The chimney man cometh

Today, after many delays, the chimney company came to take a look.

The gas fireplace's intake and output pipes are made of plastic dryer vent. At the top of the chimney, they are wired together into a plastic cutting board. When the wind blows, the input and output pipes bow toward each other, so that the output gets sucked back into the input. Very fortunately for us, this shut down the fireplace rather than gassing us to death.

We will be getting "a quote". Words of doom.