It’s up.

We have a start-to-finish chimney.

And I never want to have to do an external chimney pipe again as long as I live. Remember, that’s an 18-ft wall. So those heavy, slippery, 3 ft sections have to be wrangled up a ladder and then wrestled into place.

Ladders, no matter how sturdy, wiggle. It is beyond unnerving. Even with using ropes, it was not a simple job.

Cutting the hole is one of the harder parts. Because it has to be marked from the underneath (at too high to reach properly, and thus we use the marker-on-a-stick mathod), but cut from the top for the sake of safety. So mark with a wobbly marker, awkwardly drill holes around the perimeter, then cut from that approximation up top.

The rafters the pipe goes up between had to be metal-clad (per building code). Awkward, difficult angles. Exhausting bit of hammering.

The final piece of pipe had to be hauled up on the roof and lowered through the hole, while guided and steadied by person on ladder up front, and then the final wall brace had to be attached

Now, to be fully transparent, we arent finished. The top of a chimney needs to extend 2 ft above the top of the roof, and it’s too short. So we will need to add another 12 or 18″ section. That, at least will be straightforward. We’re also still lacking 4 locking rings for holding the sections together. And the hole in the roof ended up being too big to simply caulk, so we will need to add a flashing of some kind. Those things are relatively minor matters (unless it rains before we get it attended to). I can get the pipe and the locking rings today. The flashing, I will have to check. We may be able to MAKE a fully-serviceable one with leftover roof steel.