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Hello Dear friend.. Have a question please: Is there a proportion for width and length measurements of a brick chimney liner ? Thank you

Nice hat Beny Hills !

Good videos Ray. I have watched 3 vids and your breakdown on each topic is clearly explained with good supporting images. Thanks.

Nice vids! In my area, all roofers seem to bend the counter flashing out at the top and fill with Solar Seal. I rarely see any new counter or step flashing cut into the brick. A lost art I guess here in Detroit. Some east coast roofers told me on FB they always cut it in.

This is way way too much info for the situation.

My clean out door is actually in my basement right next to where I keep my collection of oily rags.

crucial information. background music was too loud for me.

Great video with everything I needed to know thanks

I've replaced a few Firefox before and I can promise you that it's gonna be well over $3.000

Thanks to bad I'm a steel stud framer because I'd work for a guy like you.

I looked this word up because in the song "Deportees" The Lyrics say "oranges are left in the Creosote dump" - the song was written in the 1940's - maybe that was a thing back then

Pretty neat! I think it would work well for some people calling to schedule or have basic questions. If the customer is straightforward, patient, and smart then this is a cheap way to have a solid assistant. My issues: Many of my customers are on the older end and would automatically hang up if they knew they were talking to an AI, no matter how perfect the AI is. Even I would likely hang up. There would need to be an option to just leave a voicemail or possibly talk to a person to not lose potential customers. Customers sometimes ramble. I've had people talk for 6 minutes straight about the issues they're having. I highly doubt this agent would be able to effectively respond to something like that. AI and chatGPT in particular has issues. It can be a yes man where it says what you want to hear. It would need to be able to disagree with the customer at times. chatGPT can cite things it knows as if they are well known facts, when they are completely made up. If someone was asking technical questions, then I would only trust the response if it was written by a human, and if you have to write out every single response then it's not really an AI, it's more of a Google assistant/Alexa. The cost of potentially $15 an hour for this definitely seems high when combined with the negatives I mentioned (set up fee is also a factor). $6-$10 would be much more reasonable in my opinion. Obviously you can do whatever you want with it.

You need to create a video of a converted masonry chimney, such as what is found in a home built around 1900, to one with a stainless steel liner going up from a wood stove to the top of the stack, perhaps 24 feet straight up. You also need to create a video regarding the different types of brick typically found in a house built around 1900. There are hard brick which is found above the roof, and soft brick found from under the roof to below the hearth. Soft brick isn't bad if you know how to use it. First think is to saturate the brick with water before using it, or it will draw water out of the nortar before it cures, making the mortar joints weak. Another video that you need to create is in regards to preventing falling off of a roof.

I’m starting my career as a chimney sweep on Monday and I wanted to say thank you for making these videos. I’m binge watching this series so that I can show up well-informed!

Burning a hot fire is so impossible for all these geniuses in America

Nobody ever explains, how a fire in the chimney and fireplace, cause the house to burn down. People just say, A chimney fire will burn your house down. 😱🔥

Dude…you really REALLY need a computer guy who understands that he should find clips of video, or at the least, pictures that display each part of your explanation. Having one picture of the finished flashing, then explaining each layer and part of the flashing based only on that finished picture is a piss poor way of breaking down the topic and having your great explanation shown in a visual manner that really breaks down each part of the flashing. The first video you made actually did a great job of breaking down each and every part and aspect in a 3d visual representation as well as the actual thing….your computer guy or girl is just simply getting extremely lazy based on this video and it is a sure fire way of having people NOT watch your videos…so if your trying to get views…fire whoever is doing your video/graphics..I would say editing but there was NOTHING TO EDIT. Just a single picture and you explaining away a fairly complex mechanism based on a single, finished picture.

