Chimney Construction in Progress

One thing I've noticed.
Now that the chimney is completed, I noticed that it blows air
to inside of my basement instead of out. Is that normal?
Should I see the air being sucked out of the basement, or I did something
wrong. We are in process of removing my propane boiler and putting
the VF3000 in place.

Dan

dkononczuk wrote:Now that the chimney is completed, I noticed that it blows air
to inside of my basement instead of out.

That will change when you start burning your VF3000 & venting into the chimney.

Your chimney is an external one and is cold, so air is dropping in it. I have the same thing with mine. you will need to reverse that before lighting your boiler. Once your boiler is going I think you'll be ok. My reverse draft is not reall strong so I can reverse mine just by lighting my charcoal and turning on the blower. If you have a cleanout door in your chimney, you could burn some newspaper there just before you light the boiler or as you light the boiler to reverse the draft.

Great job
I havn't done any seriour block work
just put bricks in a window opening
BDD

Here is a completed chimney.
No more stone work for a while.
Thanks for all the comments.

Dan

dkononczuk wrote:Here is a completed chimney.
No more stone work for a while.
Thanks for all the comments.
Dan

Dan, She's a beauty! A real Looker!

Very nice Dan!!

dkononczuk wrote:One thing I've noticed.
Now that the chimney is completed, I noticed that it blows air
to inside of my basement instead of out. Is that normal?
Should I see the air being sucked out of the basement, or I did something
wrong. We are in process of removing my propane boiler and putting
the VF3000 in place.

Dan

Did you have any problems with backdraft during winter?

No backdraft at all.
The baro stayed fully open most of the time and the draft was still at about .4
I guess like others suggested once the chimney got hotter it never pulled cold air in.

Now that it's getting warmer, the baro keeps almost closed all the time and
I still get the reading of about .4

Chimney is very tall, I guess that helps a lot.

Dan

That's good news!

Congrats, thats a work of art. You should go into business for yourself.

Jeff

Great work! The first guy I ever worked for was named Jim Zwierzensky, helluva hard working Polish guy. His family made the best stuffed cabbage, I think he called it hulupkes.

ceccil wrote:Congrats, thats a work of art. You should go into business for yourself.

Jeff

No thank you.
I understand why pros charge so much just to built a "simple" chimney.
Hard, hard work.
I got quoted about 7K to have this chimney built by a pro.

Believe me, every penny would be worth it.

My bottom line is that it cost me around $1500 from start to finish, so I did save a lot.
I learned a lot too. Learned enough not to built another chimney that is above the first floor.
(I'm afraid of heights above first floor, so it was a challenge to go much higher than that)

Dan

Beautiful job! I like the looks of the double part at the bottom. Gives it a touch of class. Congrats on a job well done.