Insurance Claims
Have you experienced a chimney fire, a lightning strike, wind damage, or an earthquake recently? Watch this video for instructions on how to identify this kind of damage and file a sudden occurance insurance claim.
HeatShield Application
HeatShield chimney liner repair is a product which coats the interior of your flue system, protecting it from damage. Watch this video to see how Heat Shield is applied.
Chimney Liner Insulation Specifications
Relining your chimney gives you quite a few options for cutting corners. When relining your chimney, one corner I have seen be cut is no insulation being put around the new chimney liner. This is a huge mistake, and most chimney professionals would agree. In order for most reline jobs to meet UL Listing Standards, [...]
Chimney Liner vs Chimney Pipe
When it comes to the inside of your chimney, things can get a little confusing. Terms that seem to mean the same thing or that look very similar have caused people to ask me many questions over my years in the chimney business. The term “chimney liner” is extremely vague. Loosely defined, a chimney liner [...]
Benefits of Installing a Stainless Steel Chimney
Fires in your fireplace can reach extremely high temperatures. A stainless steel chimney liner protects adjacent woodwork and other combustibles from the transfer of this extreme heat. After time, the caustic byproducts of combustion eat away at the mortar joints of a flue system lined with terracotta flue tiles. This makes for an extremely dangerous [...]
Insulated Stainless Steel Chimney Liners and Creosote
Burning wood causes combustion, and a byproduct of combustion is H20, or water. When you burn wood, the moisture in the wood is changed to a gaseous state (vapor) and mixes with the creosote that is formed from burning wood. This mixture rises up the chimney , cools, and solidifies. To prevent creosote buildup in [...]
Installing a Flexible Stainless Steel Chimney Liner
Why should you even bother to install a liner? They aren’t cheap, but their benefits definitely outweigh their cost. The liner will protect your flue system, damaged or not, from the transfer of heat in your system to nearby combustibles. Liners also keep your masonry safe from byproducts of combustion that can be extremely corrosive [...]
Why Your Chimney Flue May Need a New Liner
A flue liner is required by codes and standards to cover the inner surface of the flue of your chimney. Relining a chimney is a procedure during which damaged or deteriorated liners are removed and and better, safer systems are replaced. There is a great variety of materials comprising these liners including, but not limited [...]