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sparkwell · **Posted: 30-11-2009 , 01:19 PM** #8

Hi Mickey

Some great advice there from Fries and Portsbruff. I'd just like to add one little bit of advice based on experience. In a previous home we had a solid fuel cooker which was built into a large chimney and the previous owner has piped so far up the chimney and closed off the rest of the chimney with a piece of steel and a hole to allow the flue pipe through. This was fixed in place so when cleaning the chimney you could disconnect the flue but not take the steel out. Anyway to cut a very long story short we had a horrendous chimney fire because soot had fallen down the chimney and got lodged on the steel and all of this soot caught fire one night - Christmas Eve! We had to get the fire brigade and they managed to get it under control but the house was destoyed with water and soot!!

So my advice is if you are going to close off the chimney with the flue pipe going through the steel make sure that you can take the steel out easily for cleaning (when completely cold of course as it will fly everywhere!)

Hope you get sorted soon

Sparkwell

	Posted: 30-11-2009 , 01:19 PM #8
sparkwell Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Portarlington, Co. Laois Posts: 713	Chimney problem Hi Mickey Some great advice there from Fries and Portsbruff. I'd just like to add one little bit of advice based on experience. In a previous home we had a solid fuel cooker which was built into a large chimney and the previous owner has piped so far up the chimney and closed off the rest of the chimney with a piece of steel and a hole to allow the flue pipe through. This was fixed in place so when cleaning the chimney you could disconnect the flue but not take the steel out. Anyway to cut a very long story short we had a horrendous chimney fire because soot had fallen down the chimney and got lodged on the steel and all of this soot caught fire one night - Christmas Eve! We had to get the fire brigade and they managed to get it under control but the house was destoyed with water and soot!! So my advice is if you are going to close off the chimney with the flue pipe going through the steel make sure that you can take the steel out easily for cleaning (when completely cold of course as it will fly everywhere!) Hope you get sorted soon Sparkwell