How to Install Steel Chimney Liners
- 1). Check the kit to be sure that all the necessary parts have arrived and nothing has been left out. Take time to read all the installation literature.
- 2). Uncoil the liner. Have someone hold down one end.
- 3). Put on work gloves. Remove protective tape at the ends of the liner and connect the connecting device. Tighten the hose clamp that secures the connecting device to the liner. Use a screwdriver.
- 4). Insert the tee snout at the bottom of the chimney. The tee snout goes in the hole at the bottom of the chimney and connects to the liner via the connecting device. Get a helper and have him wait at the bottom of the chimney to tell you when the liner meets the tee snout.
- 5). Guide the liner down the chimney, keeping it centered in the chimney as you go. You may have to twist it as you ease it down. Have your partner call out when it has reached the bottom.
- 6). Place the top plate -- the new metal piece that sits atop the chimney crown -- over the protruding liner to gauge the excess material that must be removed. Cut the liner level with the top edge of the top plate with a hack saw or tin snips.
- 7). Lay a bead of silicone around the top of the crown to keep water from seeping beneath the top plate. Press the top plate into place. Tighten the hose clamp with a screwdriver and secure the top plate to the chimney crown with masonry screws or rivets. The top plate comes with four pre-drilled holes to facilitate this.
- 8). Attach the cap to the top plate by tightening the hose clamp with a screwdriver.
- 9). Ensure that the tee snout is secured to the liner by whatever mechanism your particular model uses. Fill the hole around the tee snout once the snout is secured to the body of the liner via the connecting device. How you fill the hole is up to you. You could patch it with brick and mortar or do something less formal with mortar and brick-and-tile scrap material and cover the entire hole with a custom metal plate painted with stove paint and secured to the wall.
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