Flue Thru Roof

Go into your attic.

Flue thru roof.

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. They also allow the use of fire stops for passing the system through each combustible floor. Position the vent pipe up to the bottom of the roof. First you ll partially block your roof vent with the piping reducing the flow of cooling air through your attic.

This wall prevents deterioration from constant contact with corrosive flue gases. With the pipe in a vertical position trace around the pipe using a pencil. Additionally they allow offsets to route the system around framing or other obstacles. Reply to vertical flue through a polycarb roof.

Plumbing questions answers tips and tricks. This is relatively easily done. The penetration will be oval to have a round pipe exit vertically through a pitched roof you need an oval hole in the roof. 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.

Flashings for a sedum roof. Second during cold winters you ll be blowing warm moist air onto a cold surface the roof vent and roof plywood. The water will condense and drip into the insulation below and perhaps into the house. 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.

Plumbing questions answers tips and tricks.