Rules chimney cleaning: that there was no fire

Members share their experience FORUMHOUSE cleaning chimneys and tell how to avoid soot in the chimney fire

Stone oven, fireplace or boiler is in a country house - is not only warmth and comfort, but also a great responsibility. The problem of the heat sources in the solid - brick chimney and metal chimney sandwich that thicket soot. Sometimes deposits ignited, and there is not far to the fire in the house. How to avoid it? Do not be lazy time to clean the chimney from soot deposits. We tell you how to do it correctly, so as not to regret what he had done.

Content:

• Why lit soot in the chimney
• How to properly clean the chimney
• Can I clean the chimney soot chemicals
• How to use folk remedies to clean the chimney
• Bonus: Video - floor heating by wood-burning stove

Combustion of soot in the chimney

Look at the picture below.

So burn soot in the chimney. An emergency situation can cause:

• By deformation or destruction of the chimney and the need expensive repairs.
• A fire in the house, and if sparks will fall on neighboring buildings, the fire and hozpostroek or a neighbor's cottage.

Where does the soot in the chimney, and why it comes on? Consider the personal user experience FORUMHOUSE.

sanich2003

I have a two-storey house made of logs. The house is worth a conventional metal heating stove. Indoors I set single-walled stainless steel chimney. Outside its docked with a sandwich - insulated metal chimney internal diameter of 115 mm. Oven drown birch firewood. Once, when after the first bookmark passed half an hour, I saw that the chimney, over the entire height of the second floor, red-hot to red. This went on for 5-10 minutes. Chimney inside the cracked, then he cooled off on its own. But the site of the chimney on the ground floor, from the furnace to the ceiling, remained in good condition. What was it? Whether it is dangerous? What do I do? Do I have to change the chimney now?

Questions are answered by experienced users of the portal.

Alexey Telegin

for stoves and chimney systems expert

I think it's burnt out black. I advise you to inspect the chimney well. If the strain is not present, using it, and more. I recommend further use of the furnace modes and fuel does not accumulate soot and clean the chimney more often.

A user with the nickname Doktor72 advises sanich2003 how to clean a chimney mechanically. And do not allow re-ignition of soot. Another ignition sandwich will not survive.

sanich2003

Thanks for the tips! Calmed. I'll check the flue and will clean it. Tell me whether you can use t. N. chimney cleaners, which are sold in bags? Type tossed into the furnace. He went bankrupt and chimney cleaned. Or, better to take the firewood chopped poplar, and, as it should, to heat the oven, all deposits in the chimney burned?

Alexey Telegin

Poplar wood, chemicals are good for prevention, but not do without the mechanical cleaning of the chimney.

Syslog

Moderator FORUMHOUSE

sanich2003, I advise you to check the chimney for tightness. Possibly lower, somewhere in the meter, there is a leak air. And yet, if you use a long burning mode, on a long section of non-insulated chimney created ideal conditions for condensate formed in the flue and settled unburnt fuel particles, and soot. Always intensely heat the stove, you can not. I have replaced the sandwich, everything above the first meter above the oven. Heat especially you will not lose, but the chimney is clean. I know the place where the furnace stoked with junk - pine, fir, raw wood, but insulated chimney more than 10 years does not require cleaning.

How not to clean the chimney

Many suburban residents think that self-clean the chimney simple. And indeed, what to be able to out there? People think:

"Take the cloth is wound on a stick, climbed onto the roof and go! Why pay money to a chimney sweep? Strange. The chimney is not cleaned because of the dense and thick soot deposits? No problem! SUSPENSION something heavy on the rope or cable and probom blockage. One-two, one-two... Oops, stuck. Now, what to do? "

In order not to create a problem out of the blue, listen to the advice of the party under the name FORUMHOUSE AleshinNikolay. So, how not to clean chimneys:

1. "Sledgehammer in the chimney". The phenomenon of an unpleasant, but not rare. Everyone has seen the chimney tool - weight and ruff on a rope, these are the men and try to repeat it. Only in the course it is all that is at hand - sledgehammers, hammers, cutting metal pipes. As a result, all of this "economy" remains in the chimney.

