Cast Iron Flue Pipe Damper For Wood Burning Stoves Wood Burners Fires S4U® (5" Flue Damper)

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When installed by a Worcester Bosch Accredited Installer with a Greenstar System Filter. The Greenstar 1000 and Greenstar 2000 guarantee is available as standard to both Excelerate members and non-WAI's, when fitted with any brand of system filter. Terms and conditions apply. The flue itself is any metal tube through which ash, sparks, smoke, and gases are drawn up and away from the interior of your house. A throat damper is positioned at the bottom of the flue and about a foot above the firebox in an open fireplace, just out of sight from the outside of the fireplace. A top-mount damper will be at the top of the flue underneath the chimney cap. Do You Need a Fireplace Damper?

This is especially important if you have a throat damper instead of a top-mount damper. All kinds of flammable buildup or debris can make their way down a flue over time, even if you have a chimney cap, and this is the leading cause of chimney fires. Do All Fireplaces Have a Damper? Wood burning stoves already have a door on the front that can act as a seal against air movement, and their smaller flues are usually better and more easily defended from outside incursions but outside screens or caps. How to Tell if Your Damper Is Open or ClosedDo you have a problem with your damper or flue? A-1 Chimney Specialist of Winchester, TN, and Huntsville, AL, is ready to help. We provide licensed fireplace and chimney inspections, chimney sweeping and all types of chimney repairs to keep your home and family safe. Based on installing a new A-rated condensing boiler in England, Scotland and Wales with a programmer, room thermostat and thermostatic radiator controls (TRVs) in a gas heated detached home from an older G-rated boiler with a programmer and room thermostat. Figures are based on fuel prices as of October2023. Savings will vary depending on the size and thermal performance of your home. Source: Energy Saving Trust. These stoves are fully manual so setting the temperature of the flames is more hands-on than adjusting a dial. By opening the damper wider, you can make the fire in wood stoves burn faster. By keeping closing the damper partway to make the opening smaller, you’ll make it burn hotter and slower.

You’ll be able to use your damper to keep the heated or cooled air of your home inside the walls of your house and keep the aforementioned critters, weather events, and debris (and sometimes very short-sighted children) outside of them. The flue is very important to the proper functioning of a fireplace, furnace, or stove. Fire needs oxygen to burn, and the flue creates negative pressure that pulls air up and through the combustion point. This updraft keeps the burn steady and hot, with more active flames and less smoke generated. When you aren’t using your fireplace, the damper should be tightly closed to prevent an unwanted exchange of air between your home and the outside world. A closed damper also keeps bugs, squirrels, birds and other critters out of your house. Damper issues

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Because wood-burning stoves are often used to heat rooms or whole houses, keeping your fire burning slowly for a long time is ideal. This transfers more heat to the metal body of the stove, which means it releases more heat into the air around it.

If a flue is used with a fireplace, it releases these through a chimney opening. If used with a furnace or wood stove, it releases them through a vent on the roof or side of the building. Image source: Camosse Masonry Supply A chimney/fireplace system has a lot of parts, components and areas – and plenty of terminology to describe each. The chimney flue and fireplace damper sometimes are thought to be basically the same thing, since both have to do with drafting and venting a fireplace. Annual chimney sweeping is recommended for flues connected with wood-burning fireplaces. A CSIA-certified chimney sweep uses specialized tools to remove creosote and obstructions, thereby keeping your chimney safe and efficient.

Maintaining your flue

The flue is also sometimes called the chimney lining when used with an open fireplace. You may think that it is your chimney that pulls the smoke up and out of your house when you’re burning fire, but this is incorrect.