Chimney fire

[Peter]

Yup, once I get my brush up a chimney it gets a proper rodding and theres always lots of mess to clean up afterwards.

[ballibeg]

The issue will be the flue into 3 foot wide chimney. The gasses will condense in the chimney as too large to heat. Lined I doubt there would be more than a cup full of soot on 20% wood. Unlined the laws of physics take over.

 

Dave

[Mick Stockbridge]

Get it lined Dean. I was told that the resin can soak into brickwork and if it catches alight it can take day's to go out and cause's structural damage.

 

Glad you managed to put it out....

[gensetsteve]

I can tell we have had the occasional fire from the scorched curled crispy tar around the top of the pot. As Dean says if the stove is fitted right you can strangle the oxygen. A good reason not to have a stove dumped in the hearth with 3ft of liner sticking up an unlined chimney.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Yes it's spurred me into action Mick, I,ll not put it off this year, silly thing is its an easy job for me with the mewp.

 

Ted I burn 50/50 hardwood softwood, but as bail beg said, it's the big wide old stone flue that isn,t getting warm enough to stop condensation occurring

. My fire burns 24/7 so you'd think the chimney flue would stay really warm, the problem is these smokeless efficient stoves extract most of the heat into the room and very little escapes up the chimney, so the chimney doesn't get warm enough

[Fisherman]

Hello Dean, we had a chimney fire about 15 yrs ago and like you we closed down the fire and controlled the burn until it went out. Two days later half the house burnt down. It's a very old house and a floor joist too near the chimney had started to smolder and two days later it found oxygen and up went the house. Four months before the house was habitable again and that chimney is now lined. Thankfully no one was hurt but it was one hell of a scare.

[Peter]

My next door neighbour had a chimney fire and called the fire brigade out, thought there would be water everywhere but they just misted it from the top down until it was out, no flooding or water damage.

[Mick Stockbridge]

My next door neighbour had a chimney fire and called the fire brigade out, thought there would be water everywhere but they just misted it from the top down until it was out, no flooding or water damage.

 

That's what they wanted to do when I called em out once. I already had it out though by spraying water from an indoor plant sprayer up the flue.

[monkeybusiness]

A friend of mine had a chimney fire when the firefighters were on strike complaining about their almost perfect hugely oversubscribed jobs. The army attended in a green goddess and were apparently not allowed to access the top of the chimney due to health and safety reasons. They wanted to smash a hole through the chimney breast in an upstairs bedroom to access the fire but my friend refused to allow them, so they put some sort of bung in the bottom of the flue and pumped water up the chimney. Once the fire was out they released the bung and flooded the downstairs of his house with sooty water. I don't really know what the moral of this story is!

[NI Tree]

we had a chimney fire in an open fire place with a 12" clay liner, and the flue is about 11m long and not the longest, and had the fire brigade out and they would even go out on to the roof due to H&S dose not allow them but they been on it before now to do a fire inspection and you can not fall of as you are in a valley and the chimney was in middle of it, so dad and went up damped it down with buckets of water,