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Thanks HayZee518 for your quick reply. When my house was built, 9 years ago, I asked the contractor to install a chimney for a wood stove that I did not have yet at the time. He installed a 7" metalbestos chimney, and every stove I looked at to buy was 6". The store where I bought it said that it would be OK as the maximum limit for creating a good draft is 1" over the stove flue size. I have had some trouble over the years with back draft and have found that if the fire is really going, I am OK, but it struggles to burn when I reduce the air intake to the stove for slowing down the burn, after all it is an "air tight" stove that should burn slowly, I thought. My fear with following your suggestion would be that with a 2" difference between the stove flue, and the chimney, they might have similar or worse draft difficulties. AM I right here? I am no expert in wood stoves or chimneys.
Thanks again.
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