I live in a podunk town up here along the Canadian border in Maine and share this site with a guy from the same town. Talk about a small world.warminmn wrote: It is a small world for sure.
My metalbestos chimney is in it's fourth year of operation and the only corrosion I've found that concerned me is where the stove pipe enters the chimney thimble. Coal gases must be terribly corrosive because it had eaten away quite a bit of metal.
With products constantly being discontinued or updated...meaning new stuff doesn't fit the old stuff without major modifications...I was fortunate to modify/fabricate my own length of pipe to safely replace it. Something I definitely plan on keeping an eye on.
The shameful thing about it is, I'm a bricklayer by trade and should have put up a masonry chimney.
