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Wacky Weds: On no they didn’t…

There aren’t to many things that will surprise me, but I also know I haven’t seen it all either – with that imagine my surprise as I pop my head into the attic and see this…

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Well now that is an interesting flue…

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Yep, believe it or not someone took an oil drum (in this case one used for transporting transmission fluid) and used it for a flue liner… Yeah you can tell this house was home-made

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Comments

  1. Paul at Da Vinci Remodeling says

    November 4, 2015 at 21:40

    Now that’s funny right there! Out of curiosity, how long has it been doing
    its job?

    • SLS Construction says

      November 5, 2015 at 06:47

      Best guess is approx. 40+ years when it was built / boiler put in

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