Chimney fire

[easy-lift guy]

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!

 

The moral of your story is, get your chimney lined and burn only hard wood:thumbup1:

easy-lift guy

[headgroundsman]

Has anyone thought of fitting a water pipe to the chimney so in the event of a fire you just turn on a tap?. Just a thought I had years ago when a fire got going near the pot and was drawing air down from the top.

[Reddog]

I use the heat clean method a few times a year.

Been doing it that way since a kid.

[Dave Martin]

I use the heat clean method a few times a year.

Been doing it that way since a kid.

 

Whats that?

[Dean Lofthouse]

micks garden mister is the best idea, the up draught should pull it up the chimney which should turn to vapour and damp down the fire gradually without causing a mess and cracking the bricks by cooling them too quickly, I would use my cooper pegler backpack sprayer

[Mick Stockbridge]

Whats that?

 

Letting your chimney catch alight would be my first guess.

 

Not a practice I'd recommend.

[Reddog]

Whats that?

 

Letting your chimney catch alight would be my first guess.

 

Not a practice I'd recommend.

 

Controlled chimney fire.

 

Definitely doesn't work on all chimney types.

[nepia]

The moral of your story is, get your chimney lined and burn only hard wood:thumbup1:

easy-lift guy

 

I can see the logic of the first one there ELG but I burn only softwood and have no problems. Next to no soot from it and the hardwood gets sold, not burnt.

[penfold]

I don't really know what the moral of this story is!

 

Don't let pongoes put a fire out:001_tongue:

[Justme]

At our last house we used to get the occasional flue fire (lined & insulated). Found out in the end that is was mainly a small air leak in the vitreous to flue closing plate that was causing an after burner effect. Any way the reason for the post is that I used to use the gas cylinder from my MIG welder to put it out a its an inert gas (Argon & co2 mix). Worked just like a co2 extinguisher.