Attached is a picture of a chimney I sometimes pass that does not appear to have any counter-flashing (or any flashing at all for that matter). The stone starts at the asphalt shingles. Is it possible this is flashed by cutting a grove into the stone where it meets the roof? This doesn’t sound like a good approach but maybe I’m missing something. The picture was taken with a camera phone so it’s a little hard to see but hopefully it is clear enough.
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It's probably a plywood chimney with flashing under some fake rock.
I'd agree. That appears (close as one can tell from the picture) to be a steel stove pipe sticking out the top, not a simple chimney cap, so the "stone chimney" is likely a sham.
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The position of the chimney reenforces that. A true chimney in a house less than 75 years old (built for central heating) would almost certainly be on an outside wall, not in the center area like that. (And in an older house it would be perfectly centered, or there would be several of them.)
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That all makes sense. Mystery solved.
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I'll agree that it is a faux job, but because of the metal cap and sizing - not for the reasons you give. I've seen oodles of chimneys like that in all sorts of positions in old homes.
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I suppose it depends on location, but generally a pre-furnace chimney will be located so that several rooms can feed into it. Unless there's something odd about the interior floorplan, there will be one or two chimneys, located symmetrically, close to the ridge. Larger homes (bigger than the one pictured) might have 3 or 4.This isn't for reasons of elegance so much as practicality -- you want the chimney centrally located so that it can serve as many rooms as possible.In later central heating homes the chimney would generally be placed along the outside of the home, so that it takes less room and so that it can make use of the home foundation.
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There is some truth to that latter, but it still varies with region or climate. A cold climate makes it much more sensible to continue the use of interior chimneys
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