so, would you demo this useless pile of rocks, or put a woodstove thimble into the chimney above, put the stove in front of the pile of rocks & pretend it's not in the way?
@redenigma I would keep the rocks! Isn't there a stove in there already? 🧐
@b4cks4w no (there's a cheesy electric fake stove in there because nowhere else to put it). and it's built really badly with a right angle connection that catches fire often if you use the fireplace.
@redenigma Yikes!
Talking about that pipe and angles and draw - how far to the roof? If it's me, I'm piping all the way up so I don't need to think about chinking. Downside is the whole thing doesn't initially breathe as well as a fireplace so starting a fire needs some pre-warming of that cold air stack. I prefer that to chimney fires.
@b4cks4w @redenigma
I'e been using one of these successfully for 20 yrs now. Has a stovepipe up the chimney. You can clean or paint or tile over the rocks?
@damselfly59 @b4cks4w IF the chimney went straight up, i would have done that 22 years ago. if you look at the fireplace, you see that it just... ends
@redenigma @damselfly59
Ahhh I see now.
Yeah.
Hmmm.
Would keep it if I thought the masonry was special. Having to build a chimney after the fact... hassle. And an exposed (triple wall, $$$) pipe will look a bit goofy.
@redenigma
Have a Milwaukee hammer drill (almost) old as that house -- can't be stopped. Good way to go about it; swiss cheese the mortar a bit. Goes without saying don't breathe whatever that stuff is.
@b4cks4w i asked kiddo if he could take it apart, & he's sending me hammer drill suggestions...