On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:25:07 GMT, T i m wrote:

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:09:50 +0100, Andy Hall
wrote:

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:53:11 GMT, T i m wrote:

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:32:26 +0100, Andy Hall
wrote:

The main issue would be provisioning a gas supply to the
loft.

Again, as you say, could probably brought up from below .. maybe via
the (to be) unused chimney (assuming he also does away with the fire
front that is)? And as he recently went round after the CORGI man
fixing the gas leaks from the unfinished joints ..... ;-(

I'm not sure that the pipe could be run inside the chimney, but
perhaps it could follow the route of the pipes to the cylinder and
thence to the loft?

Why not Andy? I mean if the chimney is not to be used again then
doesn't it just become a 'riser' ?

How would one get the pipe in there? It can't be plastic,
remenber...




And I assume could also be vented through the roof tiles via a
suitable tile and terminal?

Yes, or even a suitable ridge tile.

Ah yes .. and one of his 'pet hate' areas.

By that I mean in inapproriate (?) use of over-large ridge tiles when
houses are being re-roofed?

I was actually looking at that on my Mums house the other day compared
with those of next door (both sides). Her's were a nice low profile
ridges and shoulders / hips (or whatever the bits at the end of a semi
roof would be called) .. the ridge tiles may have been tall but the
others were lower so all looked in 'scale' (whereas next door looked
more like a large clay pipe filled with cement and the sides and top
were 'bodged' at the join to make them fit) ;-(

Would there have been a reason for this (ie, you can't get the low
profiles any more) or another common example of the 'can't be
bothered, they will never notice, no pride' attitude demonstrated by
many of the trades today?

Can't say I've thought about it. A few years ago when our Aga was
installed, we elected to have a conventional flue model because it was
the most convenient for the installation position. The flue runs
directly to the loft, then at an angle following the roof slope and
finally to a ridge tile terminal. The profile follows the existing
tiles and it isn't noticable from the ground.





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..andy

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