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Hi all,
Moved into out new place a few weeks ago no and noticed something odd.
Its a 1930s semi with two open fire places downstairs and 2 bricked up in the bedrooms. There are also 2 chimneys both with 4 pots each so 2 per stack per house.
Now the back room has a log burner with a steel cowl on the pot, ive used a smoke bomb in the burner to identify the pot. There is a clay pepper pot type cowl with holes in again on my side which is what I presume is the bedroom pot.
Now in the back bedroom there is a vent on the bricked up old fire on the skirting board:
Upon removing this is appears they have just cut the skirting away and knocked a brick out:
I presume this will be good enough?
Now the question I had is in the front bedroom there is no vent. I can see the pot is capped the same as the other but no vent. I presume I can just do the same as the one in the back bedroom and remove some skirting and remove a brick? Does it need a vent?
The downstairs front room fire is just open at the moment and the pot is also open / no cap. The previous owner has just stuffed a big bag of insulation up the chimney but left enough gap for some air flow. Im not sure what we are doing with this fireplace yet but the pot is remains uncapped. Shall I cap it anyway as we wont be using it as a fire, will either brick it up or make a feature of it.
Many thanks!
Moved into out new place a few weeks ago no and noticed something odd.
Its a 1930s semi with two open fire places downstairs and 2 bricked up in the bedrooms. There are also 2 chimneys both with 4 pots each so 2 per stack per house.
Now the back room has a log burner with a steel cowl on the pot, ive used a smoke bomb in the burner to identify the pot. There is a clay pepper pot type cowl with holes in again on my side which is what I presume is the bedroom pot.
Now in the back bedroom there is a vent on the bricked up old fire on the skirting board:
Upon removing this is appears they have just cut the skirting away and knocked a brick out:
I presume this will be good enough?
Now the question I had is in the front bedroom there is no vent. I can see the pot is capped the same as the other but no vent. I presume I can just do the same as the one in the back bedroom and remove some skirting and remove a brick? Does it need a vent?
The downstairs front room fire is just open at the moment and the pot is also open / no cap. The previous owner has just stuffed a big bag of insulation up the chimney but left enough gap for some air flow. Im not sure what we are doing with this fireplace yet but the pot is remains uncapped. Shall I cap it anyway as we wont be using it as a fire, will either brick it up or make a feature of it.
Many thanks!