charmstone
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What is the name of your state?Pennsylvania. My sister and I hired a contractor a year ago to install a wood burning stove in our home. We got the permits that were needed and the code inspector came out and inspected it, not once but twice. I then received the certificate letter of approval. However, yesterday the inspector came to my door telling me that I have to rip out the stove that we just paid thousands of dollars to install because we were blocking our neighbor's heat through the chimney with our liner. The chimney is on my roof. The inspector tells us this has to happen in the next few days because it going to get cold. That wood burning stove is the only heat my sister and I have so if we rip it out of our chimney our neighbors will be warm but my sister and I will freeze. The inspector didn't seem to care. So I told him that the chimney is on my roof not theirs. He said that they have been sharing it for 50 years.I got a hold of my contractor who installed the stove and he said he has nothing to do with it because it was inspected and approved so it was now up to the neighbor to installing their own chimney or up to the inspector. The inspector who is telling us all of this is the same one who inspected it and now they are saying I am in violation. I don't know how I am in violation when I thought I did very thing right. I didn't know I shared the chimney with the neighbor. I don't understand why the inspector didn't see this when the contractor was installing it. I am so lost and confused. My sister and I are disabled and on a fixed income the wood burning stove was and is our only heat Sources.That was all the money we had. We don't have any money to have it remove or for any other heat Sources. Please Help