Brick Hearth

[Denise]

I have removed the brick hearth that our wood stove was on but now have to plug the hole the stove pipe went through. What is the best way to do this when the chimney will still be used from another wood stove on the floor below? The only access to work from is the actual hole from the stove pipe. Should I just use brick and cement to fill in the hole? And how smooth does the inside have to be because of creosote build up? Thanks for any help.

Denise

[HayZee518]

if this chimney shares the flue with some other device then it really don't matter on the smoothness as any creosote will form above the outlet. maybe some will fall back down but it'll be below the heat so it won't ignite. shove anything non flamable up inside the chimney and cement it shut. most modern chimneys have a separate flue for each device, i.e. hearth, woodstove, coal stove, oil burner etc.