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Default Does an exiting chimney require a flue liner?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher
saying something like:


Well i think that you should call Corgi for advise regards your chimney
liner..Any gas engineer will tell you a standard brick chimney DOES NOT
required a liner so long as it is in good condition ,,,meets the
correct sizes,,,and passes the flue flow test....there are regulations
that confuse non gas trained people///ive serviced tens of thousands of
gas fires WITHOUT liners....If the smoke test proves a faulty Flue then
i advise that a flue liner is required..


Thius is completely WRONG

Brick chimneys MUST be lined with

- socketed clay liners or
- imperforate clay pipes or
- socketed cement pipes. or
- fixed metal tubes or
= felxible liners for chimneys already equipped or built before 1966

This is a Building Regulation.


You mean....

Gasman is talking out of his arse?

Must be where his nick comes from.
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Dave
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