Also don't want to make a new thread, so here's a semi-related question:
Has anyone (or does anyone know if I can) installed a wood burning stove into their house and used the existing chimney to run the steel flue?
Here's some background:
The house, like a typical 60's house, has a cinderblock chimney in the utility room, right next to the furnace. This chimney is/was used to vent combustion gases from the furnace and the water heater. The old furnace was replaced with high efficiency furnace which no longer vents through the chimney, rather through direct venting (ABS plastic piping) through the side foundation of the home. At some point I will need to replace the water heater, which I will probably also replace with something high efficiency that I presume will also vent through the side of the home. At this point, the chimney would be basically useless.
I have considered the possibility of removing the chimney altogether to make room for a bigger pantry in the kitchen above it, but that would be a lot of labour. Also considered reusing it as a conduit for a wood burning stove flue, hence my question here.
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