It is strongly advised that you do insulate. When you install your liner with the proper insulation we carry, your reline job achieves the UL Listing of 1777 Standard, which your insurance company will love. Besides, an insulated chimney has a better draft and stays cleaner longer.

After you have properly pitch your tipi, you have a tent open at the top and all around the bottom. Since the cover is a few inches off the ground, as it should be, a considerable draft is possible making the tipi nothing more than a temporary shelter, not really fit for living in. Winds blow across the bottom of the tipi making the tipi drafty and cold and raindrops run down the poles and soak everything inside.

In most cases, you will need to install a chimney liner if your chimney has an over-sized or deteriorated terra cotta (clay) liner. You must always install a liner if you have an unlined masonry chimney. Both the National Fuel Gas Code (NFPA 54) and the national Installation of Oil-Burning Equipment code (NFPA 31) compel installations of the chimney liner in these circumstances. boilers have increased in efficiency, the temperature of the flues gases has declined.

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard 211 requires that chimney liners be replaced if they are cracked, broken, or missing. Cracked clay liner tiles and the deterioration of mortar joints between liner tiles can lead to the leakage of flue gasses into the interior of the house. Those flue gasses contain Carbon Monoxide, a deadly, odorless, colorless gas. Cracks in your chimney liner can also cause dangerous heat transfer to combustible material surrounding your chimney.

A wood burning appliance (wood stove or fireplace) needs a "class A" chimney of proper size. This basically means that the chimney must be structurally sound, with a tile liner, or its equivalent. The liner in the chimney is to contain the liquid creosote so that it does not seep into the masonry structure. In the event of a chimney fire, this liner helps to contain the fire, so it does not spread to the surrounding combustibles.

Fireplace chimneys were built to exhaust large volumes of hot gasses. Their size along with their construction does not allow for proper venting of wood burning inserts and most commonly create creosote glazing problems. For more information

Currently, most masonry chimneys are built with terra-cotta clay tiles stacked and mortared inside the brick structure. These tiles serve as a gas-tight and heat-resistant insulator against the masonry structure. Without a liner, or with cracked and damaged liners, there would be heat transfer or actual seepage through the brick and mortar. A liner is a stainless steel tube inserted into a chimney to draft an furnace, woodstove or fireplace.

The chimney flue should be the same size as the appliance flue collar. In the past, many chimneys were too large for the appliance they served. But bigger is not better when it comes to chimney size. Flue gas flows faster and has less time to lose heat in a smaller chimney flue. In planning wood-heating systems, some experienced installers even choose a chimney that has a smaller inside diameter than the appliance flue collar.

You can have it inspected by a chimney professional; or, if you're able, you can go up on the roof and check it out yourself. If you look down into your chimney and see only bricks and no clay tile, it is not lined. Some chimney professionals who inspect your chimney can actually lower a video camera into the flue and either show you their findings on a monitor as they are inspecting your flue, or make a video tape and play it back for you later.

If you are relining a fireplace chimney, you will most likely be able to pull the liner up the chimney with a "Nose Cone" and a rope, but it is usually much easier to let gravity help you and install the liner from above. When installing a liner in a standard chimney that has a thimble in the wall; you cannot install the liner from below because it would not make the 90 degree bend to go up the chimney.

The importance of basement insulation depends on whether the basement is heated. If you heat your basement, or if your furnace or other sources of heat are in the basement, you should insulate the basement walls to contain the heat. If not, you should insulate the basement ceiling to reduce heat loss to the basement and keep your floors warmer.

The most cost effective way to replace your chimney liner is to have a stainless steel relining pipe installed. Depending on the type of chimney you have your chimney sweep may recommend either a rigid or flexible pipe. There are many scenarios and options in relining a chimney depending on your situation.

There are many online chimney liner stores who will tell you that installing a chimney liner is easy. They tell you that anyone with common sense can do it. They are right. For some people its a good way to save money. For others it may not be a good idea. So you should do your research and see if its a job you can handle. It's never a bad idea to hire a professional, but it's not a bad idea to do things yourself.

That requires a thorough inspection. This is a case where a chimney professional would most likely use a video inspection system of some kind so he could systematically inspect every tile in your chimney's flue. Such an inspection will be able to show any cracks, even small ones, in your chimney tiles and/or any damage to the mortar between the clay chimney tiles. Once again, you could then view the results of that video inspection yourself.

Yes they do! But as a matter of fact, we encourage you to download the installation instructions from our website before you buy any reline product. Look on the page of the liner you are interested in and you will find a link to the instructions for that product.

Neoprene is an insulating material and will act as a buffer to a hot or cold surface. The nitrogen trapped in the closed cells of the rubber creates a temperature transfer barrier (much like thermo-pane windows).