How To Use Vermiculite In Chimneys

This stuff absorbs and retains water so if your chimney leaks water at all the insulation material will gradually get wetter absorbing like a sponge.

How to use vermiculite in chimneys.

I have my reservations about these methods. Fitting a flue liner how to fit a flue liner into a chimney for a woodburner or fire. Fitting a flue liner into a chimney for a woodburner or stove. This diy project includes pictures of a real installation of a wood burning stove.

It can be used to pour back down the chimney filling the void between the brick chinmey and the flexible flue liner. Filling between a tin flue and the chimney could be a disaster if the insulation caused the tin to overheat and a hot spot that could easily ignite any creosote. You have to have knowledge how much and what to use experience how to when to and how long to mix and the placement techniques. 100litre bag of vermiculite insulation for backfilling the chimney around the liner.

Hello having a chimney built its a concrete linear with vermiculite infill to chimney stack read on the bag the vermicuite comes in that it can be used with cement mix for infill the bricky however says that on all the work hes ever done on chimneys they always pour the vermiculite straight in the brickys a good bloke and i believe thats how it can be done as well but wondered if any one.