Opening up caped chimneys

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Ok ..
I went up on the roof today and opened up a chimney assuming it was to my downstairs fire place as it was at the front of house above that fire down stairs ..
There where 2 pots ..
So I picked the front one …

I was wrong ! 😑

House full of smoke from smoke pellets
But at least now I know which chimney pot ! Ha ha 🤣.

Tomorow a another day ..
 
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You should have shouted down it to someone in the lounge perhaps ….easy mistake….
Just be aware the ashes from smokeless ovoids which have replaced coal , stay very hot for over 24 hrs often , so need to go in a metal bucket outside for a day or two .
If not the next mistake you will make is melting your plastic wheelie bin !
There’s nothing beats an open fire , it’s just a bit of a chore cleaning and lighting daily.

On balance you put less paper and card into recycle or landfill too, even burn smelly chicken or meat bones !!! Etc .
 
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69er said:
You should have shouted down it to someone in the lounge perhaps ….easy mistake….
Just be aware the ashes from smokeless ovoids which have replaced coal , stay very hot for over 24 hrs often , so need to go in a metal bucket outside for a day or two .
If not the next mistake you will make is melting your plastic wheelie bin !
There’s nothing beats an open fire , it’s just a bit of a chore cleaning and lighting daily.

On balance you put less paper and card into recycle or landfill too, even burn smelly chicken or meat bones !!! Etc .
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Thank ya yes old bones the lot ..


So went up to day
Swapped the cowel onto the other chimney pot and ……. No dice !

This is mad.. I must something up the chimneys ..

And it will now turn out it was on the right pot ..
Because it’s the front pot and fire place or at the front ..

I have fore place also on bed room but I’m sure they both share the same flue
 
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69er said:
You should have shouted down it to someone in the lounge perhaps ….easy mistake….
Just be aware the ashes from smokeless ovoids which have replaced coal , stay very hot for over 24 hrs often , so need to go in a metal bucket outside for a day or two .
If not the next mistake you will make is melting your plastic wheelie bin !
There’s nothing beats an open fire , it’s just a bit of a chore cleaning and lighting daily.

On balance you put less paper and card into recycle or landfill too, even burn smelly chicken or meat bones !!! Etc .
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And we need more Carbon not less :LOL:

Enjoy lighting mine, It was open Baxi one which I'm glad I kept as is, my gran had electric fire in front of it when she lived here, I did use it years back as open fire but it was all rusted, the flap for underfloor air intake was rusted up and the bucket for ashes which dropped down below floor level fell apart so I decided Log Burner was good option, ripped out the control flap, cleaned it all out and fitted Log Burner which cost me about £100 after cleaning, repainting and a few bits replaced

I have pile of paper to start it with, everything with name address goes in there oh and the letters from BBC Teletax, Good to have backup in case you have power cut too
 
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Retroman839 said:
Thank ya yes old bones the lot ..


So went up to day
Swapped the cowel onto the other chimney pot and ……. No dice !

This is mad.. I must something up the chimneys ..

And it will now turn out it was on the right pot ..
Because it’s the front pot and fire place or at the front ..

I have fore place also on bed room but I’m sure they both share the same flue
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My gran had covers on the top of pots with holes around edge, my dad said its fine to light fire with them on, my gran was scared of birds coming down chimney, after removed I did get poor little birdy down one day, luckily other half was here and managed to catch and release outside again, she had budgies when younger.

I took my dads advice and lit a fire and the room filled with smoke :LOL: yeah okay I think we'll get them removed so when I had guy sorting new TV Aerial out I got him to kindly remove them for me :)
 
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Yep be careful, my landlady never capped our chimneys, we haven't used them and they are just sealed at the bottom with boards. I say be careful because every now and then we hear rubble tumbling down and assume it's bits of brick and mortar so yours may be jammed this way. I'd say get a proper sweep in to have a look at it, they may say it's good to go after a sweep but will know if it's safe i.e. no back boiler system still there lol
 
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Get a chimney sweep in mate.
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Haha…. He came he saw and he left .

He said your chimneys are capped mate .. so I went up un capped em .
Put a cowel up .
Might as well just unblock it now my self ..

I have just nee
Up and swapped the cowel back to original Chimmeny ! 😁😅🤷..

I hope to report back soon with good news….

Funny as gales last night .
Wind was howling down all th wrong chimneys 🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
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A bloody huge rat managed to get into my living room via the chimney for a gas burning fire the other month . No idea how it managed to get onto the roof and down the flue. Unless someone didn't bother to add a flue liner :oops: I should check.

You're lucky all the bricks didn't fall away, if it's an old chimney.
 
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