Look What Was in My Chimney

If ya don't know I have a well casing for a chimney...I also have a 4 ft extention of galvanized pipe to get it a little higher. Well thae past few weeks I have been having trouble with smoke backing up to a small degree and very poor draft, so I take my 3 lb hammer and "wack" the case a few times and it clears up.....well today I looked down from top after removing the piece of extension pipe, it was like a pc of paper...when I looked down I couldnt see any light at bottom so I dropped my log chain, and punched that tangled mess out the bottom, this is my pee poor set up, but now she is really cookin

oh... and thats that nasty dirty polluting bituminous smoke ya see in that there pic looks extremely harmful dosent it?

I think I wont have to clean out my connector pipe so often now, I was really gettin frustrated with it so today wasnt too cold so I took it all apart

that mess of metal was about 8 feet down inside, guess im just gunna leave extension off of it because I don't want that to happen again. just a warnin to all yins if ya have to deal with the crap I have too

Can't tell by the photo what the heck that is???

its the bottom ov a pc ov galvanized that rotted off and fell down inside my chimney, the galvanized was used to extend my chimney 4 foot higher because the well casing I use for a chimney is only about 2 feet above my eve, basically that was my top section that rotted that mangled mess to the left is what fell down and lodged in side the well casing about 8 foot below the top of the casing, so I dropped my chain ontop of it to dislodge it

yea... I bet the chimney works a lot better now that it's not obstructed by chunks of sheet metal ...

Although, if you want extra height, why not take a 4-6' piece of casing or sch 40 or whatever and attach it t the top of the existing casing using either clamps, welding, or heavy sheet straps.

oh heck yes, when I couldnt see down the chimney I couldnt figure out what the heck was in there lol, it didnt take much with a 35 ft log chain falling on it lol

Berlin wrote:yea... I bet the chimney works a lot better now that it's not obstructed by chunks of sheet metal ...

Although, if you want extra height, why not take a 4-6' piece of casing or sch 40 or whatever and attach it t the top of the existing casing using either clamps, welding, or heavy sheet straps.

I do have a 2 ft pc of casing just debating how to make a flange I have a welder but leads are not long enough to reach that high. I was thinkin a slip or somthing to the nature, but I don't want the damn thing comin down n conkin me on the noodle when I wack the chimney with a hammer, the way I clean it is give it a couple wacks, u hear the soot/cresote fall, then I open my cover at bottom and hoe it out, alot easier than gettin up on the roof on a bad day, I guess its just the price you pay for being thrifty, might try a strap deal, but what would you suggest? I thought of maybe goin to a heavy truck parts store and seeing if I could possibly get a exhaust band clamp that would close down enough to hold it, but I don't know how much one of those would be and size, it is 6 3/8 round so I imagine that an 8" band should work???

Maybe you could weld 3 or 4 pieces of bar or round stock to the extra casing while on the ground to act as a sleeve so you could just slip it over the the existing pipe.

franco b wrote:Maybe you could weld 3 or 4 pieces of bar or round stock to the extra casing while on the ground to act as a sleeve so you could just slip it over the the existing pipe.

now I like that idea, I have some rebar, so basicaly what your sayin is make some "legs" to slip inside of the chimney that are welded to the extension pc? thanks I might try that

oh you said to it not inside it I see what you mean now, in otherwords "legs" on the outside of add on pc

lumpocoal wrote:oh you said to it not inside it I see what you mean now, in otherwords "legs" on the outside of add on pc

You got it.

some times I just need that "spark" from someone else's suggestion lol thanks this it what I will end up doing, I could use a large diameter hose clamp just to give the"legs" some tension around the chimney kinda make them hug it

4 two foot legnths of re bar welded one foot onto the extension so there is the other foot of em slippin over the existing chimney