The wife got a little aggressive in cleaning the wood stove exhaust pipe where it leaves the wood stove. On close examination the exhaust pipe fitting was “customer made“ by the original homesteader and the wife bent it a bit when she removed it from the wood stove. I’ve tried fixing as best I can but there is up to a 1/8 inch gap in spots. In fitting this custom made exhaust pipe back onto the store bought exhaust pipe, there are a couple screw holes exposed now as I wasn’t able to get it to fit back on the way it was originally installed. I am sure it will be leaking smoke from these locations if not fixed.
Googling this issue shows caulking to be the typical repair method. Does anyone have tips on if there is a tape product made for this high temperature situation. I could certainly caulk it, but was wondering if there are viable alternatives or additional applications to caulking.
I will need to fire up the wood stove in the next week or so as low temps will likely be in the high 30s before the end of August.
Any advice from knowledge folks on this would be appreciated. Thanks
Googling this issue shows caulking to be the typical repair method. Does anyone have tips on if there is a tape product made for this high temperature situation. I could certainly caulk it, but was wondering if there are viable alternatives or additional applications to caulking.
I will need to fire up the wood stove in the next week or so as low temps will likely be in the high 30s before the end of August.
Any advice from knowledge folks on this would be appreciated. Thanks