hey you guys want to thank you guys for watching my videos guys this video right here is going to be is going to run just a little bit long but it's about how to clean and repair your chimney every year guys hundreds and hundreds of people's homes burned down because they don't have their flus and chimneys properly inspected and cleaned get a professional to do it if you don't want to do it yourself but do have it done so that you can save your property and possibly your lives thanks for watching and have a great day hey you guys welcome to my Creed outdoors guys thanks for watching hey guys every year in my neighborhood and yours people who use wood burning stoves lose their houses and tragic fires because they haven't inspected your chimney and done it the right way or got somebody else to do it today I'm going to show you how to inspect your chimney for cracks on the inside and the outside I'm going to show you how to change a thimble because the poten inspection of mine this year I found that my thimble is Christ now what I've done guys because we're going to take a look down that we're going to take a look down that chimney with the camera that I've got on my tripod right there and what I've got right here is a 10-foot long piece of PVC pipe right into the end of it I hope you can see that I've got a wooden plug that's locked in there then on the end of that wooden plug I've screwed a quarter 20 boat quarter 20 boat is what's the is the same size that's on the bottom of your camera when you hook it up to your tripod that's what it is so we're gonna set up a ladder we're gonna take this the camera and we're going to stick it down this chimney right here and inspect it for cracks that way and then I will show you guys the cracked thimble and how to replace it okay you guys first of all I want to show you this right here that's creosote now I burn approximately probably two and a half cords of wood at last winter I clean this chimney out but this stuff will just automatically in the summertime look at that will fall right on out for that chimney when it gets when when you stop cooking the chimney but this stuff right here is what burns your house down this stuff when it catches on fire and it will catch on fire guys there ain't no question about it this is what does it this stuff burns so intense inside that chimney that it will get thousands of degrees inside that chimney at the fire department don't get there and you've got a leak inside that chimney anywhere this is gonna burn your house down so check this out we're gonna take a look down this chimney in a minute but I've cleaned it out twice last winter but that's still what fell out of the fell out of it this summer creosote tell you guys I'm just gonna just show you the outside of the chimney first I've got this on the pole that's one way of inspecting that chimney on the outside as well at the inside right there you'll see a patch on that chimney and that's where my thimble comes out too it's cracked but hopefully the inside liner is not cracked Brown stuff you see on the chimney it's where the creosote just run down it over the years you can see that I'm patching it and we'll eventually brick this chimney okay you guys there's the top of the chimney and I've already looked down it with my naked I'm gonna have to put a light I'm gonna have to rig up a light in each team way so we can see inside this chimney one thing I do want to tell you though that you'll notice now that there's no creosote on the outside of this chimney anymore when you put a cap on top of a chimney that calls this creosote to build up even quicker inside your chimney that creosote sticks to that cap and then runs down the side of your chimney and it does all kind it causes just all kind of ugly things on the outside of your your house and basically just some really you know just corrosive looking stuff and it will actually eat your roof off if you have a metal roof so I'm gonna have to rig us up a light to stick down the inside that chimney so that we can actually look down it alright let's give it a shot see it need to brush down the most of that step feel off doing this summer at that point right there guys you should be looking through my pimple I'm gonna bring you up I'm gonna see what we got okay guys it looks like I'm gonna have to take my brush and put it down that chimney I don't see any cracks in it right there right off the right off the bat but I haven't got it on my computer yet but that's a good thing about doing this you can clean out your chimney then you stick your camera down it just like you seen me do right there I just taped a little Oh pin light right on this piece of pipe and lift that up so that I can see there's what that rig looks like guys unite quarter-twenty bolt very simple okay you guys were getting side now here's here's what led me to the to look and see if there was anything else wrong with my chimney this piece of pipe had been in there sticking right in there guys for at least 12 years it took tup my stove my stove is I fish our stove in my stove lakes 610 pounds without any firewood in so it's very heavy and the way I've got it made I've got you know I've got this brick wall that I laid some 20-some years ago and it sits on a concrete slab six inches thick but even though that concrete slab guys is six inches thick that still don't mean that you that that won't set your house on fire so I'll show you a little trick that I did I come up with - you know spontaneous combustion can you know that piece of what can get hot or that slab can get hot and penetrate all the way down to that piece of wood and over time spontaneous combustion will set that set your house on fire so we're talk about that - I'll show you how I come up with a solution for that anyway that piece of pipe was rusted out and when I open it up we haven't had any rain guys the video significant amount for at least two weeks very dry outside this piece of pipe on my stove was wringing wet and what I discovered was if my air-conditioned house