I have a wood burning stove. The steel pipe goes into the chimney about 2ft above. We lit the fire earlier, and before you know it the chimney was on fire - very frightening. I closed all the vents to the woodburner and closed the top chimney vent. Eventually the chimney fire went out but it took quite a while.
I've decided to rerope the door and window seals as well as sweep the chimney tomorrow, to be sure of cutting off the oxygen supply as the fire would have gone out a lot quicker than it did. Some of the problem is the steel pipe between the box and the chimney. The joint is filled with fire cement, but as is normally the case, the cement cracks up and allows the air through to make matters worse.
Does anybody know of a make of flexible fire cement?
I've decided to rerope the door and window seals as well as sweep the chimney tomorrow, to be sure of cutting off the oxygen supply as the fire would have gone out a lot quicker than it did. Some of the problem is the steel pipe between the box and the chimney. The joint is filled with fire cement, but as is normally the case, the cement cracks up and allows the air through to make matters worse.
Does anybody know of a make of flexible fire cement?