Type of ceiling support? Please help

[falkie]

Hell all.
I bought a house recently that came without wood burning stove, but it has a single wall stainless steel liner in the chimney. Can anyone here tell by looking at the picture what type of ceiling support was installed? The pipe right now is dangling, but it definitely is attached to something as it does not fall.

 

[JeffT]

Should be a full length liner attached to the cap on your chimney.You or a sweep should inspect the chimney to verify.

 

[begreen]

Looks like raw pipe with insulation stuffed around it. Hopefully, that is class A pipe. It looks too close to wood on the right side, but it may be the camera angle. If this is not class A, it is scary. We should be able to tell more with the plastic bag and the insulation stuffing removed.

Can you access the other side of the pipe and take a picture? I agree that I would get a set of trained eyes on it. Call a good installer or a certified chimney sweep for inspection.

 

[falkie]

Looks like raw pipe with insulation stuffed around it. Hopefully, that is class A pipe. It looks too close to wood on the right side, but it may be the camera angle. If this is not class A, it is scary. We should be able to tell more with the plastic bag and the insulation stuffing removed.

Can you access the other side of the pipe and take a picture? I agree that I would get a set of trained eyes on it. Call a good installer or a certified chimney sweep for inspection.

Thanks for reply.

The pipe is surrounded by concrete and brick. I sweeped the chimney myself removing creosote, had a full bag of it. To me it looks clean now. There was a wood stove attached to the chimney that operated for at least 7 years. Here are four pictures I took.
What would you recommend use insulated class A pipe from the stove to this chimney liner or just a regular double wall DVL type? If you also could tell me where I can find the support box, it would be great.

 

[falkie]

Here is the view from outside.

 

[begreen]

OK, that helps. This looks like a stainless liner in a tile lined 8x10? flue pipe. What is confusing me it that you asked about a ceiling support. Perhaps that is the wrong question. What is the ceiling we are looking at? Where is this located, in the basement or in the masonry bump out showing on the porch?

From the pictures it now is looking more like a freestanding stove connection in a brick alcove. If so, it may be supported by an iron or steel lintel inside the masonry.

 

[offroadaudio]

Are we sure that's not black stove pipe stuffed into a chimney?

 

[falkie]

OK, that helps. This looks like a stainless liner in a tile lined 8x10? flue pipe. What is confusing me it that you asked about a ceiling support. Perhaps that is the wrong question. What is the ceiling we are looking at? Where is this located, in the basement or in the masonry bump out showing on the porch?

From the pictures it now is looking more like a freestanding stove connection in a brick alcove. If so, it may be supported by an iron or steel lintel inside the masonry.

BeGreen, yes it is located in the masonry bump. You may be right, it could be a lintel. I could have named it wrong as ceiling support, since I did not what to call that iron plate that covers the hole.

Thanks a lot for looking at it.

 

[falkie]

Are we sure that's not black stove pipe stuffed into a chimney?

Offroaduio,
Is it bad to have a black stove pipe? The pipe has a black exterior paint and shiny metal inside. A specialist who looked at it said it is a stainless steel pipe.

 

[falkie]

OK, that helps. This looks like a stainless liner in a tile lined 8x10? flue pipe. What is confusing me it that you asked about a ceiling support. Perhaps that is the wrong question. What is the ceiling we are looking at? Where is this located, in the basement or in the masonry bump out showing on the porch?

From the pictures it now is looking more like a freestanding stove connection in a brick alcove. If so, it may be supported by an iron or steel lintel inside the masonry.

BeGreen, if you look at the picture there are some round marks left surrounding the pipe. So, do I look for steel lintel? Or, otherwise, what name could have a metal plate have other than lintel? There are about 3 or 4 screw holes in the in the concrete near the edges of the square hole, so it looks like there was a round steel plate with square collar that fit into the square hole.

 

[offroadaudio]

Are we sure that's not black stove pipe stuffed into a chimney?

Offroaduio,
Is it bad to have a black stove pipe? The pipe has a black exterior paint and shiny metal inside. A specialist who looked at it said it is a stainless steel pipe.

Hmm - if it's regular black stove pipe - not SS, then it doesn't belong in a chimney. But if this is verified to be SS - it might be ok - the only way to know for sure if it's ok, is if the manufacture says it's ok to line a masonry chimney. Can you find any sort of identifying marks on the pipe? Maybe that end piece is just a connector to a SS flex liner, or is it all rigid like that?