Chim Chim Chim Chimene-eney
Chim Chim Chim Chimene-eney
Now we know (..roughly) where the furniture and fittings are going, we can get the vent pipework into position and in this case, it means we’re ready to re-instate the gable end chimney and stack.
The chimney stack on the southern gable-end had largely collapsed so when we fixed the roof, we took out whatever we could from the flue, saved the stone and after a chat with Donald, it was clear we’d be able to come back to it in the future. Having pointed the inside walls, I was a bit upset about having to re-do the whole stack on the inside though and was cursing our impatience in getting it done. We wanted to make sure as much of the flue-pipe was exposed as possible to maximise the heat transfer from the log burner so we decided to put the new flue as high up the wall as possible and run the pipework to it, rather than have it heat up just the stone on that wall.
Not having pointed the outside walls though, meant Donald could access the flue externally and just repair the small area internally around 3m up the wall where it comes out at 45 degrees. It’s clearly a different colour to the pointing surrounding it but hopefully over time this will be less and less obvious and if we fit a wall plate around the flue, will disappear altogether. I’m happy though and now Donald just needs to rebuild the stack from the outside.