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Default Fitting a chimney box / soot door thingy

On 21/05/2012 00:17, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:09:10 +0100, Lobster wrote:

The house is celebrating its 100th birthday this year as it happens.

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The fire certainly smokes quite badly now,


Have the windows/doors been changed windows to units with decent
seals? If so the air supply for the fire/chimney has effectively been
cut off unless some additional ventilation into that room has been
provided.


In fact several of the glass panes in the doors have fallen out and need
replacing (on the cards while the room is being refurbed) so no, it's
definitely not sealed. (It does have ventilation from below the doors,
which presumably suffices in normal operation?)

... and I think it's got worse with time, which would tie in with a flue
being clogged by un-sweepable soot.


Well I guess it depends on how much of dog leg you have. Not a
chimney expert but very few chimneys are straight up, most have dog
leg in them if only so the flue passes up the side of the fireplace
directly above them in upstairs room(s).

I wouldn't expect a flue to be built at that time that wasn't
sweepable or with a dog leg that would clog. Of course it might be
constructed so that you'd clear the dog leg from an open fire place
rather than having a stove fitted.


Probably right - presumably it's been swept adequately in the past,
during the century it's been there

Which sort of raises the question
of why the chimney didn't have a liner installed when the stove was
fitted.


Pass. But whatever, presumably the sootbox thing as recommended by the
sweep, is the simplest way forward now.

David