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3 Chimneys Smoke Smell

  • 02-05-2014 9:53pm
    #1
    engrish?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I live in a 1950s 2 up 2 down end of terrace with 3 chimneys. Theres a fireplace in the sitting room, the kitchen and the master bedroom. Today I dug out the fireplace in the master bedroom and later that night I lit the fire downstairs in the sitting room. When we went to bed there was a smell of coal burning in the main bedroom. Its not a major smell, just slight. We have a carbon monoxide meter which is not going off so I think its just the smell coming back down.

    All we want from the fire in the bedroom is to be able to light some candles in it. Can I block up the chimney in the bedroom and if so, can you suggest how?

    Thanks?


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


    engrish? wrote: »
    Hi,

    I live in a 1950s 2 up 2 down end of terrace with 3 chimneys. Theres a fireplace in the sitting room, the kitchen and the master bedroom. Today I dug out the fireplace in the master bedroom and later that night I lit the fire downstairs in the sitting room. When we went to bed there was a smell of coal burning in the main bedroom. Its not a major smell, just slight. We have a carbon monoxide meter which is not going off so I think its just the smell coming back down.

    All we want from the fire in the bedroom is to be able to light some candles in it. Can I block up the chimney in the bedroom and if so, can you suggest how?

    Thanks?

    When you say you "dug out" the fireplace in the master bedroom, what do you mean?

    There should be three independent flues, with no leakage from the one to the other (if they are in sound condition). It is unlikely that you'd get smoke exiting from the top of one flue coming down another flue since there'd be an updraft from all open flues tending to move air from inside house to outside (hotter air inside rising up the flue to outside so no way for smoke to work downhill back into the house from another flue)

    If you've an issue with a broken flue or some kind of blockage then you'd best get it checked out. You're talking a powersweep to clear built-up hard crud - and there can be a surprising amount of it, even if you've had the chimney swept of soot. Then a cctv check (which is pointless doing if the chimney is clogged up with debris). Hairline cracks I wouldn't worry about. Chunks of flue missing / misaligned flue sections is another story..


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