brick chimney

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    preparing old fireplace for small stove

    Hello everyone, happy new year. We are preparing our old fireplace to put a Vermont castings Aspen C3 in it and run the stovepipe up through what remains of the masonry chimney. The fireplace had been bricked up and today we opened it up and found many more bricks than we expected. Was a pain...
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    Brick removal advice for chimney liner install

    I’ve learned so much in this forum and have finally started my install. I’ll be putting a Morso 7110 in a somewhat narrow existing fireplace and lining the masonry and clay chimney with pre-insulated rigid oval Duraliner. My fireplace tapers to a narrow throat, so I need to remove a brick or...
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    temporarily wood stove install: am I putting myself at risk?

    Hello, I recently bought an uninsulated fixer-upper house and am living in it while working on it. I bought it off a family that had neglected it. I am getting building permits and going by the book, but it would be great to have more heat in here for the winter. The house has a brick chimney...