Thread Number: 75089
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Roof caps/vents |
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Post# 989146 , Reply# 2   4/2/2018 at 00:51 (2,187 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit)   |   | |
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Post# 989186 , Reply# 3   4/2/2018 at 09:41 (2,187 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 989190 , Reply# 4   4/2/2018 at 10:28 (2,187 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 989191 , Reply# 5   4/2/2018 at 10:31 (2,187 days old) by sambootoo (Moody, AL)   |   | |
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Yep. Me too! I've always liked the vent caps, chimney caps, exhaust fans, etc. Still look at them when driving around! |
Post# 989208 , Reply# 6   4/2/2018 at 14:33 (2,187 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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"Heinzman's Heidelberg". If you don't know it, ask your folks. Mount Clemens pottery too. Both had chimeny's. |
Post# 989859 , Reply# 9   4/8/2018 at 01:07 (2,181 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Speaking of exhaust fans venting through chimneys, it seems that both the kitchen vent hood and the bathroom fan in the basement of my home vent throught the right port of the chimney (as seen on the picture below). I don't quite understand this as the other ones are for fireplaces and I am pretty certain that the oil fired boiler that was replaced with a gas boiler in 2000 or 2001 and that it vented through the chimney that's still being used for the vent hood and exhaust fan.
Since there's no visible duct in the attic and that the ceiling is not accessible anywhere in the basement and that the kitchen cabinets are from 1965 and the basement and bathroom downstairs have been mostly unchanged since the early 1980s, I can't figure how the chimney could have been used for both the boiler, the water heater (which I assume was originally oil-fired) and for the vent hood at the same time. Has that ever been allowed? The tile roof is also original to the house so I'd be very surprised if there was a vent going through it originally as there are no traces of modifications that I could see (there's not even a vent for the plumbing).
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Post# 989873 , Reply# 10   4/8/2018 at 06:25 (2,181 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA)   |   | |
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And your parents didn't send you to a psychiatrist? Boys are supposed to be interested in baseball and girls, not roof vents!
PhilR, it is possible that the one chimney on your house contains 3 separate flues, one services the boiler + water heater, one the fireplace, but usually they don't vent fans through a chimney, although I suppose it is possible. |
Post# 989888 , Reply# 11   4/8/2018 at 09:35 (2,181 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 989954 , Reply# 13   4/8/2018 at 19:10 (2,180 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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I know the bathroom and kitchen fans are connected to the chimney as some air escapes from the top of the poorly sealed cover where I think the boiler used to connect to the chimney when either of the fans are on.
You can hear it in the video below when the bathroom fan is on. It would do the same with the vent hood turned on in the kitchen: The brick wall has also been patched in the heating room where the center chimney is (behind the electric water heater), I don't know why, I think it is for the fireplace in the basement as the fireplace is at the center of the chimney, there is a cleaning door below that patch at the right of the water heater, there's also another cleaning door on the left of the water heater which I assume is for the fireplace upstairs. I have never used the fireplaces, both have fiberglass insulation in their chimneys to avoid heat losses as the former owner of my house didn't use them either and I never bothered to remove the insulation. There is no cleaning door below the cover which I think was used for oil-fired boiler on the right. The fifth picture shows two covers that block grilles on the side of the living room fireplace and a floor register below. I don't know what they were used for but I think maybe the one of the floor was for an humidifier as there is still the wiring and the humidistat that used to control it. |
Post# 989960 , Reply# 14   4/8/2018 at 19:38 (2,180 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 989992 , Reply# 15   4/8/2018 at 23:25 (2,180 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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They aren’t KLH but they were also made by Henry Kloss after he sold KLH. I got the two « New Advent » speakers for cheap and a pair of « The New Smaller Advent » for free and I had them refoamed.
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