Theres a house I drive by on my route that has what appears to be a metal driveway culvert pipe for a chimney with what I assume is cresote dripping down it.
Surprising that place hasn't burned down. The structure I spoke of was much the same. There hasn't been any activity there since I saw it and folks are hoping they don't come back.
Driving to town yesterday I noticed another home burned. A mobile home with an addition crafted on to it. The addition had a metal roof all caved in and burnt up. Fair amount of damage to mobile itself also. Looked as though centered around the flue area. Seems like around here it happens two ways. Very cold weather and folks run the appliance real hot or shoulder season weather and they wake up in the morning cold and start a super hot fire and it ignites that neglected chimney. The backyard of the place has a huge pile of green unsplit log butt cutoffs in it.
Never heard of ot growing up. It was always single wall into masonry and the stoves made gobs of heat. We had a box stove in the ice house. Had to have the door propped open at -20. That was run through a sheet metal plate in the wall with single wall. I had a barrel stove in a shop that was run through the wall the same way. That shop leaked air like a sieve and barely got warm, but I could warm up every 5-10 minutes. When I started seeing the newer stoves with insulated pipe, I thought it was a decoration thing because the pipe was so fat and you couldn’t feel much heat. I have been in many homes with newer stoves, and you wouldn’t know they had a fire going. I don’t have details about the stoves, but some of those homes were not too warm with a fire going. I am putting in a stove for an older neighbor. They asked me to run it through a window with single wall. I told them I am not touching it unless it meets code. Got the cold shoulder and no contact for 2 weeks. Then a call asking me to put it in how I wanted. I took measurements and gave a list of class A to buy. Waiting for them to tell me they have it. Most folks around here are older and now the younger generation is starting to take over. Older stoves being replaced by newer, and chinkeys being removed and replaced with metal. Lots of outside class A around here that is hanging by supports. Some folks have boilers that smoke. We have a big cook stove with single wall going to a (newer) outside masonry chimney. I hope to move the stove to the center of the house eventually, where there is a brick chimney that should accept a liner. The chimney will need a good inspection first because it was used as a chase for the OLD propane furnace vent pipe. Lots of bird nest material in the basement clean out.
Brokenstone , yep w3 have a nightmare property on Popcorn road that is a mix if storage container, camper, mobile h9me and derelict cars. We expect a fire there on day, likely from chemical experiments. Fortunately, I never see any kids around there.
