Why you should get your chimney cleaned

Russe11

My parents slumber burn, you simply can not tell them....

muckybutt

Russe11 wrote: »

My parents slumber burn, you simply can not tell them....

:eek::eek::eek: eek ! the absoulute worst thing you can do with a stove next to trying to burn wet wood.

stussyvw

Ok dumb question of the day, im looking to get a rayburn fitted soon, i assume this will need access for sweeping somehow? and errr what is slumber burn?
Claire

Jib111

Very good post OP we was at one point getting behind with sweeping the chimney as we do it our selfs, we learnt our lesson when the living room was getting filled with smoke and we had to have the windows open at night.

Ectophile

stussyvw wrote: »

Ok dumb question of the day, im looking to get a rayburn fitted soon, i assume this will need access for sweeping somehow? and errr what is slumber burn?
Claire

Slumber burning is shutting the air vents right down to reduce the fire to a slow smoulder. By throwing on enough fuel then shutting the vents down, it's possible to burn a fire all night.

However, this produces a lot of tarry smoke, which then clogs up your chimney or flue.

You'd have to check with your Rayburn supplier how the chimney is swept. I would hope that it was a simple matter of removing a few panels.

muckybutt

Rayburns always have a 5 or 6" flue that goes into either a lined or unlined chimney, if unlined the chimney will require a soot box to allow the full chimney to be swept, the Rayburn itself has a trap / dampner at the bottom of the flue which allows the fle to be swept, this can also be used to sweep a lined chimney if a liner is fitted.

highrisklowreturn

Would just like to add my voice to the get your chimney swept thread. Swept my own today. What a pain. The baffle plate wouldn't come out, despite stripping the entire stove down, so I had to screw off one of the legs, to lower the stove, and disconnect it from the stove pipe.

When I got it off, I set about sweeping. Produced 3 ft wide of soot to a depth of a ft. Absoutely gobsmacked at the amount of soot up my chimney, after14 months burning. Have swept other people's and they are nothing compared to this. That said I do burn bituminous very often and love the housecoal, but I'll be considering moving totally to smokeless from now on.

I live in a two story house so to have this amount is shocking.

muckybutt

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

Would just like to add my voice to the get your chimney swept thread. Swept my own today. What a pain. The baffle plate wouldn't come out, despite stripping the entire stove down, so I had to screw off one of the legs, to lower the stove, and disconnect it from the stove pipe.

When I got it off, I set about sweeping. Produced 3 ft wide of soot to a depth of a ft. Absoutely gobsmacked at the amount of soot up my chimney, after14 months burning. Have swept other people's and they are nothing compared to this. That said I do burn bituminous very often and love the housecoal, but I'll be considering moving totally to smokeless from now on.

I live in a two story house so to have this amount is shocking.

Strewth :eek:

You see this is why we advise to get regularly used fires and stoves swept regularly, its not just a money making scheme for us sweeps, it is your safety more than anything.

butler_helen

Stupid question of the day... We don't have a stove/gas appliance. We have an open fire, we bought the house in July 2012 and have not had it swept. As we have gutted the room, is now a good time to do it? I.e is it a messy job and do we need to get it done? Or is sweeping just for certain types of fire/appliance? We burn (dry) wood and nothing else.

abwsco

butler_helen wrote: »

Stupid question of the day... We don't have a stove/gas appliance. We have an open fire, we bought the house in July 2012 and have not had it swept. As we have gutted the room, is now a good time to do it? I.e is it a messy job and do we need to get it done? Or is sweeping just for certain types of fire/appliance? We burn (dry) wood and nothing else.

Yes, it needs sweeping and really should have been done before you first used it. Very little mess when the sweep did ours. HTH