Flue Thru Roof

Additionally they allow offsets to route the system around framing or other obstacles.

Flue thru roof. First you ll partially block your roof vent with the piping reducing the flow of cooling air through your attic. Reply to vertical flue through a polycarb roof. Position the vent pipe up to the bottom of the roof. Flashings for a sedum roof.

Plumbing questions answers tips and tricks. That s because the combustion byproducts are in a gaseous form so the gases can float up through the flue pipe and out of your roof. This wall prevents deterioration from constant contact with corrosive flue gases. Both systems use a stainless steel inner flue wall.

The water will condense and drip into the insulation below and perhaps into the house. With the pipe in a vertical position trace around the pipe using a pencil. The proper term for this connector is a flue vent connector but plenty of normal people use the word flue or the phrase stack pipe loosely for any sort of chimney or chimney connector. Second during cold winters you ll be blowing warm moist air onto a cold surface the roof vent and roof plywood.

Putting a flue pipe or chimney through a sedum roof sedum roofs are becoming ever more popular and many customers have come to us wanting to put a twin wall insulated flue pipe through their sedum roof so that they can install a stove. A single wall metal flue vent is not safe if it passes through combustible floors walls ceilings roofs. This is relatively easily done. Go into your attic.

If your furnace has an afue rating below 90 percent it will most likely have a flue pipe that goes up through your roof.