Several years ago whilst having new central heating installed we had a back boiler removed from behind our surface mounted gas fire. A couple of year ago we had a new gas fire fitted inside the fireplace (similar style to a log burner). Since then, whenever we get heavy rain we can hear raindrops dropping down onto the metal plate above the fire and during strong wind the sound of the wind in the fireplace almost drowns out the TV. I’m sure our chimney doesn’t have a cowl so was wondering if having would would solve the problems, and if so which type I should get.
View attachment 224142 A couple of year ago we had a new gas fire fitted inside the fireplace (similar style to a log burner). Since then, whenever we get heavy rain we can hear raindrops dropping down onto the metal plate above the fire and during strong wind the sound of the wind in the fireplace almost drowns out the TV. I’m sure our chimney doesn’t have a cowl .
It looks like your old gas flue liner and small cowl has been used for your log burner style gas fire ( that would make sense ) the noises are typical of that setup ( baxi type back boilers with gas fire fronts were notorious) You Must get a Gas Safe engineer to check the gas fire, it's flue and the possibility of using the terracotta terminal as shown. The uncowled chimney is probably another room .
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Several years ago whilst having new central heating installed we had a back boiler removed from behind our surface mounted gas fire. A couple of year ago we had a new gas fire fitted inside the fireplace (similar style to a log burner). Since then, whenever we get heavy rain we can hear raindrops dropping down onto the metal plate above the fire and during strong wind the sound of the wind in the fireplace almost drowns out the TV. I’m sure our chimney doesn’t have a cowl so was wondering if having would would solve the problems, and if so which type I should get.
