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 the other two relatively functional fireplaces have 2'x3' flues. they were built to have both up & downstairs fireplaces on each chimney, but the upstairs ones were closed off decades ago. i don't know if they even have dampers or anything. they do have nice mantels...
one fireplace downstairs was rebuilt in the 40s or 50s. i strongly suspect that side of the house had some kind of fire damage at some point. the other is a Rumford & still has a crane
@redenigma Older house eh? That's a lot of fireplaces!
@b4cks4w 208 years