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Wood cook stove with longer stove pipe?

 
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Hello permies
I would like to ask if it would be worth the extra heat exchange or not worth the risk? To run a stove pipe from my wood cook stove up close to the ceiling, then place a elbow that would run about 10'- 20'  into the living room then out the wall or up throught the roof. of couse it would far enough from the ceiling and have a CO detector. thank you for your thought
Seen the wofati had something like this idea but ftom a rmh
 
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I think it would be too risky for a wood stove. RMHs burn all combustible gases so have no creosote to deposit on a cool chimney pipe; wood stoves depend on the chimney staying hot enough that creosote will not condense on the wall and build up dangerous deposits. A 10'+ horizontal run of bare stovepipe will be a chimney fire waiting to happen.
 
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Cookstoves are tough to get a draft from due to the rerouting of the smoke around the oven chamber. I really can't imagine how the stove would react to what you propose. It may work fine once a draft has been established, but up until then I'd expect some unpleasantness. What stove do you have? Some of them are machined to very close tolerances and are nearly "airtight", so that might make a difference.
 
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Hi Mike;
Not worth the risk.
Even without catching fire the creosote will collect in the horizontal run and drip stinky ,yuckyness all over your house .

With a RMH we run horizontal pipe but it is covered with a mass.
An uncovered pipe with a RMH will let all of its heat escape thru the metal and it will quit venting thru the roof an instead it will vent backwards thru the stove.

Consider building your very own RMH rather than trying to make a box stove pretend to be one.
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