My partner is a super handy guy, and when it came time to remove the woodstove in our apartment he did it all himself, he removed the stone pad plus patched up our flooring.
He got rid of the pipe plus patched the ceiling, but the only thing he didn’t do was remove the stack on the roof that made the furnace functional.
The people I was with and I figured the stack wasn’t hurting anything being there. Well it not only looked ugly plus served no purpose, but it started to leak, however 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 plus then during a rainstorm. Then it turned into us needing a bin to put under the spot. My partner climbed up on our roof numerous times attempting to repair the issue. He used basically brick to patch everything. He tried caulk. He tried tar! Nope, nothing fixed our issue. The people I was with and I realized that the stack needed to be removed to access where the destruction was. That meant hiring out professional roofers, but finding a local roofing company wasn’t hard plus it wasn’t extravagant either. The residential roofing business was superb to work with. They gave us an upfront cost plus didn’t change it after the job was done. They removed the stack plus patched that leak within a day. My partner plus I haven’t had a leak in the ceiling since. It is actually nice no longer needing a bin in the home office on the off option the rain is coming in.