New stove install questions about capped crock

[Dilly Dave Dilly]

I bought a house recently and the wood stove hookup has been capped with a concrete like compound, may just mortar. I need to remove it so i can hook my wood stove up. The concrete cap substance isn't terribly think and was told it's just a cap to keep air out, but I've never seen this technique.

What's the best way to remove this material and hook-up my wood stove? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

 

[bholler]

I bought a house recently and the wood stove hookup has been capped with a concrete like compound, may just mortar. I need to remove it so i can hook my wood stove up. The concrete cap substance isn't terribly think and was told it's just a cap to keep air out, but I've never seen this technique.

What's the best way to remove this material and hook-up my wood stove? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

We will need allot more info and some pics to give you safe useful information.

 

[webby3650]

If it truly is just mortar, you could chip it out and then have the chimney inspected by a pro. I’ve got a sneaky suspicion that it was covered over before the home sale so an inspector wouldn’t call out the failed flue.