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11/10/2026

Emergency call for oil boiler chimney with Terra cotta blockage… look at first picture,,, that’s a huge piece of Terra cotta blocking entire chimney from venting….. broken Terra cotta removed and 316ti Stainless steel chimney liner kit installed… boiler was less than 100k btus (output of exaust) going into a stone chimney with a 9x13 flue…. Boiler didn’t stand a chance of proper draft… stone retains so much cold in winter and causes boiler gases to instantly condensate… and the chimney Terra cotta was 2xs to big for such a small unit… chimney lined with stainless and all is safe for winter… packing it in…. I don’t want to sit in traffic for the other calls we still haven’t gotten to… tomorrow is another day

11/10/2026

Another emergency call… homeowners carbon monoxide detector went of not last night but night before in bedroom where chimney goes thru… once she took it outside bedroom the readings plummeted , showing it was just in bedroom where chimney was… we actually came to this yesterday but couldn’t get liner done because of getting stuck on late running job…. So homeowner just shut off heat for yesterday… 316 ti stainless steel chimney liner kit installed with outside T for water heater connection…. Everything is good to go…. Side note… any of those broken pieces could loosen and fall at anytime and cause carbon monoxide to get pumped into your home… that can never happen with a SS liner

11/10/2026

Blockages and liner calls…… heating season is creeping in.. T.E. Spall & Son

11/10/2026

OK YOU HAVE TO READ THIS…. The 2nd most bizarre call I have ever had in 22 years…… homeowner Had a new gas boiler installed last year… it never really worked correctly….. it would constantly trip the emergency spill switch and when someone would check chimney it was constantly full of brick dust blocking the gases from venting… so homeowner was finally advised she needed a liner because new boiler was saturating inside of unlined chimney and making inside fall apart…. So we went today to install the liner and we believed it was the visible chimney going up side of house…. IT WAS NOT!!… the boiler and water heater were drafting into the chimney in basement that never came out of roof… the chimney was previously taken down below roof and roof was replaced over the original chimney….. the old chimney sat on top of foundation and most likely is still behind the outside wall but never comes out of the roof…. Luckily there was an outside chimney that previously was used to vent an oil boiler but the thimble was waist high and too low for the gas boiler and water heater ,,so we had to remove 100 year old stacked stone foundation to reach the outside chimney then breach into chimney and install a 316 ti stainless steel liner kit.. had to vent pipe thru a obstacle course of steam pipe that was in the way but we got it done……. Very bizarre… god knows how long that boiler and water heater were just venting into the shell of the house with no way to vent out..….… I can see how that could happen when you see an opening in basement and you just “assume “ that’s where the new boiler is going… or the previous boiler was also in that dead chimney and the plumber assumed that’s where the new one went….. that’s a problem we see a lot with rental properties and flips… you never know what the previous people did to the house….. we got stuck on this job till 8pm but we got it done… rescheduled the rest of liners for tomorrow.. we’re still having decent weather so we should be all right this week…… oh Well see you tomorrow so we can do it all again… GOODNIGHT

11/10/2026

First liner today .. got a late start.. We had 7 liner calls and 4 were emergency liner calls…. This was a 316ti Stainless Steel chimney liner kit for new gas boiler being installed next week… there were no flues in chimney which makes it non code compliant for a new boiler install… liner installed and everything will be good to go……Mark C. Krasavage II Plumbing and Heating LLC

11/08/2026

EMERGENCY CALL ON SUNDAY… No Heat or Hot Water……New boiler not properly drafting and sooting up chimney and unit…. Boiler was 120k btus(output of exhaust) combine that with wind off lake and existing chimney temperature when short cycled unit came on and it just couldn’t get a draft going… 316ti Stainless Steel chimney liner kit installed and boiler draft checked and all good to go for winter…. Downsizing chimney with a stainless steel liner significantly improves your draft when chimney is too big for unit….

11/06/2026

316ti Stainless steel liner kit for blown out Terra cotta … Another beautiful day…

11/04/2026

2nd liner today for small gas boiler that was unlined and getting a new boiler… we removed a few rows of loose brick and added a new pre cast collar and cement stuccoed chimney from roof up… another one down.. and ready for the heating season….. rain tomorrow so maybe we will stay in…… or not….. too warm for any real emergencies (knock on wood)

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