is causing that piece of pipe to sweat because a hot air will come down that chimney at times in the hot humid air when it comes down we hit that cold surface and make it sweat so it actually rusted that piece of pipe out the fire plus the creosote over the years has caused that piece of pipe to rust out and I just made that discovery so I'm going to let you see a close-up of the thimble and why I'm going to replace it see those cracks even though that's sticking in a pretty decent chimney guys that still here how loose that is that will still that gases come back out into your your dwelling so you don't want that to happen so guys here what we're gonna do is we're going to change I'm gonna change this thing out the middle and I want to establish the bottom of this this piece of pipe right here so that it matches my stove again because that's very critical have very much wiggle room here so I wanna measure down and that's seven inches to the bottom of this thimble so when I put my new one in there I want to maintain that but what I'm doing is I'm changing it out to two metal that way it won't crack and you can buy these things galvanized but I didn't buy a galvanized when I just picked up a piece of scrap iron and cut me a piece of it guys so that I could just stick it right back in that hole and grout it in and not have any more problems with cracks so we'll get we'll get started on it and I'll let you take a look it's not that hard to get that PML out of course these blocks are only like four inches thick so from there then you're going to be right inside your chimney you know you to be as a is a piece of an oval shape cut in so what you need to do it with it's a good hammer a good Chancellor and very gently take this thing out just don't pound hammer because you'll crack stuff but you don't want to crack even you're Chamblee family so just bury jet broke apart most of that stuff gets cracked in that thimble this fall right after I see so I'm go ahead future taking it out and clean it up and then I'll show it to you that way there we are guys we're looking right in there without the thimble in that chimney now it's about nine and a half inches deep you see that crack at that crack right there was believing or not letting some letting some gases get back into the dwell and you just don't you just don't really realize it but they do carbon dioxide okay so we definitely done good when we inspected this chimney because it was in really bad shape okay guys there's what my new thimbles gonna look like see that all I got to do is grab that thing in really good and let's set up that's how you replace that pimple hey you guys I just want to let you check this out from the inside of the chimney there one more time always make sure you brush all the debris and stuff right around the edge where this thing was going to go and this is actually a two-step process what we're going to do guys is large the concrete and that's just plain old mortar mix just go to the hardware store and get you some over here I've got some water the reason I say this is a two-step process is what we want to do to get this stuff wet right here so there's a concrete that we put in there will stick to it no it won't stick to it very well it'll stick but not very well so you get that nice and wet now what you want to do guys is you want to get you a packing tool that's just a stick and when I have that symbol on that bed of mortar to get that mortar to go back inside there I have to have a packing tool and I just use a stick to do it you just you just push that mortar right back in there until you feel that but what we're going to do is we'll bed the thing and we'll let the things set up so that when we start to pack it all the way around that thimble won't move on us I hope you guys understand that we'll bed it first and let that set up then we will pack it because there there it is with the bed laid in place make sure when you do that you feel they every one of those cracks that you found in your channeling any work you had a crack in there take that mortar and just fill it in then we'll take this new pimple we'll stick it in place that looks pretty good with the wall let's take our measurement seven inches is what it was to the bottom of a hole that's what we're looking for now notice that we shaved off some as we went in there so we'll take that put it back in the bucket you also have to reach after this thing sits up guys make sure it's live okay we're a little bit slanted back okay now when you when this thing sets up you want to reach in behind that thimble right there in pack the concrete mix around your thumb so we know it's been adhered here so I can fill it up too right here it's pretty much it's pretty much set and ready so that's what that party that looks like fun fun guys it's about four hours later that's setting up really good and I'll just wait until tomorrow morning until that's really good and hard then I'll pack the top of it right here now you're looking inside that stove guys and right back there on the left-hand side you can see water dripping down and as I look around there inside that stove that stove is sweating on the inside and I stuck my fingers in there just a minute ago and you wouldn't believe it but you see how wet that is right there that's what's causing the stove that's what causes your stove to rest apart I guess I didn't know this now being burning firewood for years but you look at that stuff right there soaking wet so we've both learned something today guys we're gonna have to do something to stop that from happening okay guys this this thimble is finished it's being cured now for about 12 hours or a little bit more than that you can see I've packed the top real good and while I was doing so I reached my hand on the backside of it and I'll pack the back side while I was packing the front side so that that opening that you saw there and the other video was filled up so that's what it looks like now now I can get me some new stovepipe and put my stove back in place