My husband is a super handy guy. When it came time to remove the woodstove in our house he did it all himself. He removed the brick pad and patched up our flooring. He got rid of the pipe and patched the ceiling. The only thing he didn’t do was remove the stack on the roof that made the heater functional. We figured the stack wasn’t hurting anything being there. Well it not only looked ugly and served no purpose, but it started to leak. Our roof had never leaked before until the wood stove was gone. Then right where the pipe was vented water started coming through. It started as a few drops every now and then during a rainstorm. Then it turned into us needing a bucket to put under the spot. My husband climbed up on our roof multiple times attempting to fix the issue. He used basically cement to patch everything. He tried caulk. He tried tar. Nope, nothing fixed our issue. We realized that the stack needed to be removed to access where the damage was. That meant hiring out professional roofers. Finding a local roofing company wasn’t difficult and it wasn’t expensive either. The residential roofing business was great to work with. They gave us an upfront cost and didn’t change it after the job was done. They removed the stack and patched that leak within a day. My husband and I haven’t had a leak in the ceiling since. It is really nice no longer needing a bucket in the living room on the off chance the rain is coming in.