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   rez | Nov 06, 2006 08:54pm | #1

   bump

   when in doubt add garlic

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   bhackford | Nov 08, 2006 04:08am | #2

   Thanks.  I still have to build this one.

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   rez | Nov 08, 2006 08:43pm | #3

   I'm thinking if you rewrite your post a bit differently and ask some more specific detailed questions you might get more response.

    

   but ya never know for sure

                                                                                                                                          

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   rez | Dec 02, 2006 08:27pm | #4

   Get it built yet?

    

    

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   Piffin | Dec 02, 2006 09:19pm | #5

   work your way up the chase 3-4 feet at a time, doing it all

    

    

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   bhackford | Dec 03, 2006 04:25am | #10

   Thanks that is what I thought.  I have not done a chade for this inspector and I was not sure if he would enforce the rock. 

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   Piffin | Dec 03, 2006 04:57am | #11

   Ask ahead of time. You might save some work. 

    

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   dovetail97128 | Dec 03, 2006 12:52am | #6

   Why are you rocking the whole inside of the chase? (that is what I understand your question to be anyway)
   Usual procedure here is to frame the chase, frame firestop at whatever elevation you need it to be and then either rock it to within 2' of the pipe and finish off around the pipe with a fire stop available thru your chimney manufacturer or have a sheet metal shop fab up a complete stop that covers the entire chase area with a hole where you want the pipe to penetrate.
   Might check out the zero clearance fireplace sites for install manuals, they have good PDF files that show cutaway drawings of typical instalations of their units in chases. Give you a good idea of what you are trying to do .

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   Piffin | Dec 03, 2006 01:31am | #8

   There are places that require the gypsum on the inside of the chase. IMO, it does the same job of firestop control if rocked on the outside, but some jurisdictions go insane with enforcing this.
   Where I saw it was in ski towns where houses were close, and condominiums wheree they weere closer, and most residents were onlyu there for a couple of weeks at a time and many knew nothing about how to build a fire safely, so the inspectors were on the front line of keeping the whole town from burning down. 

    

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   dovetail97128 | Dec 03, 2006 01:41am | #9

   Piffin,
   Thanks , as usual good information , and I can imagine local code people doing that. Just not something I have ever seen. Which points out one of the drawbacks to "answers" from these type forums.. local codes/enforcment rule and they do vary.

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   DanH | Dec 03, 2006 04:57pm | #12

   I once (about 15 years ago) had to build a chase in a Habitat house we were rehabbing. I framed it up so I could install the drywall facing inward on three sides, and it could be taped inside. After the inspection someone added the 4th side, screwed to cleats along the inside front edge, and then taped the outside edges of that last piece.In this case the flue was already in place, and no intermediate baffles were required.
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   Framer | Dec 03, 2006 01:14am | #7

   >> Are there any good books, website or drawings of how to build a fireplace chase? I still do not understand how you get a ladder up one to dry wall? Then once the firestops are in how do you put the pipe in? <<

   I frame them like a regular wall. I run the shoes and plates around the perimeter and then frame the wall. At 8' I nail plywood on top. If it's a two story house, I do the same thing when I get to the second floor. Frame them with the second floor walls.

   I leave a couple outside sheats tacked in for the fireplace installer to remove and install his pipe. Some installers don't need the plywood tacked in.

   Don't know why you're sheetrocking it though.

   Joe Carola