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Finally got a stubborn old flue in a 1920s house to draw right...
It was a brick chimney on a house in the old part of town, and the owner said it always smoked up the room. I checked it last fall and the draft was just... nothing. Came back this week after they had the roof redone, and the difference was night and day. The new roofer had raised the chimney crown by about two inches, which was just enough to clear the tree line. Now it pulls like a dream. Anyone else had a fix that simple solve a huge draft problem?
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brian8655mo ago
Wait, they raised the chimney crown by TWO INCHES and that was the whole fix? That's wild. I've seen guys tear out whole liners or install massive fans for draft issues. The idea that a couple inches above the roofline was the only problem this whole time blows my mind. Nature is picky as heck sometimes.
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davidmurphy5mo ago
Right, "nature is picky as heck" is the perfect way to put it. It reminds me of how a tiny air leak can make a door slam shut or a single missing shingle can cause a huge leak. So many big, noisy problems come down to a simple break in a basic rule, like how air moves over a roof. We jump to complex fixes when the answer is often just putting the thing back where it was supposed to be in the first place.
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