So..... two years ago when I bought my house when I had my chimney inspected and they found a tile that was cracked in the flue. Instead of fixing the tile, I hired a company to remove all the tiles and replace them with an insulated ventinox liner. Everything seemed fine after the liner was installed. At the end of the first year (2009), I had the company come back to sweep the liner. During the second season of liner use (2010), every so often I would smell a little bit of smoke in the house. So before using the stove for the third year (this year), I had the company come that I bought the stove from (PE Summit) come inspect the stove. Everything with the stove was fine so they started to look at the chimney. Here is what they found. The company who installed the liner only knocked out the top 10 feet of the 22 feet of tiles. Because they did not knock out the rest of tiles, including the damaged tile that made me go with a liner in the first place, they only insulated the the top 10 feet. Naturally, the the company that installed the liner is non responsive and I will either end up on his doorstep or invite him to small claims court to try to recoup the money I spent to have "the chimney tiles removed and an insulated liner installed".
As I live in Maine, I am assuming that there is a code out there somewhere that says if you install a metal liner in a defective of damaged chimney, it needs to be insulated. Does anybody happen to know where that code may be found?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Chris
As I live in Maine, I am assuming that there is a code out there somewhere that says if you install a metal liner in a defective of damaged chimney, it needs to be insulated. Does anybody happen to know where that code may be found?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Chris