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Badly fitted pipe above stove

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  • 14-05-2021 10:09am
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    MrBumBum
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭


    Will do my best to explain this clearly.
    Had my chimney swept and wanted the guy doing it to pack some fire cement around the pipe leading from the stove to the chimney. He said he couldn't do it as the pipe is fitted incorrectly and it could leave him liable if something went wrong.
    Basically there is a gap where soot can fall from the chimney onto the top of the stove. The cement that was there when we bought the house has gradually fallen out the last couple of years and soot keeps falling down.
    He said his solution would be to take all the piping out and refit it properly, or if I wanted to I could pack it with rockwool and fire cement myself.
    I've had a lot of annoying once off large expenses lately and would favour the cheaper option if it was safe.
    Anyone here have any experience of a situation like this?
    My concern is if I seal it up with cement, could a build up of soot inside it cause a problem down the line ?


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    jimf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭jimf


    soot build up can block the stove and cause poor combustion

    carbon monoxide poisoning is the danger we all hear and read about

    1 poster on here knows better than most as he lost his sister to it

    without seeing your set up the only advise i can give you is get it done safely and properly

    and if you dont have 1 a co alarm is a must have


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    Lenar3556
    Registered Users Posts: 1,354 ✭✭✭Lenar3556


    MrBumBum wrote: »
    Will do my best to explain this clearly.
    Had my chimney swept and wanted the guy doing it to pack some fire cement around the pipe leading from the stove to the chimney. He said he couldn't do it as the pipe is fitted incorrectly and it could leave him liable if something went wrong.
    Basically there is a gap where soot can fall from the chimney onto the top of the stove. The cement that was there when we bought the house has gradually fallen out the last couple of years and soot keeps falling down.
    He said his solution would be to take all the piping out and refit it properly, or if I wanted to I could pack it with rockwool and fire cement myself.
    I've had a lot of annoying once off large expenses lately and would favour the cheaper option if it was safe.
    Anyone here have any experience of a situation like this?
    My concern is if I seal it up with cement, could a build up of soot inside it cause a problem down the line ?

    His concern is possibly that by filling that gap, soot could, over time, build up in the space immediately above and this soot buildup could be a fire hazard. How big of an issue this actually would be is not clear from your photo.

    If it was me I wouldn’t fill it, I would invest in a couple of CO alarms, and plan to get the thing reflued properly.


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    MrBumBum
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭MrBumBum


    Lenar3556 wrote: »
    His concern is possibly that by filling that gap, soot could, over time, build up in the space immediately above and this soot buildup could be a fire hazard. How big of an issue this actually would be is not clear from your photo.

    If it was me I wouldn’t fill it, I would invest in a couple of CO alarms, and plan to get the thing reflued properly.
    Yeah that's what I think the potential problem might be.
    I can obviously fill in around the pipe to stop the soot falling down, but am concerned that if soot was to build up above the cement I put in could it possibly be a fire hazard in years to come.


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    Outkast_IRE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,515 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    I would get a properly fitted liner myself connected to it. I think anything else at this stage is a bodge.


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