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attractivebrunette
CHIMNEY LINING
I've been trying to find someone to install a gas hole in the wall fire for almost a year now. I'm now literally at the point where I'm ready to pull all my hair out in clumps and scream and bang my head on the wall!
I've had countless fire experts and fire-fitters and chimney sweeps and flue-liners in to site survey and every single one is telling me something different or trying to rip me off or messing me about. What the hell is wrong with these people??
Some are insisting I need to line my flue to give me a better 'draw' (the strength of the 'pull' that the flue uses to expel carbon monoxide). This seemed really strange as I did physics at school and can use common sense to understand that the wider the flue, the stronger the 'draw'. Thus lining a 10" square chimney with a 7" liner, will reduce the draw. Eventually I spoke to someone today who agreed with me.
He also said the only reason a chimney should be lined, is if it is unsafe. Yet an expert at Gazco / Stovax who sell the fire, insist that it must be connected to a 7" liner to stop the carbon monoxide falling back down the flue and shutting the fire off every few minutes (the fire has a built-in carbon monoxide detector that shuts the fire down if it detects a build-up).
So, how is it that the fire manufacturer can insist I fit a liner to stop the carbon monoxide 'falling back down' the flue, yet an expert fitter, tell me a liner will reduce the amount of draw up the flue?
So, come on, I need someone independent on here, a real gas fire and chimney expert to simply tell me the truth.
Is it the case that everyone is telling me I have to have my flue lined is doing so simply because they want to line it for me? But if that's the case, why on earth would the fire manufacturer insist the flue is lined, when they wouldn't benefit financially from me lining it?
Are they trying to get people to line their flues because the retailers and fitters who sell their fires have asked them to tell people to line their flues, simply so they make lots more money and get extra work?
I've honestly been trying to sort this out for a whole damn year and I simply can't get a straight answer from anyone.
The other problem is they all speak using terminology that the average consumer simply doesn't understand.
Can someone, please, please just give me a straight, honest answer?
I've been trying to find someone to install a gas hole in the wall fire for almost a year now. I'm now literally at the point where I'm ready to pull all my hair out in clumps and scream and bang my head on the wall!
I've had countless fire experts and fire-fitters and chimney sweeps and flue-liners in to site survey and every single one is telling me something different or trying to rip me off or messing me about. What the hell is wrong with these people??
Some are insisting I need to line my flue to give me a better 'draw' (the strength of the 'pull' that the flue uses to expel carbon monoxide). This seemed really strange as I did physics at school and can use common sense to understand that the wider the flue, the stronger the 'draw'. Thus lining a 10" square chimney with a 7" liner, will reduce the draw. Eventually I spoke to someone today who agreed with me.
He also said the only reason a chimney should be lined, is if it is unsafe. Yet an expert at Gazco / Stovax who sell the fire, insist that it must be connected to a 7" liner to stop the carbon monoxide falling back down the flue and shutting the fire off every few minutes (the fire has a built-in carbon monoxide detector that shuts the fire down if it detects a build-up).
So, how is it that the fire manufacturer can insist I fit a liner to stop the carbon monoxide 'falling back down' the flue, yet an expert fitter, tell me a liner will reduce the amount of draw up the flue?
So, come on, I need someone independent on here, a real gas fire and chimney expert to simply tell me the truth.
Is it the case that everyone is telling me I have to have my flue lined is doing so simply because they want to line it for me? But if that's the case, why on earth would the fire manufacturer insist the flue is lined, when they wouldn't benefit financially from me lining it?
Are they trying to get people to line their flues because the retailers and fitters who sell their fires have asked them to tell people to line their flues, simply so they make lots more money and get extra work?
I've honestly been trying to sort this out for a whole damn year and I simply can't get a straight answer from anyone.
The other problem is they all speak using terminology that the average consumer simply doesn't understand.
Can someone, please, please just give me a straight, honest answer?