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valleyman02 t1_ixe6b9d wrote

Did you talk to anybody about lining your chimney? They just stick a 6-in pipe up through the old chimney. My chimney are very old. We did have to retop one chimney. We run a furnace/hot water through one and a pellet stove through the other.

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movdqa OP t1_ixe6rh3 wrote

The water heater is in the basement and it runs through a metal chimney that's 3 inches in diameter. We don't have any chimneys related to fireplaces. The house has four floors. Code is 4 inches but it sounds like 6 would be a better idea.

We're going with electric. Hopefully they can do it tomorrow.

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valleyman02 t1_ixe73em wrote

Yea not having hot water gets old fast. The joys of homeownership! Good luck

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movdqa OP t1_ixe7njv wrote

My wife is in Singapore and I can put the kids in another residence that we share but that place doesn't have internet access. I'm putting that in next week.

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