Hi,
I just cleaned my chimney for the first time and encountered a few problems. Wondering if anybody has tips or advice.
My woodstove was recently installed with a liner run up an existing rectangular clay chimney. When I climbed on the roof, I found it somewhat difficult to remove the chimney cap. It was connected directly to the liner with a few screws. Difficult to access those screws as the cap was also screwed and caulked to a flange.
Once removed, the cleaning went okay with a poly brush and some fiberglass poles. The real problem was getting it back together. Getting the cap to slide back inside the liner was exceptionally challenging. I had to pull up on the liner (it wanted to drop down into the old chimney) while at the same time trying to work the cap down into it. Very difficult and a few profanities were exclaimed.
I am not looking forward to repeating this activity so I am hoping there are some suggestions on how to make this job easier next year.
If I could find a cap which had a slight taper on the part that connects to the liner, it would probably be a lot simpler. Anybody know if these exist?
If I could replace the flange with one that would attach to the liner directly it could also make the job a lot simpler. Anybody know if these exist?
Maybe even just some other sort of union between the liner and cap?
Finally, if I cannot engineer a better installation for this, any tips for sliding a cap in a liner?
Thanks
I just cleaned my chimney for the first time and encountered a few problems. Wondering if anybody has tips or advice.
My woodstove was recently installed with a liner run up an existing rectangular clay chimney. When I climbed on the roof, I found it somewhat difficult to remove the chimney cap. It was connected directly to the liner with a few screws. Difficult to access those screws as the cap was also screwed and caulked to a flange.
Once removed, the cleaning went okay with a poly brush and some fiberglass poles. The real problem was getting it back together. Getting the cap to slide back inside the liner was exceptionally challenging. I had to pull up on the liner (it wanted to drop down into the old chimney) while at the same time trying to work the cap down into it. Very difficult and a few profanities were exclaimed.
I am not looking forward to repeating this activity so I am hoping there are some suggestions on how to make this job easier next year.
If I could find a cap which had a slight taper on the part that connects to the liner, it would probably be a lot simpler. Anybody know if these exist?
If I could replace the flange with one that would attach to the liner directly it could also make the job a lot simpler. Anybody know if these exist?
Maybe even just some other sort of union between the liner and cap?
Finally, if I cannot engineer a better installation for this, any tips for sliding a cap in a liner?
Thanks
