Multi Fuel Stove Problems

cmart021

Evening folks. Wondering if anyone can help me. I had a stove fitted last year by a 'reputable' fitter. It is a small multi fuel stove using the original clay chimney.

The fitter put a reducer(?) on to a length of flue so that the 5" stove flue would fit the 9" clay chimney opening. He filled the gaps around this with rockwool and fire cement.

The stove seemed to be working fine until large chunks of the rockwool and fire cement started to fall on to the stove.

When the chimney was swept from above large amounts of soot feel onto the hearth and not into the stove, leading me to believe that the gaps between the reducer and the original clay chimney are quite large.

There was no register plate fitted.

I was wondering if anyone has had one fitted in a similar way and if it is ok to fill the gaps again with rockwool and fire cement?

I have phoned a few stove fitter in the area (Northern Ireland) and none will touch it as they did not install it.

Any help appreciated.

muckybutt

Quite a common way of doing them !

Have a look to see if you can get hold of a product called Inglenook Fire cement, it is a clay based fire cement but has added resins etc and is a lot better than just clay alone.

That and the rockwool wadding to fill the large gaps is adequate.

alleycat`

Alternative is something like this.

http://www.hotline-chimneys.co.uk/clay-liner-adaptors/clay-liner-adaptor-125mm-to-225mm.html

highrisklowreturn

Who was your installer - mine was done this way too in Belfast.

Ectophile

It sounds like you need a register plate to me. My stove is also connected to the original clay lined flue. The installer screwed a register plate to the top of the hearth, shoved a short section of flue pipe through the hole in the register plate, and sealed the join with fire cement.