Extend-A-Flue -Anybody have one?

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jadm

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Dec 31, 2007
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Looking at chimney pots as a means to get more height on my chimney. Saw the Extend-A-Flues and am wondering if anyone here has one.

Two things I'd like to know are: In order to have a sweep clean my chimney does the entire unit have to be removed or does just the 'top' come off somehow? Hard to tell from the pictures I have seen.

Also, currently my only block off plate is at the top of my chimney. How would I install one of these units with the block off plate I have now which sits on top of my flue?

These Extend-A-Flues sure look a whole lot nicer than a long bare stainless pipe at the top of my chimney.....I'm sure my neighbors would agree to that to. :coolhmm:
 
Mike Wilson said:
I did hear that the guy who makes them is a left over hippie who burnt out in the late 70s... :-/

-- MW


I certainly don't remember making those, but from your description, perhaps I do. Rick
 
I installed one once they're very nice looking and pretty heavy duty. If memory serves the top came off with 3 or 4 screws.
 
Mike Wilson said:
I did hear that the guy who makes them is a left over hippie who burnt out in the late 70s... :-/

-- MW

So maybe he would be willing to do a trade for some old 'Jefferson Airplane' and 'Country Joe and The Fish' albums???? ;-P
 
Shane said:
I installed one once they're very nice looking and pretty heavy duty. If memory serves the top came off with 3 or 4 screws.

I like 'heavy duty and nice looking and that the top section could be removed'...... Do you by chance recall anything about a block off plate???
 
no worries. glad i helped.
if it weren't for him, none of us would be here, and i wouldnt know what i know.
 
ok guess i stepped into that.
i meant about stoves and burning... eh, you know what i meant.

you sell enough of those yet to bail out VC yet?.......... or finance a mercenary mission to get me a shelf, a flue collar for mandoo.....and who needed the refractory??
 
perplexed said:
Also, currently my only block off plate is at the top of my chimney.

From what I know, which is not much, having a block-off plate at the top of your chimney is anywhere from slightly to significantly worse than having it at the bottom. A bottom block off plate in conjunction with high temperature insulation is the best way to go. However, there may have been a good reason for your installer to put it at the top.
 
Mike Wilson said:
I don't have one, but they look really nice. I did hear that the guy who makes them is a left over hippie who burnt out in the late 70s... :-/

-- MW


Ahhh,haaa,haaa,ha.......Now that right there is funny, I don't care who you are. :lol:
 
Webmaster said:
I take exception to that!

My "time" was in the late 60's, and I was eating natural foods and living clean by 1972.

That is precisely why I did not burn out! Started and stopped young......by the late 70's I was selling wood stoves.
:coolsmile:

Thats funny cuz I WAS going to add a part about a granola crunch'in, twigs and berries kinda guy. :cheese:
 
Webmaster said:
I take exception to that!

My "time" was in the late 60's, and I was eating natural foods and living clean by 1972.

That is precisely why I did not burn out! Started and stopped young......by the late 70's I was selling wood stoves.
:coolsmile:

Well then, suffice it to say that cutting off the weed early and picking up the twigs and berries has resulted in you looking 10 years younger! Kudos to nature!

-- MW
 
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