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Re: Woodstove Chimney prices...ouch
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Posted by T_Bone on September 09, 2004 at 07:08:10 from (4.240.39.26):
In Reply to: Re: Woodstove Chimney prices...ouch posted by 1 dave on September 09, 2004 at 05:20:36:
Hi Dave, "common sense " and there lies the problem! You can't just have anyone at any time do some tasks without being a danger to themselfs muchless being a danger to there family. Another consideration is when you insure a structure the insuree wants that install to be too code or when all fails the insuree doesn't want to pay. If you are your own insurrance company then this does not matter. Example: When I was a apprentice, I built a sheep herders stove for camp. I also made all my own pipe and roof thimble. I had a break down on one of the vechiles and my garage was unheated so I got the bright idea to install the wood stove in the garage as it was cold and the snow was flying. I cut a hole in my flat roof and made a roof jack for a 12" hole as the single wall stove pipe was 4" diameter so 4" air clearance all around should be enough. I set the roof jack in roofing mastic and shot a few screws to hold it down then installed the 4" stack thru on a china cap (rain cap) and stoked the fire box and lit'er up. Geezs it looked good with the fire in something I had made with my own hands warming my cold garage so I headed into the house for a cup of coffee with the wife, well maybe brag a tad bit too. I got to playing with the kids and forgot about my wood stove for about 45mins. I walk into the attached garage and observed roofing mastic running down the stove pipe dripping tar on top of my new wood stove. OOOP's I was very lucky that the roofing mastic didn't catch fire but it was close as you could hardly breath the air for all the tar smoke. Lessons learned that day: Why we need roof thimbles Why we need double/triple wall pipe Why I needed to ask a few quesions before starting my next project. Thoughts 35yrs latter; Why we need building codes was answered 35yrs before. This was 35yrs ago when there wasn't no stink'n internet :) But I worked for a 250 man sheetmetal shop that had the experts to asnswer the questions I should have asked before starting my project. T_Bone
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