well the inspector confirmed what I pretty much already knew anyway. My chimney is not safe. My house is pre 1900 so I was sure I would not get any good news. I wanted to take out the oil furnace and put in a wood furnace for next season, but now with the additional cost of installing liner ect. Im not sure what I am going to do. Inspector says the chimney needs to be torn down to roof ridge also and I also pretty much knew that was coming also. missing and broken bricks ect. anyway if I tear down the chimney and let him install the rest, he says im looking at approx. $1600. geez.... toss in another $1500 or so for the wood furnace and I am thinking twice about messing with any of it. I am a diy'er tho so maybe I will install the liner myself over the summer. Looks like about $800 in parts from what I am looking at on the internet. Im guessing it cant be to difficult to send the liner down the chimney. also if I take the old oil furnace and about half of the duct work to the scrap yard then do the labor myself that would cut the cost significantly. Now I have some thinking and decision making to do. Maybe I will just stick with the pellet stoves and put my money into insulating the crap out of this old house. hmmm.....