Hi guys
Got a good customer who's having major problems with their open fire. They bought the house about 3 years, LARGE LARGE house, and the chimneys had anti-down draught cowls on each pot (2 chimneys, 1 pot each) first chimney is gas flue (no problems) 2nd open fire - room fills with smoke.
I poked the chimney down to check for any blockages, they had the chimney swept and didn't help. We installed a FlueCube cowl (£400) cowl that's supposed to guarantee performance, didn't help. 2nd option was then a spinning cowl and now only works if the wind is coming from the east.
They have now asked me to install an electric Extraction Fan (£1,000+) but after looking into things, and measuring etc, the chimney breast is about 1.5 / 2m BELOW the ridge line, and I'm thinking the wind is just swirling around this and blowing down the pot.
Has anyone used a Electric van? http://www.fluesystems.com/cgi-bin/...r exodraft&PN=Vortice_Tiracamino.html#SID=209
or would it be better to build the chimney above ridge level?
Cheers
Got a good customer who's having major problems with their open fire. They bought the house about 3 years, LARGE LARGE house, and the chimneys had anti-down draught cowls on each pot (2 chimneys, 1 pot each) first chimney is gas flue (no problems) 2nd open fire - room fills with smoke.
I poked the chimney down to check for any blockages, they had the chimney swept and didn't help. We installed a FlueCube cowl (£400) cowl that's supposed to guarantee performance, didn't help. 2nd option was then a spinning cowl and now only works if the wind is coming from the east.
They have now asked me to install an electric Extraction Fan (£1,000+) but after looking into things, and measuring etc, the chimney breast is about 1.5 / 2m BELOW the ridge line, and I'm thinking the wind is just swirling around this and blowing down the pot.
Has anyone used a Electric van? http://www.fluesystems.com/cgi-bin/...r exodraft&PN=Vortice_Tiracamino.html#SID=209
or would it be better to build the chimney above ridge level?
Cheers
