Furnace install without chimney liner?
I was wondering if you guys could answer a couple of questions about furnace install and chimney liners, or lack of one.
First a little background.
Good customer of mine, older gentleman in his late 70's,, has owned and lived in the same house for 40+ yrs. lost his wife of 60 yrs. last year.
His daughter convinces him to move to Fla. for the winter, and live with her.
He knows his furnace is shot and needs to be replaced before he moves south, and closes the place up for the winter. So he calls the company that's been servicing the old unit for many years, very well known local company.
They install new high efficiency oil fired forced hot water unit, he goes south for the winter, and leaves the thermostat set at 45*.
This spring the daughter comes up to open up the house and do some much needed spring cleaning. And then I get a call telling me that the chimney, above the roof line is falling over, and the second dloor bedroom ceiling is comletley soaked and stained brown, along with the closet that houses the chimney, and there is a horrible odor throuout the second floor of the house.
They never had any signs of a problem with the old unit.
So I call a local chimney repair company, they come over to look and he explains how there is NO chimney liner at all just a 60 yr. old brick chimney, that is letting carbon monoxide into the house. Then he opens the clean out door and there is soot/debris piled up to the inlet of the furnace pipe approx. 2' high.
My question is , is it standard practice to install new high efficiency furnace into an old masonry chimney without a liner?
Would you as the installer or company have mentioned something to the owner about the necessity of a liner?
Is there a code concerning this?
Would you clean out bottom of chimney of soot /debris before installing new unit?
The owner also told me that he recently received a letter from the fire dept. saying that his new furnace was not inspected after install, and he needs to set up appt. to do so. I am wondering if it could pass without a liner?
Needless to say new stainless liner and chimney rebuild scheduled for next week.
Thanks for any info you can give me.
I was wondering if you guys could answer a couple of questions about furnace install and chimney liners, or lack of one.
First a little background.
Good customer of mine, older gentleman in his late 70's,, has owned and lived in the same house for 40+ yrs. lost his wife of 60 yrs. last year.
His daughter convinces him to move to Fla. for the winter, and live with her.
He knows his furnace is shot and needs to be replaced before he moves south, and closes the place up for the winter. So he calls the company that's been servicing the old unit for many years, very well known local company.
They install new high efficiency oil fired forced hot water unit, he goes south for the winter, and leaves the thermostat set at 45*.
This spring the daughter comes up to open up the house and do some much needed spring cleaning. And then I get a call telling me that the chimney, above the roof line is falling over, and the second dloor bedroom ceiling is comletley soaked and stained brown, along with the closet that houses the chimney, and there is a horrible odor throuout the second floor of the house.
They never had any signs of a problem with the old unit.
So I call a local chimney repair company, they come over to look and he explains how there is NO chimney liner at all just a 60 yr. old brick chimney, that is letting carbon monoxide into the house. Then he opens the clean out door and there is soot/debris piled up to the inlet of the furnace pipe approx. 2' high.
My question is , is it standard practice to install new high efficiency furnace into an old masonry chimney without a liner?
Would you as the installer or company have mentioned something to the owner about the necessity of a liner?
Is there a code concerning this?
Would you clean out bottom of chimney of soot /debris before installing new unit?
The owner also told me that he recently received a letter from the fire dept. saying that his new furnace was not inspected after install, and he needs to set up appt. to do so. I am wondering if it could pass without a liner?
Needless to say new stainless liner and chimney rebuild scheduled for next week.
Thanks for any info you can give me.
