Fireplace pipe and woodstove pipe are not the same. But, you may be able to
put a woodstove in the room and run the woodstove pipe (UL103HT) into the
chase with a "T". Contact a local fireplace company.

--
John Galbreath Jr.
http://www.firelogs.com/

Irondale, Alabama
888.321.Logs



"Sultan of Cheap" wrote in message
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Hi:

In the top floor condo which I recently bought there is a 52"-wide frame
for a
fireplace, with a masonry chimney directly over it on the roof. But there
is no
fireplace - the whole frame is completely sheetrocked. Condos to my left
and
right have fireplaces, as well as a condo directly below me.

So I cut a hole in the sheetrock of the frame and what do I see: a flue
pipe
for a Heatilator HD 42AI fireplace, resting on my concrete floor and going
all
the way up to the roof (20 feet). This is a 10" outer pipe and 8" inner
pipe,
SC300 series from Heatilator. I also see the fluepipe from the neighbor
below
me who has a working Heatilator fireplace running in parallel to my pipe
to the
roof.

Then I realize why they never installed a fireplace in my unit, even
though
they installed a flue pipe. The frame is filled with some sort of
lattice-like
massive structural support structure, made of 1/4"-thick L-shaped steel
beams,
resting in the four corners of the sheetrock frame (bolted to the concrete
floor), and going up all the way to the ceiling, obviously supporting
SOMETHING. The flue pipe is in the middle of it. Because of this structure
there is no place for a 42", or even 36" fireplace. The clearance between
the
massive vertical support beams is only 34". My guess is that they HAD to
support something late in construction (maybe boiler), so they used my
shaft.

What WOULD fit inside that structure is a wood-burning stove. Can I use
the
existing flue pipe for that? Otherwise I guess I can forget about any kind
of
fireplace (there is no gas in my unit).

Thanks for any advice.