whelan2 wrote: » One of our Angus bulls had a pig tail post wrapped in his ring this morning
Thanks Bass.
Swept the chimney yesterday, some resistance half way up. I know a flue is cracked, have an occasional drop of chippings. What I had thought of doing was insert a steel flue similar to the oil boiler one. Insert from top down, until it reaches the back boiler. Mad idea or what?
Got some shock there, setting up banking app on new phone there was a tutorial on quick balance access, thought I'd been cleaned out 😂
If it's for an ordinary stove you will need 100 mm at least if not 125 mm. You need to get the continuous flue all the way up. You then need to seal it around the bottom where it meets the stove, ideally you should remove the stove to replace the flue.
However I suspect it's an open fire this is why the flue cracked excessive heat going up the chimney. I do not think it is recommended that you do not use 100-125 mm flues with open fires AFAIK you will not have enough of a draught and carbon monoxide would be a big danger
Bass, It's one of those triple pass back boilers, plumbed in.
That is oil so I presume any way you can get a flue in should work, but you must plumb it to the back of the boiler
The years a sibling is away, multiplied by the thousands of miles they were gives the number value of the prize pr678 they are about the home place.
Rant over.
Are they home for long??😂
18 months Now.
Lol
Tested positive here myself feeling grand 10 days isolation shouldn't be hard on the farm...always something
Will they send you to the factory?
Maybe like Eamon Ryan you should ask for another test ??
hope you keep well.
Have a horrible cold myself, headache, sore throat, cough. Tested negative though.
I'd say I'm gone overfat...I can't complain feels like a bit of a cold so far
Well I did an antigen test and that came back negative.... that was after the PCR test was positive
A bit of padding is no harm.
Good to hear it isn't too bad. Any idea where you caught it?
Antigens tests give a lot of false negatives. PCR are more accurate however they detect COVID after the infectious period. You need 3-4 negative antigen tests to be sure you are negative. That is why we have been slow to use and depend on them.
No idea don't go out at all so might have been from one of the kids as its at school is a possibility
Throw a pull rope with a heavy ball weight down the chimney, split upper end into 3 and tape to the flue liner, you can have one person pulling and one pushing.
Our triple back boiler barely has room for a chimney brush to go up
I miss understood what a triple pass Back boiler was. I am not sure if I would be in favour of reducing the flue size with what is effectively an open fire with a boiler behind it.
Sounds like a plan, thanks
Is a steel pipe to line flue liners out of the question over a coal or wood fire. There is only ever a handy fire these days due to the extra house insulation that was added 10 yrs ago. The triple pass back boiler needs a roaring fire to heat the rads and was never very good. It takes the outside oil boiler to heat the house.
Would you consider a fairly big insert stove or a free standing stove great for rads and way more efficient than the open fire
Plumber suggests a stove any time he is here. Sooting and ashes puts me off. I prefer the oil, whatever the price. The house is easy to heat, has good insulation. The fire is just nice to have.
The open fire let's 40m3 of oil heated air up the chimney every hour.
Doing an Eamon Ryan...
we'd always have the draught turned off in the stove when it's not lit. the chimney pulls air from everywhere , causing draughts. sotve and oil is seldom on at the same time
Iknow the triple pass boiler is a disaster to have plumbed into the system if it's not being used..... the oil burner has to heat it and the then the heat off it only goes up the chimney....... there wasn't as much known about central heating 40 years ago. we disconnected ours years ago
Hadn't thought about that. Something to concentrate the mind. Thanks for the insights.
Can you fit a fire door to the front of the fire place. It will reduce the draught up the chimney. Also would heat the boiler more effectively.
I have a shut off in the front of the fireplace that closes it off. But what I hadn't realised was that the heat from the hot water in the fireplace back boiler is still escaping up the chimney.
I be of the opinion as well to disconnect the back boiler and remove it. Its inefficient anyway and you always needed a large fire to get any heat in the room. A small hand room heater stove, you buy basic ones for 3-500 euro or an insert stove, I have one fitted in the old farm house that I have rented. Run a new liner and fill around it with vermiculate. You could also opt for woodchip if you buy fuel, but there wood room heaters burn very little.
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