Multifuel stove and soot smells – Page 2 – Chat Forum

lovewookie · 2018-12-18T10:59:00Z

Had a multifuel stove fitted a few months ago. we bought the stove, guy came and fitted, charged us £1800 for the pleasure (£900 upfront for parts, liner ect.), which we didn't think too bad. The house is a late 1700's sandstone built cottage, looked like the firebricks in the fireplace had collapsed, so ha that cleared and made safe if needed. Since it was installed, we went through the usual new stove odours, which lasted about a week, but now, when you leave the room and come back in, there is quite a sooty odour, I think from the original chimney. We've had a fair amount of sooty crap fall onto the top of the stove over the initial few weeks, I thought due to heating up the chimney and loosening whatever is there. But this hasn't stopped, sunday we had a bit a little smaller than a golf ball fall and roll out onto the floor, along with a load of soot. Thankfully it didn't get to the sofa. I got in touch with him about a month or so ago to ask what could be done and whether he swept the chimney. he said they could only get halfway before the brushes couldn't go any further. Sounded fishy to me, he also offered to fit a plate at the base of the chimney to prevent stuff falling into the fireplace. As a lay, I'm not sure about having all the sooty crap held against a hot flue pipe and the risk of fire. I was having a look up inside the chimney the other day, stuck my hand up and there's about 0.5-1cm depth soot in the inside. Not convinced it's been swept at all, so told him just that, and my concerns about it. So, he's coming back to give it a second sweep, as far as he can, and fit a plate. This is going to be a WWSTW do. Do I let him back in, or do I just get someone else to sweep the chimney with the flue in there? can that be done, or do I have to have the liner removed first, then reinstalled? Bit concerned that he'll not do the job properly, but I have little experience of what needs to be done so may be worrying about nothing. I'm also concerned about the sooty smells and the possible health risks. its different if you have an open fire, all of the gassess and soot go up the chimney, but with a lined stove in a chimney, there's no updraft in the chimney from the stove, so any 'degassing' of soot/tar deposits will likely come into the room? We do have a CO detector and that's not picked anything up. any advice?

sharkbait

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Liner adapters are a bad move according to my installer.
Which was annoying at the time as I was short on money, but I still paid to get the liner fitted as I trusted his advice.

Posted : 21/12/2018 8:13 pm

trail_rat

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Ah so there's no back story just guesses ?

Posted : 21/12/2018 8:26 pm

bedmaker

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Aye.

Posted : 21/12/2018 8:51 pm

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