AleshinNikolay

Never place the chimney goods if they are at least in one place for more than the pipe diameter. I give 100% guarantee that it will get stuck. If the cargo is stuck, do not try to push it down the second weighting. Begging him even more. Disassemble the pipe and push the cargo stuck at the bottom.

Babau

user FORUMHOUSE

Here is a clear example of that shoved into the chimneys. In my case, not stuffed sledgehammer and crowbar. I swear I did not!

2. fake tool. Do not buy a chimney sweep tool if:

• Weight and eyelet are not made of iron.
• The thickness of the rope is less than 8 mm.

Carelessly made instrument breaks during pipe cleaning, and what to do next, see the first paragraph.

3. Ruffs for cleaning the chimney on a flexible rod with a thread. Remember that you can not twist the rod in the direction of unwinding of the connection. If you forget, the tool "samorazberotsya" in the pipe and well point first.

4. soot burning. Tip neighbor, "a rag soaked in kerosene or gasoline, shove in the chimney, set fire and let everything as it should be burned" - harmful. Do not listen to it, otherwise the house slept.

5. Chemical means, as a panaceaPlugged when the chimney - a myth. Do not listen to the seller in a store that says that our means of "strikes" even heavily clogged chimney soot. It does not help in 80% of cases.

AleshinNikolay

"Chemistry" is likely to bring down the black, and she will score a chimney somewhere in the middle. These funds are only suitable for prevention.

Plus these funds - their effect lasts for several days after use. Before you buy be sure to read the instructions for use!

6. If the pipe is clogged, do not clean it from the top.

AleshinNikolay

Soot, and most likely to say coke fall down. This will create a big traffic jam, the breakdown of which the top is almost impossible t. To. The coke is very good dampens shocks.

If the tube lumen scored more than 40-50%, then begin to clean the bottom of the pipe is necessary. Before climbing to the roof, clean the furnace or boiler. In most cases, the blockage there, rather than in the vertical part of the chimney. Clean chimneys should be at least 1 time per year - in the fall.

Whether folk remedies help to clean the flue

Many are interested in the question: "Is effective" antiquated methods "cleaning chimneys?". Someone heard that a pipe can be cleaned by burning aspen or alder wood, potato peelings or pouring boiling water. Let us turn to the practical experience FORUMHOUSE users.

Ildus72

Interestingly, as if to burn aspen or cleaning potatoes, the chimney can be cleaned? Or is it - a fairy tale?

AleshinNikolay

These tools really work, but only as a prevention. If the chimney is clogged and poorly drawn, they will not help. Burn them, without waiting for accumulation of soot deposits in the chimney.

Ildus72

And how to burn aspen firewood? Apart from the General tab of logs or with the fuel, such as throwing them in the end? And more, heard chimneys sauna stoves clears, splashing water into the heated tube. Say, steam knocks soot. So you can do?

AleshinNikolay

Firewood can throw and so and so. I recommend to throw a cup of starch on a well burning embers, but cautiously - blaze. Clean the chimney steam do not advise. This is dangerous. Upon contact of steam with carbon black may form a "water gas", as it burns. Tube harmful sharp temperature drops.

supertaxist

And I, for the prevention, once a week to shower on the coals in the fireplace a large handful of dried potato peelings. It helps.

conclusions

To sum up all the above, it is easier to prevent disease than to treat it. Do not be lazy to periodically clean the chimney and burn a few logs of alder or aspen, potato peels or chemical means. It is easier and more efficient than waiting until the last, and then wrestle with how to unclog a clogged chimney or fear that black lights.

Vadim_Fil

user FORUMHOUSE

I use a special powder to clean the chimney. I fall asleep every third load of firewood. Chimney clean. Once a year, for the prevention, brush tube brush, which are wound on a flexible "stick." Why reinvent the wheel when all invented before us.

Stoke the oven dry wood. Not recommended for cleaning metal chimney steel brushes. As the "rod" for attachment can be used Yorshik pipes from floor heating or polypropylene pipes of small diameter. When working at height, on the roof, use the insurance.

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