I have an old victorian house, built in 1892, which has had the old coal fire replaced by a harmony 2 oil boiler (before we moved in).
For some reason only one of the four chimney pots remains, and that last one is on a dead chimney. The plan is to reinstate all the chimney pots to make the house look right, but, the chimney that the oil boiler actually uses has no pot on top. There's just the brickwork on the roof ridge. There's just a 10 inch length, including the cowl, of the liner sticking up. To put a pot on there would need the flue to be extended by about 20 inches, including the new cowl, so that the cowl will be just above the replaced pot.
Can anybody point me in the right direction on how to extend the flue, or in fact, can it be done at all?
For some reason only one of the four chimney pots remains, and that last one is on a dead chimney. The plan is to reinstate all the chimney pots to make the house look right, but, the chimney that the oil boiler actually uses has no pot on top. There's just the brickwork on the roof ridge. There's just a 10 inch length, including the cowl, of the liner sticking up. To put a pot on there would need the flue to be extended by about 20 inches, including the new cowl, so that the cowl will be just above the replaced pot.
Can anybody point me in the right direction on how to extend the flue, or in fact, can it be done at all?