[TheForge] Murphy strikes again. But fails!

[Larry Brown]

Congratulations on your win against the fire gods. It's a good reminder to 
us all to watch where we leave them food.

I'm in NYC and when I put a second story on my house I replaced the chimney 
with a double wall pipe to my gas boiler. The fireplace guys said they just 
stick the pipe in the wall but NYC Code either required a large (I think 3 
1/2") gap between it and a sheetrock layer inside a 2x4  box wall or a 1" 
layer of structolite on masonry mesh and a 1" gap. This is for a gas boiler 
that doesn't build up the creosote. Probably over kill but I did what they 
wanted. I'm sure they have fires that back their reasoning

Murphy did the cell phone battery in

L Brown



>That won't happen again. That joint will get gasket rope chinked into it 
>and the swiveling joints in the adjustable elbow will get a wrap of 
>muffler tape. All new parts of course and maybe an all new stack. If I 
>have to replace the stack, it'll get encased in double sheetrock and 
>wrapped with Kaowool. Overkill? Maybe. HAH!