Flue tile - Red or yellow

[Nicholas]

I see the standard red clay flue tile most of the time,
But I also yellow-cream colored flue tile once in a while.

Is the yellow tile just another clay tile, or is it xomething special?

And do I have a problem that when driving around I "ogle" peoples chimnies ?? Instead of young women ?

Nick

 

[billb3]

It probably means you're gay. - Sorry.
Or married and tired of getting smacked.

I've only seen orange flue liners.

 

[tickbitty]

I bet you ogle women as well.
I personally have been ogling people's wood piles, and dead wood laying in the woods. Especially after we just overpaid for a 1/2 cord to help get us through the spring...

 

[berlin]

In general (this at least used to be somewhat true) the dark red flue tiles tend to be harder, more resistant to acids. the lighter off-whites and light yellows tend to be more resistant to cracking from quick changes in temperature, softer, and more likely to spall and flake from acids or weathering.

 

[grommal]

Ours is cream colored, as are all the ones I can see sticking out of the chimney tops of my neighbors. Maybe it's a regional thing? Or a regional combined with a certain time period of construction thing?