Clogged.
Category: Restore & Repair
This is what our clogged chimney flue looks like from the bottom end. I couldn't actually get my body contorted enough to see up the chimney but then I remembered...my camera could :)
Fifteen feet of broken chimney tiles, fireproof insulation and portland cement.
I am as baffled as you are. Truly.
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Comments
So is replacing the chimney in the realm of possibility? Is it the cost or the aesthetics or ...?
I can only sympathize. Why would anyone have done this?
Posted by: Eric | March 14, 2007 5:01 PM
It's hard to imagine someone doing that to the chimney. Our chimney doesn't have a liner, we'd like to put one in, but the cost is high I'm sure. My neighbours had their chimney rebuilt from the roof up, and it wasn't super expensive. The brick layer reused all the bricks.
Posted by: Derek | March 14, 2007 5:44 PM
YIKES! What a mess. Any idea on what you're going to do?
Posted by: Victoria | March 14, 2007 7:52 PM
Unfortunately, rebuilding the chimney would be a messy and VERY expensive option. I don't know how many bricks could be reused since the PO's did not use lime mortar for the tuckpointing. Someone slathered pure Portland cement all over the place and that stuff does not clean off of bricks as easily as lime mortar does. Plus, the chimney is not exclusively on the outside of the house. Part of it runs through a crawlspace in the bedroom which would be a mess to work around.
Were still considering our options at this point...
Posted by: jm | March 16, 2007 10:46 AM
Shame about the mess in your chimney. That's a great trick with the camera for looking in inaccesible spots, though. I'll have to remember that.
Posted by: psioni | March 18, 2007 11:00 AM