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Chimney Baloon

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  • #2
    homer911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,139 ✭✭✭homer911


    I hope so, I ordered on 31/12 from purchase.ie for the same size.

    Easiest way to check is to shine a torch up your chimney - the flue should be about 8 inches

    My house was built in 1995 and flues should be standard for all houses after about 1970 due to building regs..


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well lets hope we got the right ones :)


  • #4
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Don't forget to fit a cowl/hat now up top as with the balloon fitted the chimney will fill with water.


  • #5
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Don't forget to fit a cowl/hat now up top as with the balloon fitted the chimney will fill with water.

    There is zero chance of any balloon achieving a watertight seal.

    -

    Beware of chimney balloons which (in my own experience) can get sucked up the chimney by the same effect which pulls smoke from your fire. A sucked-up chimney balloon means a trip from the sweep to ascertain that its been sucked right out and hasn't lodged part way up.

    The best solution (and far easier to insert than a chimney balloon) is a soft childs football which is a bit (say an inch) larger in diameter than the hole to the entrance of your flue. The soft material / slightly larger diameter means a snug fit of the ball - without danger of it being sucked up the chimney.

    And cheaper and more robust too.


  • #6
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    There is zero chance of any balloon achieving a watertight seal.
    I was referring to a cowl to be fitted as the natural draught of the chimney would be blocked off thus the open chimney would be like a bucket out in the rain.


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