The wife doesn't want a vertical flue as we've been told that it would have to have a thick twin walled flue through the ceiling and the aestheitcs of this doesn't appeal to her.

Has anyone out there got one of these stoves and if so, did you flue it from the rear, does it take the smoke away or do you have blowback into the room. If anyone knows of a good flue fitter in the north Kildare and surrounding areas, please pm me with their number.

David

Evergreen

Hi David,

It's not just as simple as a draft problem, building regulations state that the maximum horizontal flue distance on a solid fuel stove is 125mm - not even enough to get the flue out through the wall.

If you get the flue fitter to put the flue out at 45° to the back of your stove and then straight up on the outside it should work fine

Ned

muffler

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