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Some of you may have read or responded to an earlier post regarding my father's change from a 55 YO oil boiler to a new gas boiler. Thanks for the responses. I was talking to a contractor yesterday who told me that they can not vent the flue gas out a plastic vent inserted into the existing chimney. He told me that his best installation experts told him that especially with the chimney on the exterior of the structure, condensation would be a problem. He said that they could run supply and vent out the chimney if there was room, but vent only would not work.
It does not make a bit of sense to me. How can a warm tube in a chimney cause condensation problems? Note that venting laterally out the side of the house will have aesthetic problems. The only locations available are near entries visible from the front of the house.
It does not make a bit of sense to me. How can a warm tube in a chimney cause condensation problems? Note that venting laterally out the side of the house will have aesthetic problems. The only locations available are near entries visible from the front of the house.