What is this in my smoke chamber?

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Firewoody

New Member
Feb 20, 2022
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Minnesota
My wife and I recently purchased a house with a fireplace. I noticed that in the smoke chamber there is a side that has some strange white protrusions in it.

I touched them with the fire poker and they are hard as brick. Is this some kind of parging that was done to fill in some gaps? Or what?

I do have someone coming out to do a level 2 inspection this week.

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