lol…there’s all types of weird stuff going on in there? No…no…it is all explainable by science and physics sir. And it is not the temperature of the gas and smoke that would VAPORIZE the particles, only the temperature of the fire itself affects the gas and smoke and determines vaporization, if any. I think it would be best sir if you did not try and use your experience and heresay to try and fill in the gaps of the explanation and stick to reliable and valid facts from a scientific source because although your explaining things okay for someone who is watching this for simple passing knowledge in total lamens, for someone trying to make understand the science of what is happening, this won’t cut it. The short answer is that wood does not vaporize at the temperatures produced in a fireplace. It simply is no where near hot enough. If you burn wood hot and long enough, most of its constituents, primarily lignins and cellulose, will break down under the heat into more volatile particles; this process is called pyrolysis of wood. You are a very nice person though to your credit and even though that has absolutely nothing to do with what I am saying, I just wanted to let you know I appreciate the effort good sir. Keep trucking along!

lol it’s not “prefabicated”chimney….slow down a little when you speak and annunciate your words…it is PREFABRICATED…ya did the same thing when you gave your introduction containing your name which leads me to believe you said that super fast on purpose, precisely because you knew you had to say the word “prefabricated” and speaking fast in the few sentences you said before having to use the word gave you the out you needed to justify saying the following sentences - which contained the word you were so dreading - so fast that one could easily either miss your butchery of the word or chalk it up to you just speaking quickly but you and I know the truth, don’t we? It is okay you cannot say the word “prefabricate,” nor the many other words you routinely butcher in your other videos…I know I am giving you a super hard time for seemingly nothing but somebody has to call you out so you can improve. Your vocabulary and annunciations should match that spiffy jacket and top hat ya got on. But props on the great videos you make and the detail and depth you go into on the subject, much appreciated sir. I’m just kidding, you said the word again later perfectly and it is just obvious to me that any areas you stumble is only the result of you being nervous in front of the camera. Also, it is incredibly obvious that everything you said after your intro and…the word… was read off of a piece of paper or a computer or some prompt. Just saying…another area of Improvement perhaps, good sir. Now let me stfu. I got out what I absolutely had to say no matter what anyone in the world thinks or says about it because I just don’t give a F. Terrible video however…very bad….one or two pictures the entire video is a bad way to try and keep peoples’ attention spans.

Damn. That's probably what this cart is doing in my lungs

misleading title...should be called dont get damper unless its cat damper. wasted my time watching this.

And one other thing. Thats a pretty deep firebox. All the heats going up the flue. You are going to need a bigger chimney to accomodate that...... 2 firebrick deep or no 2 1/2 brick deep if you have a marble profile. That will give you a 3 and a half brick chimney on outside. And the walls need to be angled to relect heat into room.

Tight joints.... it does matter about joint thickness. With refactory mortar 1/8 to a 1/4 inch no more. I prefer 1/8. Refactory mortar I believe is good up to 2000°F. Regular cement about 700°. And you need to use tight joints and refactory cement between the flue liners as well, if its new build. It will take a long time to rot out. Tight joints in all burn areas. It will cost you well over $2000 to rebuild the firebox around here.

Can a wood stove be installed inside a Masonry fireplace?

I love your videos but id say please dont caulk your joints to repair them im restoring an old school where they did that and instead of fixing it it caused the bricks to retain moister behind the wall and blew out the rest of the joints if its more then one hole id avoid this method

I would never trust a guy who wears a suit that doesn’t fit him. 🫣

Use stone if you’re not going to run up a straight stack. Corbeling the brick in is what hacks do.

Hi! Thank you for this awesome video!! I had my Jotulle wood burning fireplace professionally cleaned in September 2023. I use it everyday. Today, I noticed black pieces of soot like pieces sitting outside on the snow. Is that creosote? Do I need my chimney cleaned again so soon? Also when the temperature lowers at the end of a burn how do you prevent creosote build up? Thank you so much for your wonderful video and information.

18" above grade? Mine sets about 1.5 inches above my back patio.

That man is correct.keep the chemny clean.

how do you air seal and insulate chimney in attic?

Thank you

Where can the outside door can be found? I try HD and nothing

YOU ARE CORRECT,GET THE CAPS OFF THE CHEMNEY SO IT CAN FREE FLOW UP.THE FASTER THE SMOKE GET UP OUT OF THE CHEMNEY THE LESS CRESOET. CLEAN THE CHEMNEYS OUT EVERY 6 MONTHS.BURN ONLY DRY CURED WOOD.

