Pellet Stove install

[Albiemanmike]

Now I realize this is Garage Journal but I figured some of the members here have messed with pellet stove installation before. I bought a used Whitfield pellet stove to install in the front room of the new house. I am going to be doing that this weekend. My question is they make a 3" to 6" adapter for the stove pipe that I would like to use with the stove pipe I brought with us from the old house. This is SS triple wall stainless that isn't made anymore because I believe they used asbestos for the insulation. The stuff cost over $2000 when purchased and it is like brand new. I trust it more than that **** double wall stuff that is made now. This stuff never got hot to the touch even with a raging fire burning in the old stove. So can I use this 3" to 6" adapter to pipe my new pellet stove? I have done some reading up on pellet stoves and I am worried that the 6" pipe will be too much diameter for the pellet stove to draft properly? What say the members? If I can use the old 6" pipe it will save me a ton of money and simplify the install greatly as I have everything I need to pipe the new stove. I would think that if they make an adapter for this very purpose than I should be fine but I don't want to assume anything.

 

[Kev442]

Pellet stoves don't draft, they force the air out. You could use a stack of 50 gallon drums if you wanted. I had one venting into a large brick chimney 3 1/2 stories tall for 9 years.
The question is where will your fresh air feed will come from?

 

[Albiemanmike]

Pellet stoves don't draft, they force the air out. You could use a stack of 50 gallon drums if you wanted. I had one venting into a large brick chimney 3 1/2 stories tall for 9 years.
The question is where will your fresh air feed will come from?

That was my other question? Do you need to pipe an air feed to the pellet stove from outside or can it draw fresh air from the room it is installed in?

 

[Bib Overalls]

You want to bring outside air to the stove if you can. If you draw from the room you will be consuming air that you just paid to heat. This air will be replaced by cold air that infiltrates into the structure.

 

[Albiemanmike]

You want to bring outside air to the stove if you can. If you draw from the room you will be consuming air that you just paid to heat. This air will be replaced by cold air that infiltrates into the structure.

I am figuring that out with my continued Goggling. Now I have to figure out how to do that as the stove I bought doesn't seem to have a fresh air flange installed on it???

 

[benjam99]

The whitfield pellet stove I used to have had an air intake on the back of it. Mine was a freestanding model. The 3" pipe as you know is your exhaust, there should be another about 1.5" line for fresh air intake that feeds the fire. They make aluminum flex that would slip right on. Looks like a miniture dryer duct.

 

[Albiemanmike]

Thank you all for the advice I will have to make a parts run tomorrow for the stuff I don't have to plumb the fresh air line as well as the pipe.