The Republican journal., 1921-05-05
Your Chimney

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Is it Of Proper Height and Size to Secur,
/ Best Results? Millions Of Dollars
| Wasted With Bad Ones.
1t matters not whether you are oper-
ating cook or heating stove, furnace,
steam or hot water heating plant, you
cannot obtain economical and satisfactory
results without proper chimney.
oxygen, Ordinarily spoken of as air. is
as essential as coal to proper com pustion
ana proper amount mixed with fuel
gases will deliver maximum degree of
heating results as proper mixture of
oxygen, Cor air., in an automobile car
buretor is necessary to its greatest degree
of power.
these results can only be obtained by
chimney, or flue, of adequate proportions
and favorable conditions as regards SIR.
rounding objects.
In these days of high coal costs every
one Is anxious to extract every unit of
heat from every pound of coal possible
and utilize it where desired or needed
| most
Almost invariably when the heating
man is called in and asks about the Chin
ney, the house or building owner saws
my chimney has beautiful draft"
In many cases this is true, while at the
same time his chimney might efficiently
operate small heater which would heat
part of the house this same chimney
would not efficiently operate larger one
of sufficient capacity to heat the whole
house or building.
In other words, chimney four inches
square and ten feet high would have a
| good draft, but not sufficient to operate
even your parlor stove, Tor forty horse
power steam boiler.
Casting no reflections upon the knowl-
edge and integrity of those who design
and build chlmneys, too often little ap-
parent thought is given to what may be
required of chimneys and flues.
AS to the average brick mason it is
easy to comprehend not an extensive
amount of book learning is necessary to
lay up brick. A plumb eye perhaps is one
of the greatest requirements.
Probably the first and most important
qualification of an architect is an abund-
ance of imagination or conception of a
building which will look good and please,
but is it fair to expect too much of one
man, especially in tt ese days of speciali-
cation, and expect an architect to be
highly experienced or versed in all
branches of building construction?
Would not an architects office be more
efficient if composed of several men skill
ed in the various branches of building
construction. Good architects today are
giving the chimney question careful
study, SO be sure your architect is cor
rect on this point, when building.
If your proposition does not require the
services of an architect be sure and con-
suit competent heating engineer. You
will save many dollars, land lots of cuss
Words) even II you have to pay Tor ser
vice rendered
Millions of dollars have been wasted in
fuel, discarded stoves, and heating ap-
paratuses, as we'll as much labor attend
ing fires and other endeavors to make
things 60 right
Good square straight flues, one for each
piece of apparatus, so far as possible, do
not collect SCOT, catch fire nor burn out,
thereby endangering buildings
The beautiful results and operation of
a good chimney are an everlasting Joy
and comfort to the house and building
owner and will easily save the cost of
construction over bad ones in very few
years.