Thank you for addressing the codes. If anyone wants to read them go to Chapter 10 of the IRC.

Does anyone know what a damper clamp does and why it's needed? Or I guess what risks/problems occur if you DONT have a damper clamp?

Thanks for the video! I enjoyed it and now realize why I need to fill in the gap between my lintel bar in my fireplace. I had a chimney inspector come out and clean and look at it and that is what he says I need to do before I start using my fireplace.

I love this guys demeanor... hes got that "Best uncle on the planet" energy! Love your content, man!!

Micah Richards sent me here.

Disappointed you're not English with a small urchin by your side 😂 but I like your style 👍😁🇮🇪

Dress up in that garb to discuss the topic tells me it's a complete waste of time.

My wood stove pipe off the stove, use to get sooo hot, I worried about it, 18inches above pipe a thermometer, it said one night, 600 - 650 😮, so I designed a 3/16th thick steel baffle for it at 30 degrees angle inside of the box, changed the whole dynamic. Now, my fire box still vents great, nice hot fires in the box, brick lined inside with the new baffle, however, my pipe barely makes it over 350, most of time it stays at 275 - 300 degrees now, the whole time, the flames are blue and orange, when I look outside at night with a flashlight, barely any smoke out of it yet its venting well when I open the door. the stove I'm running is an old early 1990s Trailblazer stove, I found on Facebook Marketplace, bought for 160.00, bought new glass for it from Oregon Glass 70.00 bucks. resanded it and painted it with high heat black paint. Looks great now, seems to be running good, haven't had to use my Central Gas heat now hardly at all. What do you think of all of this? since your an expert. Thanks

Is there any diy to remove stage 3 of creosote? Like burning cans or burning the log buster few times a week for some period? You stated some temperature that I even can't imagine reach in my wood stove. The highest temperature I got in my stove pipe was 600 f. Thank you so much for your precious help

I have a heatilator built 1978 just had a chimney sweep here yesterday said the damper and firebox is in excellent condition with no rust. He did not remove the damper to sweep and there is not an access door on the chimney for the smoke shelf. He told me that he eatimates that he got 90%-95% of the smoke shelf clean by reaching into it. I took his advice as he's the professional. He also showed me video of the flu liner and told me I had some glazing toward the top of the flu and recomended I use cre away this winter and burn the fires a little hotter (dont let it smolder). He would come back in the spring to see if the cre away worked in flaking up the glazing if not we will most likely have to do a pcr treatment which he said roughly runs about $750-$900. The sweep cost me $210 does this all sound like legitimate professional advice/service?

I looked up this video because I want to know how it's possible that a house in my neighborhood has a window IN the masonry chimney on their second floor. I guess they no longer have a fireplace?

Need someone to better explane chimney shoulders that is an experienced CHIMNEY MASON not some person that wears a label or a brick mason! YOU NEED A WELL EXPERIENCED CHIMNEY MASON This video is an example of not knowing what you are talking about SHOULDERS SHOULD RUN FROM BACK TO FRONT of the chimney not as shown in this video!

I do not doubt that you have expertise in cleaning a chimney or flue. But you are no expert on the causes of creosote. The number one cause of creosote is operator error- people burning wet wood. There is no difference between hardwood and softwood when it comes to creosote. If your wood is below twenty percent moisture and you burn hot fires you will not have a creosote issue. If you disagree with what I am telling you, come back to me with some science. About the only correct point you have concerns the chimney being warm. Yes, you want an insulated chimney where it exits the roof. But that is more for controlling soot deposit than preventing creosote build-up. If there is no creosote in the exhaust none will be created in the flue. That is why masonry stoves and coal stoves do not deposit creosote in your flue and chimney. The masonry stove burns the wood volatiles completely because of its insulated firebox. The coal stove burns anthracite coal and simply does not have the ingredients for creosote.

Creepiest. Ad. Ever. You have no idea how people perceive things, apparently, unless that was your goal. Utter uncanny valley. Is this just so you can squat the phone number?

Dude what the fuck did I click why am I here

I accidentally clicked this video and I’m getting sleepy