Hey folks. Not a frequent poster, but a frequent reader. always plenty of good info on here. i'm hoping some folks can help me out with this one.
So as the title states, i just got my house reroofed. and it looks great. except they painted my chimney olive drab green. i have no idea why. i have a feeling they didn't know it was a chimney, since they also painted the vent pipes and such. don't ask me how someone could not realize it was chimney. granted, of course i had no fire going during the day. (was at work, and of course they need the area safe to work around.) apparently this happened yesterday and i got home after dark, fired up the stove without realizing that my chimney had been turned into an army green stack.
this morning i called the folks who installed my chimney and stove and explained what was up. that fella said that 1) WTH would someone paint stainless steel? 2) generally paint doesnt adhere to SS and the heat will make it start coming off at which point it will start to look like sh*t. 3) he didn't seem to think it was an immediate fire hazard. he recommended removing the paint asap but didn't really have any suggestions as how to do that.
so then i contacted the foreman today and explained the situation. i got a whole lot of 'yeah. uh huh. ok. we'll take care of that.' i'm not convinced it'll be 'taken care of' b/c this whole roofing deal has been nothing but a pain in the rear since we got started.
so has anyone had this happen before, or have any experience removing paint from a SS surface? plus now it's essentially been baked on. i don't yet know what kind of paint has been used but working on finding that out.
this whole day has been one big face palm.i'm trying not to be blazing mad. i really liked my shiny chimney just the way it was. thanks for in advance.
So as the title states, i just got my house reroofed. and it looks great. except they painted my chimney olive drab green. i have no idea why. i have a feeling they didn't know it was a chimney, since they also painted the vent pipes and such. don't ask me how someone could not realize it was chimney. granted, of course i had no fire going during the day. (was at work, and of course they need the area safe to work around.) apparently this happened yesterday and i got home after dark, fired up the stove without realizing that my chimney had been turned into an army green stack.
this morning i called the folks who installed my chimney and stove and explained what was up. that fella said that 1) WTH would someone paint stainless steel? 2) generally paint doesnt adhere to SS and the heat will make it start coming off at which point it will start to look like sh*t. 3) he didn't seem to think it was an immediate fire hazard. he recommended removing the paint asap but didn't really have any suggestions as how to do that.
so then i contacted the foreman today and explained the situation. i got a whole lot of 'yeah. uh huh. ok. we'll take care of that.' i'm not convinced it'll be 'taken care of' b/c this whole roofing deal has been nothing but a pain in the rear since we got started.
so has anyone had this happen before, or have any experience removing paint from a SS surface? plus now it's essentially been baked on. i don't yet know what kind of paint has been used but working on finding that out.
this whole day has been one big face palm.i'm trying not to be blazing mad. i really liked my shiny chimney just the way it was. thanks for in advance.