Chimney - minimum height above ground?

dowtchaboy

Folks - does anyone know if there is a minimum height for a chimney of a wood or coal burning stove above GROUND, not just above roof?

My neighbour has a single story flat roofed house. House originally was just a summer place and had electric heating. Now it's used year round. Last year they installed a chimney for presumably a wood or coal burning stove (there were no open fires or stoves in the original house) on the FRONT of the house. Houses each side are bungalows or dormer bungalows, with higher apex roofs.

It's a stainless steel tube with a flat kind of cake tin on top. The top of the chimney is about 60 or so centimeters above the level of the flat roof and about 20 cm out from the front wall. The top of the chimney is about 3 metres above the ground, the same level as the top of my camper van parked nearby. If I stood on a chair I could probably touch the top of it. It's about 3 metres from our boundary wall.

They burn some solid fuel, it's definitely not kerosene. Its quite smokey, very very smelly, like old carpet or maybe wet wood. Our house is starting to stink of it and I have to hold my breath when out front. The smoke never seems to go upwards - it always drifts sideways or down.

These people are renting so my beef is with the landlord but she's hard to catch.

Any ideas? I'd like to have my facts straight before I tackle her. It's a small community and you have to tread carefully.

sydthebeat

if the distance is less than 2.3 m then the flue must be 600mm above your ridge line.

dowtchaboy

sydthebeat wrote: »

if the distance is less than 2.3 m then the flue must be 600mm above your ridge line.

It would be further than 2.3 metres from my roof, if that's what you mean.