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My old boss told me to never trust a clean looking flue liner without a camera check
He said that back in '09 when I was new, and I brushed it off as him being too careful. Then last month in a Portland colonial, a liner that looked perfect from the top had a hidden vertical crack you could only see with the scope. I mean, that could've been a real fire risk. How many of you actually camera every single job, or just the ones that look bad?
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olivia_lewis1mo ago
Yeah, that's a solid rule. Reminds me of a water heater swap last fall. Place looked totally fine from the outside, no rust, nothing. Pulled the old one and the whole pan underneath was just gone, completely rotted out from a slow leak. You couldn't see it until it was moved. Now I check the pan on every single one, no matter how new it looks. Just not worth the callback.
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nancy_garcia631mo ago
Ugh, that's the worst kind of surprise. Good call on checking every time now.
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