Armor Flex Install

[Berner]

Does anyone have any experience installing an Armor Flex liner by Olympia?

I have an eighteen foot run coming that I need to install. At five pounds per foot the install is going to be a challenge.

Is this stuff at all flexible? The manufacturer says it struggles to make a 15 degree bend.

I was thinking of ratcheting a 32 foot extension ladder to the chimney. Putting a bracket on the top rung and hanging a pulley off of that. Piercing two holes through the top of the liner, threading some rope through the liner and then dropping it in slowly.

Anyone else have any better methods for controlling such a heavy, non-flexible liner?

 

[bholler]

I install 60 or 70 of them a year and yes they are flexible. 18' is not to long at all i would drop that by myself easily. But you will want a helper just atke it up on the roof and arch it up till you can get it started into the chimney once you get it started just keep that arch have your helper work the other end while you feed it is. Also make sure you put it in right side up. The top should be labeled don't do it upside down. They are just as flexible as light wall and they wont get damaged if you are a little rough with it.

 

[bholler]

Sorry not 60 to 70 armor flex liners that is total we only use armor flex for wood so with out checking i would say 40 or so armor flex liners