"Mad_Trev" wrote in message
oups.com...
http://www.chaffoteaux.co.uk/pdf/min..._and_serve.pdf has
diagrams of the current range, which on p20 seems to suggest that the
pipe be fitted flush with the exterior wall anyway. On our installation
prior to the chop, they had it poking 50cm out of the wall with a
little sombrero hung on the end
I think you may have answered your own question here. I have no
idea why it would stick 50cm out from the wall, if a normal coaxial
flue, and though I haven't looked at the pdf file, I suspect it will show
a streamlined looking cowl poking no more than 10cm out of the wall, if
that.
It may be possible to mount it completely flush with the wall, especially if
you
flare the opening in the masonry slightly. You need to examine the regs for
the positioning of flues, there may well be one in the pdf files on the
chaffoteaux
website.
I agree with the other posters, what the council has done is verging
on
criminal damage, and if they have crimped the end of the flue together when
they
cut it, they are endangering life and limb. Still, that's why we have the
term
'Spanish Practices', eh?!
Let us know what happens,

Andy.