Woodburner use

A._Badger

Greenfires wrote: »

That'll be the smokeless - it leaves a really fine grey dust. And to be fair, although I'm a dyed in the wool woodburner and never use it myself - it does do a pretty good job of helping to keep a chimney clean and free of deposits.

I changed sweeps this year and the new one confirmed what the old one had said - which was that our use of smokeless leaves almost no deposits. I should add, that includes burning a carport full of wood during the warmer months, so maybe the heat from the smokeless helps disperse the deposits from the wood?

suki1964

We use smokeless and have a twin walled flue and next to nothing is removed from it

The logs we do burn are usually just added to eke out a days smokeless so I guess not a lot of damage

suki1964

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

It may or may not be spot on for what you'd expect. I sweep chimneys and have found some old ones with about a carrier's bag worth - about standard for mixed use.

Others I have found with about 3 bags worth - simply because previous sweeps hadn't swept them right. The thing about yours will be that the chimney, at the bottom, will have been degraded or rebuilt through the years, or restructured to accommodate a back boiler. The reason it may have yielded little soot is that your sweep didn't clean these areas, or hasn't reached in and around your fire - something which I do - to identify them.

You only posted the other day about a sweep you used. Do I take it that's you and the post was just a cunning ploy to drum up some custom?

Greenfires

Apparently he "used to have a chimney sweeping business" Suki - though he must have been quite a special one, as much of the advice he's dished out here over the past year or so has been the complete opposite of what I, or any other sweeps I know would have recommended!

As far as the smokeless thing goes - it may be down to the flue gases from smokeless being more corrosive than those from wood as well as a little extra heat. I quite often suggest that customers have a burn of smokeless now and again if their chimney is starting to get a bit glazed with creosote.

suki1964

Greenfires wrote: »

Apparently he "used to have a chimney sweeping business" Suki - though he must have been quite a special one, as much of the advice he's dished out here over the past year or so has been the complete opposite of what I, or any other sweeps I know would have recommended!

As far as the smokeless thing goes - it may be down to the flue gases from smokeless being more corrosive than those from wood as well as a little extra heat. I quite often suggest that customers have a burn of smokeless now and again if their chimney is starting to get a bit glazed with creosote.

No that was the other chap who said he had sold it on, this is the first mention of highrisk being a sweep.

Which when you look at his posting history just beggars belief

A._Badger

My memory is the same as Suki's.

I scent a wind-up.

muckybutt

suki1964 wrote: »

No that was the other chap who said he had sold it on, this is the first mention of highrisk being a sweep.

Which when you look at his posting history just beggars belief

It was suki...not highrisk that is.... it was the chap who didnt fit register plates that was the sweep and that whole debate we had on register plates and building regs, cant remember who that muppet was

oldtractor

how much soot should one expect from a lined chimney we have a multifuel burner and burn wood and coal [ not smokeless]. This is our main heating so stove lit all winter and some of the rest of the year too.
How often should I haver the chimney swept? Is it ok to give the stove a good blast occasionally , will this burn off any deposits from , maybe not -so-seasoned wood?
Thank you.

Greenfires

Coal isn't recommended for use in any multifuel stoves as far as I'm aware - it's pretty filthy stuff. I went to sweep a liner about a fortnight back - they'd stopped using the stove as smoke wasn't going up the chimney any more. Completely filled the whole stove twice with what came down from the liner!

Edited to say that I'd swept the same liner less than a year ago when the stove was burning wood and smokeless..

highrisklowreturn

Wrong and wrong again. I do my own, and a few of my neighbours. It isn't rocket science.