Smoke Chambers Chamber Foam, SmokTite, Chamber Coat
The smoke chamber (the area above the damper) is the weakest link in your fireplace system and in most cases have large gaps and holes where smoke, heat, sparks and flames can get through and cause a fire in the walls surounding your fireplace.
What is Smoktite? Smoktite is an insulating, ceramic, cement mix designed specifically for use in the smoke chamber, it is sprayed in with a compressor, it mixes like pancake batter and dries rock hard like cement.
We use Smoktite to help seal and fill these holes and gaps.
Chamber Coat, mixed and is “thrown up like a snow ball” and it sticks and we can form the smoke chamber for better air flow and to help insulate it.
Depending on what you have we will choose the best product for your chimney
Here is what a properly constructed Smoke Chamber looks like
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After Chamber Foam
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A dangerous smoke chamber venting smoke and soot around the flue tile (orange colored square tile) into the inner chimney that can burn through walls and ceilings into the home. This is how the masons built this chimney.
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Here is a Chamber Coat
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Another smoke Chamber with Chamberr Coat applied
Crack down the inside of the smoke chamber
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After the SmokeTite
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With insulation in place
After Smoke Tite is applied
Here is a before showing large holes and gaps
Here we stuffed insulation into the larger holes
After Smoke Tite was applied
Here is a smoke chamber and it shows holes
Here we fill the holes with insulation
And here it is with Smoke Tite applied
Here is another before
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Insulation
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