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Thank you!

Honestly that's not even a guarantee. We bought a old house with a wood stove installed in a hearth with a liner running up the chimney. Inspections revealed a few issues: 1) The chimney was only 2ft tall. State code, NFPA 211 standard and stove manufacturers all want the chimney to be at minimum 3ft where it comes out the roof 2) The liner was uninsulated and installed in a masonry chimney with wood framing right against it. I had multiple chimney companies tell me the 2 foot tall chimney was fine and that I didn't need a insulated liner. I basically had to force them extend the chimney and put in a preinsulated liner.

Just make sure you get your chimney/flu cleaned every few yrs. Every year if you burn heavy in a vary cold winter. That is something that can be done by a home owner if you get the right tools to do it. You do not want a chimney fire, as you no doubt are well aware of.

Those types of jobs are tough! In those cases we would use scaffolding or a boom lift to get us much higher than the chimney to drop it in straighter. If you are doing it yourself it would be hard to give advice through here. Have you tried going to www.CSIA.org to find a certified sweep nearby?

The liners do need support to hold them up as they are flexible. Depending on the type of liner it may collapse or be able to safely lean while the chimney is being repaired. Once the chimney is repaired you will need to install a top plate to properly support it.

@@Ceaserchimney THANK YOU SO MUCH!

You have to remove the damper frame, or at least enough of it to allow the liner to pass by while staying round. Usually just the back part of the frame is enough. And if you seal off the top of the flue around the liner with a top plate then there is no need to stop air flow at the damper.

If the tiles originally vented wood smoke then we always recommend removing all the tiles, just in case there is lingering creosote

If the collar size on the stove is 6" than you cannot downsize any further than 6"

Depending on how hot the stove is being burned they can get upwards of 500-1000 degrees, or up to 2100 degrees if there is a chimney fire

Outside of the chimney or outside of the liner?

@@Ceaserchimney both ty

Woodland Direct sells an pre-insulated liner kit in different sizes, its called EasyFlex 316Ti Pre-Insulated Chimney Liner Kit. They are $300-400 more expensive than an uninsulated liner but if you are going to insulate the liner yourself, just the insulation kit will cost you $250, so really you'll only pay an extra $100 or so for a pre-insulated one and save yourself the headache. The pre-insulated ones can't be coiled though, so they are shipped by Freight and delivered by a semi, meaning they will take longer. The uninsulated ones just come coiled in a big box. Either will work though, just make sure you measure your flu and that its at least 11/4 inches larger than the liner to accommodate for the insulation. So if you need a 6 inch liner, your flu needs to be at least 7.25 inches in diameter.

Correction to this, the pre-insulated ones are still coiled and ship the same as the uninsulated ones.

"You cannot downsize wood pipe or liners from the collar size. If the stove has an 8" collar than the pipe and liner must be 8". Downsizing it leads to chocked exhaust and more creosote and terrible draft. You could install an 8" preinsulated liner or change out the woodstove for one that calls for a 6" liner." - cesar chiminey in a comment below

Depending on the manufacturer it could be sold by the foot or in 5 foot increments.

According to most liner manufacturers all solid fuel liners need to be insulated, and pellet is a solid fuel. Do with that information as you wish 😁

If your 8inch is in good shape you can put a 6inch liner insider the 8inch pipe.

You cannot downsize wood pipe or liners from the collar size. If the stove has an 8" collar than the pipe and liner must be 8". Downsizing it leads to chocked exhaust and more creosote and terrible draft. You could install an 8" preinsulated liner or change out the woodstove for one that calls for a 6" liner.

@@Ceaserchimney that's what he said, what's to get a new stove with 6" flue, if he has an existing 8" stainless double layer pipe why can't he install a stainless insulated 6" liner? Just asking.

@@davidsimmons3844 my apologies, I read that wrong. In this case you can plumb the 6" stove into the 8" liner without needing to install a new liner. With the liner being insulated it should draft just fine.

@@Ceaserchimney ok thanks, because I did it! You had me nervous!🤣

We rarely have to pull the ones that have been installed with insulation.

See our other videos on tile removal. We never install liners inside flues that previously burned wood due to the lingering creosote and size. Once the tiles are removed we can install the appropriately sized round liner.