oil heating pipe

Spikey2

Sorry I don't know the right name for this, so I hope you know what I mean

The cover on the top of my oil heating pipe (chimney) has blown off. It blew off a long time ago and I still have the cover in the garage. Should it just be pushed on again or would screws need to be used to keep it from blowing off again?

macman

Are you talking about the flue from the boiler?

Spikey2

macman wrote: »

Are you talking about the flue from the boiler?

Thanks very much for answering. So many had read I thought nobody was going to reply

Yes its the flue from the boiler. The boiler is in the garage and the flue goes up through the corrugated metal sheet garage roof.

Any ideas?

societys_child

So many had read I thought nobody was going to reply

Probably because nobody knows how it fits/ can't see what it looks like. So no one would want to say "yeah, just bung it back on" if it could block the flue and fill the garage with fumes etc.

A bit more info?

Spikey2

societys_child wrote: »

Probably because nobody knows how it fits/ can't see what it looks like. So no one would want to say "yeah, just bung it back on" if it could block the flue and fill the garage with fumes etc.

A bit more info?

Are they not all standard? It was pushed on before but eventually blew off again. The only other info I could give would be a photo I suppose.

southcoastrgi

errrr yes a photo would be good

macman

Make and model of your boiler?

keystone

Spikey2 wrote: »

So many had read I thought nobody was going to reply

I read it yesterday and decided I didn't really understand it as written and by then I'd run out of guesswork bandwidth for the day anyway.

A pic sounds an eminently sensible suggestion.

Cheers

Spikey2

I don't know the make and model of the boiler, I've looked but I don't see any brand/badge on it. I know its old anyway.
Here's the photos


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Sorry that one isn't great but its the only angle I could even see it from

southcoastrgi

that's the boiler flue & terminal, yes it should be re-fitted, you should use a couple of screws to secure it, although from your 2nd pic it looks too close to the roof to me

Spikey2

southcoastrgi wrote: »

that's the boiler flue & terminal, yes it should be re-fitted, you should use a couple of screws to secure it, although from your 2nd pic it looks too close to the roof to me

Its been off for quite a while, would that have done any harm?

Its been there before that tiled roof was built and the builders just left it like that. They didn't say it needed a taller flue, no surprises there, they probably couldn't be bothered to change it