I'm sure you've heard the expression about getting warmed twice with firewood, once burning it and once cutting it.Same here, but fitness is the snag!
Sure who needs a gym membership.
I'm sure you've heard the expression about getting warmed twice with firewood, once burning it and once cutting it.Same here, but fitness is the snag!
Unfortunately, I did. Ended up getting an x-ray because he didn't use a proper bird excluding cowl and I ended up coughing up blood. The weld mesh he'd used on the chimney pot instead of a proper bird excluding cowl sooted up and completely choked the chimney. Smokey fire, but couldn't possibly be a badly installed flue because I'd used HETAS, could it? I'd convinced myself it was a 'cold chimney' and I just needed a hotter fire.Good luck trying to find a hetas engineer.
Is he really expensive, sounds to me lie he saved your lifeUnfortunately, I did. Ended up getting an x-ray because he didn't use a proper bird excluding cowl and I ended up coughing up blood. The weld mesh he'd used on the chimney pot instead of a proper bird excluding cowl sooted up and completely choked the chimney. Smokey fire, but couldn't possibly be a badly installed flue because I'd used HETAS, could it? I'd convinced myself it was a 'cold chimney' and I just needed a hotter fire.
When the fault was finally diagnosed by my sweep, I took it up with HETAS who didn't want to know...until I quoted their own promotional literature back to them! Trust in experts? It's just another one of these clubs for the 'good ole boys'.
I found a good sweep but he got expensive. I now have my own rods and it takes me about an hour.
3xI'm sure you've heard the expression about getting warmed twice with firewood, once burning it and once cutting it.
Sure who needs a gym membership.
I know you are not as fit as you once were but how does it take an hour?I now have my own rods and it takes me about an hour.
All getting a bit complicated.3x
Cutting it down,
Cutting it up,
Burning it
You could also include a 4th - clearing and burning the brash
You'll have one of those fancy expensive kits that doesn't take a pair of mole grips and a hammer to get the joints apart. Then there's the expensive Persian carpet that has to be rolled up, not to mention dust covers on all the valuable antiques. I also take a professional approach to the job, complete with risk assessments and statutory coffee breaks. These damned amateurs!I know you are not as fit as you once were but how does it take an hour?
Mine takes 10 minutes if I dawdle.
Unlike my brush sets that both undo themselves even if you keep turning them as they go up - I've taken to taping the joints as I go!You'll have one of those fancy expensive kits that doesn't take a pair of mole grips and a hammer to get the joints apart. Then there's the expensive Persian carpet that has to be rolled up, not to mention dust covers on all the valuable antiques. I also take a professional approach to the job, complete with risk assessments and statutory coffee breaks. These damned amateurs!
sorry to jump in .... i am looking to fit a wood burner with back boiler to run some rads , but due to European regs there does not seem to be much choice . any ideas on types left out there and suppliers
Good luck finding a HETAS engineer that will sign off a rear exit flue pipe. They always now seem to insist on a top exit for at least 750mm long straight pipe before a angled turn in the pipe.
Had a rayburn and also rear exited woodburner /multifuel for ever and a day, always fitted my self and swept not clip board warriors here paid big money for nothing,sorry.Unfortunately, I did. Ended up getting an x-ray because he didn't use a proper bird excluding cowl and I ended up coughing up blood. The weld mesh he'd used on the chimney pot instead of a proper bird excluding cowl sooted up and completely choked the chimney. Smokey fire, but couldn't possibly be a badly installed flue because I'd used HETAS, could it? I'd convinced myself it was a 'cold chimney' and I just needed a hotter fire.
When the fault was finally diagnosed by my sweep, I took it up with HETAS who didn't want to know...until I quoted their own promotional literature back to them! Trust in experts? It's just another one of these clubs for the 'good ole boys'.
I found a good sweep but he got expensive. I now have my own rods and it takes me about an hour.
I do have a log splitter but currently have a source of smaller stuff which I put through a tilting saw like the one in the video run by the MF 135. The logs drop into the bucket of my 390 and are then tipped into a couple of 4x4 skips in the shed. The guy in the video is surely paid by the hour as I can go twice as fast as that! It all works pretty well.@Dry Rot if you have tractor a hydraulic log splitter does save some of the work .
I cut them so they just fit in width ways, sometimes I put two smaller ones sometimes just a bit one, I dont split legs as find once its burning well they dont need to beWe’ve just had a Charnwood 5kw fitted, and what size of log are you using to last through the night?
Bit too much exposed blade for my likingI do have a log splitter but currently have a source of smaller stuff which I put through a tilting saw like the one in the video run by the MF 135. The logs drop into the bucket of my 390 and are then tipped into a couple of 4x4 skips in the shed. The guy in the video is surely paid by the hour as I can go twice as fast as that! It all works pretty well.
Not as bad as a proper old Fergie one...Bit too much exposed blade for my liking
I undo stuck rods by twisting by hand and smacking the stuck joint with the brass on another rod. Works every time but only ever need to do it when draining, they don't get stuck when chimney sweeping.You'll have one of those fancy expensive kits that doesn't take a pair of mole grips and a hammer to get the joints apart. Then there's the expensive Persian carpet that has to be rolled up, not to mention dust covers on all the valuable antiques. I also take a professional approach to the job, complete with risk assessments and statutory coffee breaks. These damned amateurs!
modern flues aren't quite so suitable for sending a small child up them are they.I undo stuck rods by twisting by hand and smacking the stuck joint with the brass on another rod. Works every time but only ever need to do it when draining, they don't get stuck when chimney sweeping.
Anyway, I didn't know you were including cleaning up time, my missus gets to do that bit and it takes her hours. She'd be a lot quicker if she did less tutting and crying while doing it.
My old man once attempted to clear a rooks nest that had fallen down the chimney by going up in a cherry picker and dropping a half litre Molotov cocktail of diesel down it…..You'll have one of those fancy expensive kits that doesn't take a pair of mole grips and a hammer to get the joints apart. Then there's the expensive Persian carpet that has to be rolled up, not to mention dust covers on all the valuable antiques. I also take a professional approach to the job, complete with risk assessments and statutory coffee breaks. These damned amateurs!