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Why is there no marketplace for swaps and secondhand goods on this site? Or is there something similar elsewhere? For instance, I am soon to liberate a Boulter balanced flue that would give many more years of active service. New, they cost around £150. What a dreadful waste if it ends up in...

Cheap? £20 for a bit of tin? How about this then? (You'll need to scroll down a page or two) https://vault1.secured-url.com/chimney/acatalog/Index_Page_4__Diameter_Gas_Oil_Flexible_Liner_17.html Can silicone stand the heat?

From heaven, back down to earth... This the one? http://www.hotline-chimneys.co.uk/liner_class2_100mm.htm#295 . I see no screws. Do they need fire cement to seal them?

They must have had fun writing that. Seems to me the vicar was conned.

Oh really? Did you read about the church that had to pay over £2,000 to change a light bulb? Jobsworth told the vicar they couldn't use a ladder any more because it was above regulation height, so they had to erect full scaffolding rig with qualified electrician in attendence. And you wonder...

You do make life very difficult for me sometimes, Oilman. There I was thinking we could just stuff the flue up the hole. Now I (rather, my mate Ivan) will have to climb up a ladder to the chimney top, which will certainly not make the Fat Controller happy under his Working Heights Directive...

Sorry, my terminology is that of an amateur. Let me explain. What we have is a chimney, 6 ins diameter, which had a previous life with the old boiler. It runs from the boiler cupboard downstairs to a chimney stack on the roof. The solid tubular lining seems to be some kind of fibrous compound...

Bleedin well wasn't. Spent all evening working it out. Sad git. Mr Tudsbury (aged 112) was a help, through the good offices of Madam Petulengro.

Too expensive? I'm now going to have to scrap 6m of SS liner, Chinaman's hat, blanking plate... and pay out for this lot... all because you told me I had to fit a solid flue between boiler and stack. I want my money back. What am I bid, along with a little-used Boulter Camray horizontal exit...

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Neat one, Chris. Thanks. But elbows come in various angles (mercifully - no way could I do this job using 135deg fittings without major surgery to standard-issue pipes). So here, dusting off the parchment for the benefit of the thousands of readers who are gagging to know.... Where L is...

Morning all Trying to design a flue to fit between an existing boiler and chimney stack. Does anyone have a formula for calculating the offset achieved by two elbows of given angle separated by a pipe of given length? Also the height of the three items together. There was a time when I...

My job? Hey, I'm not paid for this (where have I heard that before?) Softus is good. You're good. See if you can do your respective things without locking horns. Love & peace to you, Softus, and the whole world (apart from J phukin Prescott, who I'd like to cut into small pieces and feed...

A bit cryptic for this simple soul. If you mean Softus, I think he's trying to depose you as resident boffin.

Pragmatic as ever. Thanks, Oilman. All the way to stack base or enough to accommodate Mr Sweep? I know you're going to say the former but it seems a waste to throw away a stretch of liner I've just bought and replace with expensive pipe. Reduce from 6? Who you calling lazy?

One more question if I may (well, five questions). 1. Been looking at the OFTEC guide and Building Regs Part J. They contradict eachother. OFTEC says a liner, when fitted within an existing chimney, should be packed with insulating material. Two Jags says just the opposite - air space is...

Come on then. Don't keep us in suspense.

Oh great. Now you're asking me to find a torch that works. Dunnit. 6. Boring. Thought you lived on the moon. Your other address, very useful: "What can you do to protect yourself and your family from terrorism"

You're a rotten swine and you're not coming to my birthday party. A while back, I asked if anyone would like a superb, solid, enamelled cast iron flue. Advice was to skip it. Guess where this magnificent piece of ironmongery came from - the very place where I now need a superb, solid...

Oh sh-1-t. Does this mean you have to have a solid pipe from the boiler up to the chimney base, in my case about 4ft?. Even if it's all enclosed in a cupboard? (Haven't started the job yet).