Hi all, I'm posting this here as on searching there seem to be a few other chimney related questions and some good responses.
We've moved recently. The new house is 1908, large Georgian pile, V-nice etc... Has double glazing all round, quite well sealed etc.
Last night we were in our living room which seemed a little cold in comparison to the rest of the house, despite the CH being on.
Turn on the nice open flame gas fire my better half says! So I do, thinking that there's a bit of a draft coming out of the chimney? The flames are all disturbed and literally being wafted out into the room! After ten minutes of head scratching and ascertaining that it's not windy outside, and noone's left the front door open or any windows upstairs etc, the room is roasting hot and we're getting a bit headachey!
We depart the room of silent death and head for the kitchen!!
This morning the weather is dead calm, and there is still a flow coming down the chimney. It's a surprise as we ran the fire a few weeks back and didn't have anything like the same problem. Maybe there was windflow then which somehow mitigated the problem?
Is this a common problem? What can be done? Do we need to fit a special cowl to the chimney stack or similar?
Your comments would be much appreciated.
We've moved recently. The new house is 1908, large Georgian pile, V-nice etc... Has double glazing all round, quite well sealed etc.
Last night we were in our living room which seemed a little cold in comparison to the rest of the house, despite the CH being on.
Turn on the nice open flame gas fire my better half says! So I do, thinking that there's a bit of a draft coming out of the chimney? The flames are all disturbed and literally being wafted out into the room! After ten minutes of head scratching and ascertaining that it's not windy outside, and noone's left the front door open or any windows upstairs etc, the room is roasting hot and we're getting a bit headachey!
We depart the room of silent death and head for the kitchen!!
This morning the weather is dead calm, and there is still a flow coming down the chimney. It's a surprise as we ran the fire a few weeks back and didn't have anything like the same problem. Maybe there was windflow then which somehow mitigated the problem?
Is this a common problem? What can be done? Do we need to fit a special cowl to the chimney stack or similar?
Your comments would be much appreciated.