Old Chimney

Early Utah construction materials often included local bricks, made of native clay and dried in the sun. I'm not sure that our original chimney was quite that earthy, but after many decades in the southern Utah weather, it had become more like a pile of dry mud than a chimney. We hired Buddy to fix it for us . . . and he tried. But, in the interest of safety and functionality, we eventually authorized him to use modern bricks for a rebuild. The old chimney is now on the ground where it, hopefully, can't hurt anything.