Also
known as fireplace liners, flue liners, chimney flues, or
flexible chimney liners. Chimney liners are the passageway in
the fireplace or furnace flue through which gases (carbon
monoxide) and smoke travel in order to escape your home safely.
Stainless steel chimney liners separate the fireplace or the furnace
exhaust from the rest of your house. A wise homeowner will want to know
about the condition of the whole chimney, including the fire liners, in the
home he/she owns or plans to buy.
Advantages of stainless steel chimney liners:
- Stainless steel chimney liners have a lifetime warranty.
- Stainless steel chimney liners provide superior fire protection for
your home.
- Meet code requirements for safe operation and resale.
- Stainless steel chimney liners are one long continuous piece – not
sectional (no connectors or fireplace mortar joints to shift or separate
like clay tile chimney liners).
When your original construction fire clay flue tile liners are cracked,
the cracks open during the heating phase and allow gases to pass through to
your chimney walls. The gases, being acidic, attack the masonry and will
shorten the life of your masonry structure. In addition, this will lead to
carbon monoxide in your home. Stainless steel chimney liners are needed to
exhaust all poisonous gas and chimney smoke out of your home safely.
The NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) Code 211 requires that
all masonry chimneys be lined. Unlined chimneys are so unsafe that
researchers characterized building chimneys without chimney liners as
"little less than criminal”. The installation of fire liners in chimneys
has been recommended since the early part of the 1900’s.
