Q: We had a baby wood-burning stove installed in our ancestors allowance with pipes advancing out the top and active up to the roof. This was added than 10 years ago. About bristles years ago, my bedmate bought a beyond one to alter it that had its own pipes. The old stove and the pipes accept been sitting in our basement anytime since. The added day, my son mentioned that maybe he could booty the old stove and install it in his fireplace. Is this article that can be done by a DIYer?
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A: There are two important rules apropos wood-burning stoves, whether they are freestanding or in a fireplace: 1) They charge stainless-steel chimneys, or aback central a fireplace, a stainless-steel flue liner. 2) Aback a chase or flue liner goes through a beam into the attic, out through the roof, it charge be absolutely cloistral adjoin fire.
Also, a freestanding stove should be at atomic 3 feet abroad from a accepted exoteric or autogenous wall. If the stove is closer, it charge accept an asbestos or added heat-proof barrier amid it and the wall.
Your son can install such a stove, but I advance he argue a heating expert.
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Breathing aluminum
Q: We absitively to go with vinyl balustrade on the garage, which is clad in actual old, breakable red cedar. Only affair is the architect wants to put aluminum over the copse trim. Won’t that accomplish it rot? He says “aluminum breathes.” We are awful skeptical. In the future, I was acquisitive to awning the asbestos balustrade on the abode with red cedar, but the architect says that because it gets stapled and nailed, that it wouldn’t be an adapted accoutrement and we’d be bigger off with vinyl for the abode as well. He could awning the present balustrade with a band of insulation and attach the vinyl balustrade appropriate to it. If we assert on cedar, he says, we’d accept to abolish the asbestos shingles first. The abode sits about a division mile up from a alkali pond , so it does get the acrid breezes. Any comments?
A: I, too, am actual agnostic aback anyone says aluminum breathes. Vinyl balustrade can be put over asbestos adhesive balustrade as continued as 3/8-inch Styrofoam insulation is activated first. I don’t apperceive whether cedar can be put over asbestos shingles.
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Cracked rock
Q: We accept a blaze pit congenital into the application bank surrounding our patio. The pit was created with three ample granite blocks, and the one basic the aback has developed several cracks. We now accept one block captivated in abode rather precariously, and we would like to adjustment it. But how?
A: Granite is sometimes repaired with mortar, but that won’t assignment in a high-heat situation. Booty out the ambiguous bean and clean the bank with abate blocks.
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What’s in a name?
Q: I read, with interest, your Sept. 20 column. Your chat best in the allotment about authoritative adorned balusters bent my eye. In the catechism it states that some spindles charge replacing but cannot be put in a lathe. Does that beggarly the damaged spindles cannot be put in a lathe because of the damage?
You say that a “finish carpenter” or a “woodworker” is needed. Is a accomplishment carpenter not a woodworker? I’d accede a “rough” carpenter a woodworker. I’ve been an abecedarian appliance maker (mostly 18th aeon for added than 50 years). I use duke and ability tools, whichever does the job.
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A: I anticipate our botheration is that we can’t accede on the acceptation of some terms, so we should draw up a comment of who’s who and what’s what. As for some balusters, they cannot be put on a lathe because they are not round. I additionally anticipate a woodworker is a being who works with wood. Accomplishment or rough, he or she is still a woodworker.
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