Hello I have been reading and learning a lot for the last couple of weeks.
I have a vermont castings dutchwest (non-cat). I burn mostly hard woods: oak, maple, ash.
I do have a chimney question. I have a metal ,double wall, stainless chimney. After cleaning it out
I looked up through the bottom and noticed on 3 of the sections, where the joint lines meet, they
are puckered out. There is no noticeable smoke that comes out.
I had 2 chimney sweeps come and take a look. One said replace the whole thing
because there must have been a chimney fire. The other one said everything is fine.
The chimney was there when I bought the house so I don't know how old it is. They had a wood burner but I replaced it.
I have a vermont castings dutchwest (non-cat). I burn mostly hard woods: oak, maple, ash.
I do have a chimney question. I have a metal ,double wall, stainless chimney. After cleaning it out
I looked up through the bottom and noticed on 3 of the sections, where the joint lines meet, they
are puckered out. There is no noticeable smoke that comes out.
I had 2 chimney sweeps come and take a look. One said replace the whole thing
because there must have been a chimney fire. The other one said everything is fine.
The chimney was there when I bought the house so I don't know how old it is. They had a wood burner but I replaced it.
