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Famco Flue Liner Replacement: The Hicksville Owner’s Guide

A Famco flue liner replacement in Hicksville typically runs $1,800-$3,400 installed, depending on diameter, height, and whether the existing liner pulls out clean or has to be cut out in pieces. We stock Famco-compatible stainless steel liners in 6″, 7″, and 8″ diameters on our trucks, and most Hicksville replacements are completed in a single day. Homeowners usually discover the problem during a Level-2 inspection, after a chimney fire, or when they notice water staining or flaking tile in the firebox - signs that the original clay liner has cracked or the metal liner has corroded through at the seam.

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Which Famco Models This Applies To

Famco manufactured several liner series over the decades, and the replacement strategy depends on which generation is in your Hicksville chimney. The Famco 316Ti flexible liners, common in installations from the late 1990s through the mid-2000s, carry a part number stamped on the top termination collar - usually a format like FL-316-XX where XX denotes diameter. The older Famco 304 stainless rigid sections, more common in pre-1990 Hicksville builds near the Broadway Mall corridor, have a die-stamped Famco logo on the female end of each section with a gauge marking (typically .012″ or .016″).

We do not need the original receipt. What we need is the inner diameter of the flue, the total linear feet from smoke chamber to top, and whether the chimney is straight or has offsets. The 316Ti series is still produced under updated specs by the current Famco brand owner; for the discontinued 304 rigid, we source equivalent 316Ti flexible from our DuraFlex and Olympia Chimney inventory that matches or exceeds the original duty rating. Aftermarket is often the smarter play for Hicksville’s freeze-thaw cycling - the newer alloys handle salt air off the South Shore better than the original 304 ever did.

Hearthstone Chimney Co. is an independent service provider with no affiliation to Famco. We source parts that fit and outlast, period.

Signs Your Famco Flue Liner Replacement Is Failing

• White efflorescence or powder on the firebox walls. This is flue gas condensation leaking through cracks in the liner, carrying soluble salts with it. In Hicksville’s older Cape Cods with exterior chimneys, we see this every February after a cold snap forces the flue to breathe unevenly.
• Spalling brick or deteriorated mortar at the chimney shoulder. When the liner fails, moisture and acidic condensate reach the brickwork. The freeze-thaw in Nassau County finishes what the acid started - we’ve replaced shoulders in Levittown sections that were sound five years prior.
• Smoke or odor in upstairs rooms when the fireplace is not in use. A breached liner allows negative pressure in the house to pull chimney air through gaps. This is not a draft problem; it is a containment failure, and it can carry carbon monoxide with it.
• Visible cracks or missing sections in a clay tile liner, seen from below with a flashlight. Clay tile liners were never meant to last forever, and Hicksville’s 1950s-1970s stock often has tiles that have shifted or cracked from thermal shock after decades of use.
• A chimney fire, even a small one. The rapid temperature spike warps stainless liners and cracks clay. We have pulled Famco 316Ti liners out of Hicksville chimneys that looked fine from the bottom but had a basketball-sized bulge at the first offset - invisible without a camera.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

The chimney doesn’t care what you hoped it was - it shows you what it is. Our pricing starts with what we can see, and what we can see comes from the camera.

What moves the number: chimney height beyond 25 feet, multiple offsets that require specialized pulling equipment, and whether the existing liner is welded in place or can be extracted intact. We agree on the full price before we book the job - no surprises on the bill. Every Famco-compatible replacement carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not right, we come back. No paperwork, no arguing.

DIY or Call Us?

There is a short list of things a Hicksville homeowner can safely check: shine a flashlight up the flue from the firebox and look for daylight through cracks, or run a gloved hand along the damper frame to feel for creosote buildup or rough tile edges. What you cannot safely do is climb the roof, drop a liner, or work inside the smoke chamber.

Flue liner replacement involves working at height with heavy, flexible stainless steel that can kink or bind in an offset, and it requires proper insulation packing to maintain UL listing. More critically, an improperly seated liner creates a gap between flue gas and framing - a carbon monoxide pathway that a homeowner has no way to test for. We have been called to Hicksville homes where a handyman’s “simple” liner drop left a three-inch void at the first elbow. The fireplace worked. The family was lucky.

Call (516) 259-3797. We will walk you through what we see on the camera, tell you whether the work can wait a season, and give you a number that does not change.

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