Flue liner

[GM doc]

Any thoughts on repairing a cracked flue liner? Below grade but is cracked? Will morter fix this? I can get my arm into the spot that is cracked.


Thanks again lake friends

[Belmont Resident]

If you use it for burning wood I would seek help before repairing it yourself.
The liner is meant to stand up to a chimney fire. I'm not sure that a liner can be repaired and be safe. I’d have a professional inspect the liner before you do anything.
They do make a stainless liner that drops right down your existing chimney replacing the old one. Pricey but it also is very easy to do your own chimney sweep.

[robmac]

I would first ask the material of current liner,if not metal then a stainless liner would probably be the best choice. I would for insurance reasons if for none other bring in an expert for a look and advice. Can't be to careful and I wouldn't want to find out in the middle of the night woken from a sound sleep there is a problem.

[Champ81]

Call the Chimney Restoration Group they do that sort of thing. My husband had them come out to take a look at ours. We ended up tearing our chimney down and putting a new one up.....

[ACutAbove]

[QUOTE=Champ81;145430]Call the Chimney Restoration Group they do that sort of thing. My husband had them come out to take a look at ours. We ended up tearing our chimney down and putting a new one up.....[/QUOTE

It ended up being cheaper to tear down the old block chimney and put up a stainless steal double wall pipe, doing all the work himself including makeing a larger hole in the vaneer inside the house to put in the new pipe thru the wall. In total saved a very big chunk of change...

[SteveA]

Tim is a great guy. He did work on our chimney, and was kind enough to travel all the way to Mass to work on my son's chimney. Very professional.

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