stihlfanboy
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Went to start a fire in the burner and dozed off after work. Woke up to the burner at about 700 and the pipe at 900. After shutting down and about an hour later I ended up calling the fire department when flames were about 2 foot out of my 30 foot brick chimny in the center of the house. Well they dropped Chem bombs down and ran there poker and chain down. It's plugged pretty good. Fire was about 8 foot down in the attic. They left now. We think it's out. Top 4 foot of chimney cracked. Gunna rebuild from the 2nd floor calling up. Me and my father inlaw being brick layers this is no problem, have everything on hand. The issue is the chimny only has one 8x12 flue liner, and the oil furnace and wood stove both feed into it. This and my poor cleaning I'll admit are the reasons for the fire. So the question is what's everyone's opinion on running a 6 inch pipe up the flue for the furnace? That would leave a 6x8 cavity for the stove to vent and should cut down on the creosote. Just thinking about it well ill have the chimny opened up. Hour 2 on space heaters and it sucks.