Re: OT-Clear coat rocks?

Eric R Snow wrote:
I'm going to be putting stone inside the house around the wood burning
fireplace insert. The stones are all ones that my wife and I, mostly
my wife, have collected here on Whidbey Island.

Whatever you do, DON'T use the stones where the chimney penetrates through the roof. Some IMBECILE built the entire chimney facing of our house, from the basement all the way to
the top of the flues, out of some kind of limestone and fossilized coral stuff. What was he (not) thinking??!!??
The old coral is as porous as a sponge, and the rest of the stuff chips and weathers a lot, constantly leaving gaps where water can get in. When the roof needs to be replaced (soon), I'm seriously thinking of having a bunch of it chipped out and
something, ANYTHING, put in in the area where it meets the roof.
Probably need to replace the whole facing above the roof with something that weathers well and is non-porous.

Sorry about the rant, just wanted to warn you of this possible debacle. But, I'm sure any rational homeowner would know better.

Jon
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