We recently bought a tri-level house built in 1973.
In the sunken family room there is a huge red brick wood fireplace that had a woodstove ducked into the chimney by way of the face.
After we removed the woodstove we built a fire.
All of the smoke rolled right out and filled the whole house. After putting the fire out I noticed that the hole to the flue was only as big as a single red brick. The bricks on the top inside appear to be 4in fire bricks…and no damper. I do not know for sure if this is typical as this is the first brick fireplace I have owned all the rest were inserts. How can I remedy this so I can enjoy this lovely fireplace in the winter without dying from Carbon Monoxide poisoning? Also the lathe on both sides of the inside are exposed inside. I don’t remember ever seeing them on any of my previous fireplaces.
Please no mean or nasty comments, the previous owners were using the woodstove as a secondary heat source a week before we moved in and had stated they just got the chimney cleaned a month prior.

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the wood burning model looks identical to the gas model that I have except for the handle. It has the airtight rope around the door and everything. I couple of air vents in the back and removal of wires and gas lines is all that I can see that would need to be removed.
Here’s the wood model http://www.fireplacesunlimited.com/woodstove-t150c.html

And the gas model http://www.hearthofthehome.com/lines/earthstove/tg440.htm
The chimney was originally made and used for a vermont casting wood stove

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It seems that I have some type of a bird that is stuck in my wood fireplace. It is not in the duct, I looked with a flash light and I can see all the way till the other side of the chimney. It is all clean until there. From the sound it seems that the bird is between the duct and the the wall. I can hear it very close, scratching and pecking inside.

Any ideas how to get it out ? Or who to call ? Animal control ? Fireplace specialist ? Repairman ?
The bird does not seem to be in the pipe…I looked, its somewhere in between

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I am having gas logs installed in an existing fireplace and would appreciate any suggestions on how to block the chimney…its wide open now.

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We moved into a house with a fireplace for the first time. It is a wood burning fireplace, with the glass doors and a fan built in for whatever reason. I do not know enough…AND i cannot seem to get a straight answer on whether I’m supposed to leave the doors open or closed while burning. We are going to use it as a heat source.PLUS…what is the fan for, is it used to blow heat out? Does it have something to do with shutting the doors?…
There is vents, so you run the fan to blow warm air out and shut the glass doors?
I don’t need a cleaning!…I have used this for a year or so, but I always kept the doors open…so they would break. I just think maybe I have been doing it wrong, that’s all…
I guess I should have pointed out this is a fireplace in a modular home(yes,manufactured home,doublewide)…it is only 9-10 years old. The fireplace was built in from the factory, and I have no books. It has a insert with basically the fake stone everywhere around. We used it last winter, but i left the doors open and didnt run the fan….but i think all of my warm air went up the chimney
after everybody telling me "shut"… I get the following…..Thank you for contacting WholeSaleNow.com.

The doors have to be open…..the doors will be closed only on high energy efficient wood burning units….

Thank you for your time.

Kasey Hall
Sales Professional
mail, who is right then?

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I have installed a wood burning stove. It is tightly sealed and can go for days without smoking but suddenly if it is windy it can smoke. My chimney is raised above my roof and I have a standard cowl fitted on the chimney. I feel like taking the stove out but it is very economical .

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3 feet double wall stovepipe, 3 ft. chimney. priced a wood burning stove but found out pipe is much more than the price of the stove.

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I am building an outdoor fireplace and need to install a steel lentil for the top front of the fireplace opening so I can use cinder block on top to build the smoke chamber and chimney. How do I attach the angle iron to the cmu? Is mortaring it in with the blocks good enough?
They are 4" CMU and the interior will be lined with fire bricks.

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is it possible to run a natural gas vent up a chimney using something like b vent or 4 inch pipe? What i have is a wood stove using my chimney that measures somthing like 8"x12", or close to that. I want to run a 4 inch pipe up the chimney for my gas furnace to keep the flu separate. Is this ok and is it possible? Would it be better to run it somewhere else?
I still want to use the wood stove and the furnace

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I have two wood burning stoves that I use frequently. I have brought them up to our local codes which are very strict and I burn according to the local guidelines. Still I have a neighbor who complains all of the time and I am being warned by our city air quality inspectors that they could prohibit me from using my stoves. How can I help to quickly dissipate the stove at the chimney so the opacity will not exceed the strict 20% limit? Is there any weatherproof fan that could be mounted on the chimney that would help or would it help to add airholes to the stack thereby injecting fresh air to increase the dispersion of the smoke? I need a creative solution to this problem. Please help!

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