I have a very good friend.

[ericjeeper]

She has not much money. Needs a new liner in her masonry flue. How tough of a job can it be to buy a kit, drop it down attach the tee and hook up the woodfurnace?
Is it a job that takes a special training course? Or can any fairly handy guy do it?
If you think I can do it.. where is the most reasonable place to buy the kit? Do any of the Homedepot/Menards/Lowes sell them?

 

[mga]

there's a thread here from a guy who has done it already...including adding any insulation. search for it and he seemed to make it appear to be an easy job.

 

[Blowncrewcab]

Depending on how tall the chimney is, I found it easier to pull the liner up through the chimney, pull it up far enough to slip the stove back in then lower the pipe back onto the stove. I could have never managed a 25' flex pipe, 25'+ up on a ladder.

 

[ericjeeper]

This should be easy.

The masonry flue is in the middle of the house.. only protrudes out of a 4/12 pitch roof about 3 feet. But I am not positive what is at the bottom. whether I need a tee? or come out the bottom. I would imagine a tee.

 

[laynes69]

I have heard the kits on ebay are very good. I don't think its that hard to do an install of a liner. Basically straighten it out, drop it down the chimney, make your connections, install the topplate and cap. Thats it. You can go on you tube and I think there are some videos showing installation on there. I wouldn't be worried about installing one. Good luck!

 

[ozarkjeep]

yep, got my kit from ebay.

it was cheaper than anywhere else I looked, there used to be a few different suppliers there too.

all kits I saw had caps, and tees, and pretty much every thing you need to install.

it wasnt HARD to install, you need another person to help ideally, I went down from the top.

roof access to my masonry chimny was easy enough.

that stuff is TOUGH to drill into thoough, that was my toughest part.

 

[Zodiac45]

Go with the flex flue kits Eric. Easier too manage IMO. They are Stainless so a bit pricey but at the moment price is lower than it's been. 30 foot run cost about $700 last time I saw one. Just looked at the E-bay and this site and they are deffo cheaper now. ($589 for 30 foot x6") http://chimneysweeponline.com/foreverflex.htm Here's a video install too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRauuzjI-H4&eurl=http://chimneysweeponline.com/holinst.htm

 

[Wet1]

On a roof like that, it should be a pretty easy job. I did my fathers, which sounds very similar, in about two hours. The only thing I'd recommend is checking to make sure you have a fairly straight shot and there are no hidden surprises, such as jogs that the liner won't be able to make it around. I had to take a sawzall to my fathers damper and ovalize the last couple of feet of liner at the bottom (it straightened right out once past the damper).

 

[ozarkjeep]

yes, I had to sawzall inside the old fireplace damper area too.

here is a kit that is VERy similar to the one I got a couple of years ago..

http://cgi.ebay.com/6-X-30-Stainles...14&_trkparms=72:1417|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318