Recent content by davidc51

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm just surprised that there doesn't seem to be something available off the shelf for this. It looks like a bodge is called for until I get round to removing the flue and capping the chimney when the weather improves.

Here is a pic of the offending flue end. I have temporarily filled it with some polystyrene packing but I'd like something a bit more permanent until we get around to removing the old flue and redecorating. [/img]

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Our old boiler has recently been replaced and I want to put a cap over the end of the chimney flue where it appears in my fireplace. It is a 5" flue but I can only find either chimney caps (for the other end of the flue) or flexible caps which don't seem to come in the correct sizes (nearest I...

I have a dual flush cistern and the short flush has stopped working. The problem is that I don't know what type of syphon I have as it was already fitted to the cistern when I bought it. The blue plunger is the short flush and all of a sudden it stopped working. The other, long flush, works...