No one wanted to get near this ornate center city Philadelphia chimney that was very high and leaning toward the slate roof. We had to set up elaborate scaffold, number and dismantle the terra cotta chimney and re-lay it up plumb after correcting the problem. The problem was that the original flues where used as part of the structural element to hold the chimney up. The disintegration of the terra cotta flue from 100 years of creosote was eating away at the inner tiles which made the chimney start to tip.

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