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Yesterday I posted some questions and some were answered and most of them not. I am thinking about fixing some of the fireplaces of a brownstone. I have read many opinions but I couldn’t find an answer to some of my questions:

– Anybody has purchased the stainless steel liner and installed it with the help of a good mason instead of going to a ‘chimney contractor’?

– What kind of damper do you recommend?

– Where did you purchase the firebricks and the refractory cement?

– Any recommendation about the best stainless steel liner company?

– Apparently the ‘chimney contractors’ recommend the round stainless steel liner but the companies that sell liners are recommending the square chimney liners to reline a brownstone chimney because originally were square and they say that you shouldn’t make it much smaller… Anyway, the more you investigate the more you know the amount of choices that contractors don’t even tell you about.

– Any additional recommendation?

– The last question: Anybody has ever asked a permit to the DOB to fix a fireplace or to reline a chimney?