I could see this being beneficial with a wood stove, where all the heat is going up the chimney, but with a BB, isn't the stove pipe running cool?Sunny Boy wrote: If you look at a lot of pictures from the later half of the 1800's, you'll see that when they put stoves toward the middle of the space to be heated, very often they didn't go straight up with the pipe. They'd go up only enough to give head room and then run the pipe horizontal on a shallow up-angle through a wall to a chimney. That was done to keep as much heat indoors, as well as help distribute it across a room. And, some of the horizontal pipe runs got quite long in commercial buildings and churches.
Paul
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Thought for sure it had to be major plugged. It was only 1-1/2 inches deep at the deepest point near a bend. Here's a pic of what was in the bottom of the pipe after two long heating seasons with the range. That's about 6 tons of coal had been burned in the range in that two years. The bulk of the fly ash was in the bottom of the chimney, up to near the top of the cleanout door. The pipe comes into the chimney about 6 feet above that. 
