Welcome to Bill On Fire, an informative online video series by Chimney Company owner Bill Bassels. The Bill On Fire series includes videos of the services that we provide, problems that occur, and interesting aspects of the job that we encounter. It is designed to be informative, not instructional, showing you areas of the industry that you would normally not be able to see.
Please remember, work shown here is performed by supervised, licensed, and certified professionals. DO NOT attempt anything you see here yourself. So sit back, enjoy, and thanks for watching Bill On Fire.
Bill explains the effects a pointed chimney has on bricks and mortar and why it should be avoided.
Watch Bill and his team as they install a rigid steel chimney liner into this rebuild.
See how a stainless steel liner is sealed to the chimney crown and attached to the smoke chamber.
In this episode Bill parges the inside of a smoke chamber to fill in the voids.
Installing precast concrete caps.
Here we explain why this chimney requires a complete rebuild from the roofline up.
Bill describes what chimney flashing is and illustrates a poor eavestrough design.
This video shows a brick chimney that was parged and explains why it should be avoided.
This episode shows clearly why a brick chimney should not be corbelled.
See why metal liners on top of clay flues must be properly flashed.