Any chimney consists of a base, the walls of the pipe, the smoke channel and the capitals of the pipe. When designing and installing chimney included the following parameters: cross-sectional area of flue channel, which governed by the requirements of fire, wall thickness and the effective height of the chimney, the quality of insulation and sealing. In all areas of chimney must be strictly vertical, with smooth the inner walls of the chimney. By the principle of the device, as well as binding to the building chimneys are divided into indigenous and Shaft-mounted, built-in and hanging, wall and freestanding. Aboriginal chimney placed on specially built for her own massive base.

The basis for the Shaft-mounted chimney serves a traditional stove or fireplace. Wall chimneys are placed in the inner main walls of brick buildings under construction, and installation of freestanding pipe is already finished in the house. Types of chimney efficiency, safety and reliability of the entire heating system depends on the proper selection chimney and observance of all rules and requirements for its installation. Installation of the chimney, regardless of its purpose, should be carried out by experienced, qualified professionals. Correct, competent chimney installation will provide not only the high efficiency of the heating devices and fire safety. Depending on the material from which the chimneys are made, we can distinguish the brick, steel, ceramic, glass and even plastic. Brick furnace chimney usually is the final element of the furnace or fireplace stove. His erect specialists potters from corpulent ceramic bricks during construction of the house.