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[junkyard racer]

Quick question about chimneys. When I purchased my home they/the inspector said it needed a chimney liner. No big deal...im starting to get around to doing just that...but my chimney is square/rectangle. Every liner I have found is round. Do you stuff the round liner into the square hole? My dampener at the top is square.

I have a fireplace, not a wood burning stove. It seems to me that in looking at shit online and in lowes/home depot...a brick chimney is a liner in itself.

[random-strike]

you don't need a liner in a fireplace.

like whats his face said they use em on wood stoves because they can get really hot... its like something you can use for installation so it doesn't start a fire

[junkyard racer]

I've never heard of anyone using a flue for a fireplace..  and google images "chimney liner" is showing me dudes putting liners (flexible flues really) down brick chimneys for a wood stove.



http://www.doityourself.com/stry/chimneyliners

Shows ceramic things in the brick

thats what I am finding also. Flues/liners are only needed for stoves. I have a fireplace. You open the dampner and it goes straight into the brick lined chimney.

[RHD DC2]

i thought you just clean em, we have used ours for like 10+ years and just burn one of those auto cleaning logs about 4 times a winter season.

[5thgenlx]

so the inspector told you that you needed something that you really don't. typical. i'd call em up and ask what liner do you use for a fireplace. cuz they are fuckn retarded

[t_cel_t]

go ask them how rock can set fire

[junkyard racer]

so the inspector told you that you needed something that you really don't. typical. i'd call em up and ask what liner do you use for a fireplace. cuz they are fuckn retarded

That's my thinking also. If I had a wood cased chimney I think it would be a different story. In that case I would line it.

I don't, its 100% brick from the top to the bottom and very clean except for some cobwebs. I dont think it has been used in many years.

So im glad I am thinking correctly. All I really need is a new cap. sweet.

[crttaz]

Call someone out to look at it.

I'm lucky to be alive today, found a flue issue last night from when roof was replaced over the summer.

[junkyard racer]

yeah, I dont quite know what you are talking about though. I will get on there tomorrow and try to take a picture of it for you.

[Conceptz-X]

Call someone out to look at it.

I'm lucky to be alive today, found a flue issue last night from when roof was replaced over the summer.

That could have been very bad....

[Joseph Davis]

Call someone out to look at it.

I'm lucky to be alive today, found a flue issue last night from when roof was replaced over the summer.

That could have been very bad....

What's a little brain damage among RHMTers?  Worst case scenario, widebuddy has someone who can relate to him as an equal.

[Conceptz-X]

Being its not black pipe, there shouldnt be and embers in the flue

but yea CO inhalation, whats it gunna hurt?

[crttaz]

Being its not black pipe, there shouldnt be and embers in the flue

but yea CO inhalation, whats it gunna hurt?

won't feel a thing.........ever again.

[t_cel_t]

i bet it would eventually get the suction going and pull it out

[crttaz]

Would still have low level CO poisoning, something most pass off as a cold or flu like.

My father (RIP) worked for local utility company in gas service division, so I had an idea WTF was going on.

He got a service award for dragging three black kids out of a house due to CO poisoning, the mother called the cops, later once calmed down, she thanked him.

[jeffsciv23]

CO poisoning turns your skin black?

[E-b0la]

CO poisoning turns your skin black?

ROFL!

[crttaz]

CO poisoning turns your skin black?

Yes it will, about 4 months after you are dead.

[jeffsciv23]

ahhh i see, must be why my CO detecter goes ape shit everytime i bump NWA....must be liek a pracationary measure