I think I've finally convinced the wife that we NEED a good insert in our masonry fireplace. We love fires and have them often during the winter. I've always been frustrated that no matter how nice a fire I have burning it never heats up the house. After lurking around here for a while, I know now why I've been having trouble getting any heat....
ANYWAY, today we had the first guy come out to look around and give us an estimate. The first thing I hear after he looks up the chimney is "Wow......you've definitely had a chimney fire in the past...."
Yikes.
Sorta scared the you-know-what out of me.
He's telling me that it's so bad that a chemical needs to be applied to the chimney and a 6 hour fire needs to be burned to be able to clean it properly.
He's also pushing an Napoleon 1402 for the insert.
I'm supposed to get his estimate in the next day or two.
The whole process has me anxious for some reason. I love to burn and would love to be able to actually put some heat in my house (1,800 sq.ft. split) in the process, but I figure I'm looking at a $3-4k estimate for the insert.
I'm going to have at least one more person shoot me an estimate.
Please reassure me that this is the way to go.
Thanks,
Greg
ANYWAY, today we had the first guy come out to look around and give us an estimate. The first thing I hear after he looks up the chimney is "Wow......you've definitely had a chimney fire in the past...."
Yikes.
Sorta scared the you-know-what out of me.
He's telling me that it's so bad that a chemical needs to be applied to the chimney and a 6 hour fire needs to be burned to be able to clean it properly.
He's also pushing an Napoleon 1402 for the insert.
I'm supposed to get his estimate in the next day or two.
The whole process has me anxious for some reason. I love to burn and would love to be able to actually put some heat in my house (1,800 sq.ft. split) in the process, but I figure I'm looking at a $3-4k estimate for the insert.
I'm going to have at least one more person shoot me an estimate.
Please reassure me that this is the way to go.
Thanks,
Greg