Hey y'all - greetings from The Piedmont region in North Carolina. First year in a new-to-me house and looking forward to adding my Jotul woodstove to the living area for a cozy winter season. I had a successful experience installing my first chimney liner using the Rockford kit at my previous house and hope to do the same here. The difference was the roof/ chimney situation. While it was also one story, the chimney was much lower and easily accessed without a ladder as well as being on much less of a pitch. The chimney/ roof situation at my new place is much more complicated as you can see:
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I've got a tall ladder that I can lay flat on the roof pitch to get me up there, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to get up to a good working height at the chimney to leverage the pipe safely into the chimney and then install the cap... I've never looked into renting a boom lift, but maybe this is the kind of job for it? The chimney top is approximately 8 feet above the roof peak. Anyways, hopefully someone on here might be inclined to offer some tips and it would be greatly appreciated. If a boom lift is the answer, I'll certainly shop some quotes from contractors as it might end up being a wash on project cost, but the quote I had for the install at my previous house which I ended up doing myself was about $4,000 and only cost me about $800 to do myself.
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I've got a tall ladder that I can lay flat on the roof pitch to get me up there, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to get up to a good working height at the chimney to leverage the pipe safely into the chimney and then install the cap... I've never looked into renting a boom lift, but maybe this is the kind of job for it? The chimney top is approximately 8 feet above the roof peak. Anyways, hopefully someone on here might be inclined to offer some tips and it would be greatly appreciated. If a boom lift is the answer, I'll certainly shop some quotes from contractors as it might end up being a wash on project cost, but the quote I had for the install at my previous house which I ended up doing myself was about $4,000 and only cost me about $800 to do myself.
