Historic chimney liner

[StevieRnR]

Hey all! Long time lurker here,

Lots of info, always been able to find what I need, but after learning a ton about my house over the last few years.. I’m finally as a place where I can speak a little more intelligently about what I’m trying to achieve.

We have a house built around 1750, center chimney cape style, and we are looking at putting in a wood stove in one of the fireplaces.

The chimney is shared by 3 fireplaces. The South (Green Room), East (Parlor/cooking hearth with Beehive), and North (Oak Room).

Inside the chimney, it is divided with stone. The beehive gets 50% (facing east), and the the other 2 are further divided, 25% and 25%.

The catch, is that sometime in the past, someone mortared in the flue m(which runs parallel to the chimney through floors) for the boiler into the chimney in the attic. This is plumbed in on the N/S side, ABOVE the 25/25 division, but BELOW, the 50% split for the beehive oven.

Therefore, the chimney shot is straight up, unobstructed for the East Facing hearth/beehive, without any interference from the boiler flue.

We would like to put a wood stove in the East fireplace, with a liner, but also ideally retain the usage of the beehive oven., Which is its seperate mini flue that runs into the East Flue.

Most companies won’t advise or help.. they say abandon the boiler and run liners, capped and insulated. The historical mason that repointed the cooking hearth, said the sweeps are idiots and the fireplace works great and to use it… don’t destroy it by caping and blocking it like we did in the other chimney when the sweep installed the liner for the other wood stove. Side note.. we’ve successfully cooked pizza in it abd it was awesome!! 😃

we had one guy who installed our Blaze King with class A on the other side of the house come in, and say just run an insulated liner and let it sit there. No cap, as we have a slate cap up there… and it won’t interfere with the boiler as there in separate flues.. just clean it yourself cause no one will touch it..

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Has anyone ever encounter anything like this? Any insight or input?

Attached are some drawing.

Dark Blue - East / Parlor / Beehive flue
Light Blue - N/S flue
Red - Boiler Flue

 

[stoveliker]

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[bholler]

Hey all! Long time lurker here,

Lots of info, always been able to find what I need, but after learning a ton about my house over the last few years.. I’m finally as a place where I can speak a little more intelligently about what I’m trying to achieve.

We have a house built around 1750, center chimney cape style, and we are looking at putting in a wood stove in one of the fireplaces.

The chimney is shared by 3 fireplaces. The South (Green Room), East (Parlor/cooking hearth with Beehive), and North (Oak Room).

Inside the chimney, it is divided with stone. The beehive gets 50% (facing east), and the the other 2 are further divided, 25% and 25%.

The catch, is that sometime in the past, someone mortared in the flue m(which runs parallel to the chimney through floors) for the boiler into the chimney in the attic. This is plumbed in on the N/S side, ABOVE the 25/25 division, but BELOW, the 50% split for the beehive oven.

Therefore, the chimney shot is straight up, unobstructed for the East Facing hearth/beehive, without any interference from the boiler flue.

We would like to put a wood stove in the East fireplace, with a liner, but also ideally retain the usage of the beehive oven., Which is its seperate mini flue that runs into the East Flue.

Most companies won’t advise or help.. they say abandon the boiler and run liners, capped and insulated. The historical mason that repointed the cooking hearth, said the sweeps are idiots and the fireplace works great and to use it… don’t destroy it by caping and blocking it like we did in the other chimney when the sweep installed the liner for the other wood stove. Side note.. we’ve successfully cooked pizza in it abd it was awesome!! 😃

we had one guy who installed our Blaze King with class A on the other side of the house come in, and say just run an insulated liner and let it sit there. No cap, as we have a slate cap up there… and it won’t interfere with the boiler as there in separate flues.. just clean it yourself cause no one will touch it..

—-

Has anyone ever encounter anything like this? Any insight or input?

Attached are some drawing.

Dark Blue - East / Parlor / Beehive flue
Light Blue - N/S flue
Red - Boiler Flue

Without being on site there is no way to give you any real advice other than never trust a historic mason when it comes to chimney safety. Every one i have talked to seems to think old worn out chimneys will work just fine.