Chimney liner

[Chad Fabry]

The top terra cotta liner section in this masonry stack was about three inches above the section below. There's a brick for a spacer you can see in the photo.

Think the mason just ran out of liner sections?

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[John Dirks Jr]

Would that defect be what is causing the stains to collect at that point? From turbulance caused by the offset?

[Brad Manor]

I see it once in a while, I think that it's just easier to do it like that than to cut a piece of liner to the right size (no one's gonna look, right?). Most of the time I see it, the top section is sitting on nails, at least your guy used a brick.

-Brad

[Bill Kibbel]

Originally posted by Chad Fabry

Think the mason just ran out of liner sections?

No. It's done that way to avoid the horror of actually going to the truck to get the saw and cutting one piece.

It's wrong, but very common.

[Terence McCann]

A few questions then:

Has the flue gas eaten away any of the mortar/brick where the gap in the lining is?

What do you guys write when you find it? Do you recommend repair?

Does anyone have a picture of something Bill hasn't seen?

[Chad Fabry]

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Counting downward from the bottom of the bottom of the corbel, courses 5,6,7,8 are far more degraded than the rest of the chimney. There is a lot of efflorescence on the sides of the chimney.

[Inspectorjoe]

Originally posted by Terence McCann

Does anyone have a picture of something Bill hasn't seen?

While I can't speak for Bill, I think we can be reasonably certain that he's never seen one of these, close up and personal:

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[hausdok]

Ugh,

That's one butt-ugly house.

OT - OF!!!

M.

[Bill Kibbel]

Originally posted by Inspectorjoe

Originally posted by Terence McCann

Does anyone have a picture of something Bill hasn't seen?

While I can't speak for Bill, I think we can be reasonably certain that he's never seen one of these, close up and personal:

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I see them every day. Seems like farmers are growing them in almost every field and pasture around the area. That's why I moved to where I live now. My township has an extra income tax to help fight the spread of that rural carcinoma.

I'm in about 5-8 new homes each year, but usually not for regular HI work - only for big-bucks litigation support. I enjoy bitch-slappin' developers for consuming precious open space, then throwing-up crap for huge profits.

[msteger]

Originally posted by Chad Fabry

The top terra cotta liner section in this masonry stack was about three inches above the section below. There's a brick for a spacer you can see in the photo.

Think the mason just ran out of liner sections?

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Who knows.. but certainly call it out for Level 2 clean/service. Recommend a chimney sweep check out what else is going on down there.