Build My Chimney Rotated 45° From Parallel

Is there any reason I can't build my chimney rotated 45° from parallel to my walls. When the chimney passes through the roof a corner would be facing towards the roof peak.
AHS 260 is going in the garage, where the 16"x16" chimney passes through the metal roof I would have about 11' horizontally to the peak. So I will have about 7-8 ' of chimney protruding through the roof and 12' from roof to floor. If the chimney is rotated, I wouldn't have to build a roof cricket. I wouldn't have to worry about clearances for the thimble either.

Am I crazy for wanting to build it this way?

If I am understanding it right, you just want a corner of the block towards the wall instead of the face?

Based on how we built mine with the chimney blocks. I don't see why it would be a problem.

We used brick wall ties here and there, but the mason I worked with didn't seem to put much importance on them. I was putting in 2 per row per block for a while, and he told me I could ease up on them

I mixed the mortar and passed the blocks, he ran the show.

Building a Chimney for a Kb8 Boiler

That's exactly what I'll taking about

You're just rotating the entire chimney 45* top to bottom...
Not inducing a twist in the chimney...
You will make the carpenter work a bit more...
You could still build the cricket as it would be more effective...
Masons can do some crazy stuff with helixes in chimneys and big arches too..

I had to look up the helix. Wow that's a art.

That's is one heck of a nice look'in chimney!

Shame it's to short and someone stuck an SS liner in one side.

-Don

There is a house a few miles from me with the chimney turned 45 degrees. Personally I think it looks strange.

I had a customer who built his chimney facing the house as normal. Only difference was; it was two, or three feet away. It was a free standing masonry chimney.