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Partially Blocked Flue? Please Comment On Pic...
I'm appealing for some help from anyone who has had experience with flue's
going from a fire (in living room) up through into attic, and then eventually through the roof. I have just had a fire fitted and the 'smoke test' worked fine but after the install the flue is not 'pulling' or sucking up enough and so the install is not complete. My fitter has tried fitting a flue extension kit with unfortunately the same results. The fitter concede I must have a blocked flue and recommended an electric fire or an electric power-flue directly behind the fire in living room (which is noisy incidentally). I wasn't taking his opinion lightly and took my digital camera into the attic and took a shot down the flue and the picture I got is posted he http://tinyurl.com/ttmp Now my query is that I do not know what to expect when looking down the flue but it does appear that I have approx a third of what seems to be hollow breeze block half way down the flue. Is this what I should expect to see or is this perhaps causing my problem? Is this the way my flue was supposed to be installed when the house was built or is it just a shoddy job? The angle I have taken it at seems as if the block is hollow and my initial thoughts are to hire some rods and try and break this off... however your comments are very much valued before taking this a step further. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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