Chimney Fire

[EternalOptimist]

A bit of excitement eh Coalman, to liven up your week.
Top Tip - dont try the old 'Father Christmas will come and climb down the chimbly' routine with the 3 year old

[Pogle]

My grandfather used to sweep chimbleys.

And attend weddings for good luck.

My grandfather used to dig the stuff out of the ground that folk burnt and which resulted in chimblys needing to be swept

[milanbenes]

we had the chimney swept in the summer for this reason

Milan.

[Coalman]

Did you not maybe consider waking the 6 yo up just in case, you know, your house caught fire?

Every thing was ready to go if the firemen said leave the house - we took advice from the experts.

[Coalman]

You do know why you should call in a chimney sweep every autumn, don't you Coalman?

The new stove had only been fitted 2 months ago. Installer came around yesterday - went oops (he had not swept the old flues very well - the firemen did get four buckets of burnt clinker out!).

He is coming today to re-install and give the old flues a thorough sweep.

[Paddy]

You do know why you should call in a chimney sweep every autumn, don't you Coalman?

MP knows a song about that

[TykeMerc]

UD? No idea what that acronym represents.

Sounds pretty alarming Coalman, quite lucky that no serious damage from the fire or the water from the Firemen happened I'd guess.

[d000hg]

You do know why you should call in a chimney sweep every autumn, don't you Coalman?

If that's not in UD yet, it should be.

I assumed this thread was going to be SY01's when I first glimpsed the title.

[PRC1964]

Phew, glad it worked out OK in the end.


* Must remember to get the chimney swept.

[cojak]

You do know why you should call in a chimney sweep every autumn, don't you Coalman?

[Platypus]

"Chimney Fire started by Coalman"

Very droll !

[shaunbhoy]

Well interesting Sunday night.

Stocked up the fire with coal and wood to fight off the cold temperatures and settled down to watch some crap TV.

Looked at the stove and thought the fire seems to be drawing well, took a second look - fck!! the flue is glowing red, look outside, smoke streaming out of the side of the chimney stack, top of the flue glowing red - aaaahhhhhhhhhh!

Called the fire brigade - they turned up really promptly. Three hours later they finally gave the all clear. They had poked and prodded the flue from above and below, bit of water down the stack (which only started dripping down after about a minute, the rest just steamed!).

Told by fire brigade this was one of the worst and complicated chimney fire they had experienced - scary. We'd done the right thing calling them out. I dread to think what would have happened had we gone to bed without noticing - <shudder>

To top it off - our youngest woke with a bad reaction to the latest antibiotics for his latest bout of tonsilitis - watching firemen coming in and out of my house with 3 year old on lap vomiting into a bowl - what a night!

Comedy moment: our eldest (6) slept through the lot - firemen on a ladder outside his window, flashing lights outside the house, rods rattling up and down the chimney breast in his room. Only finally woke up when fireman went into his room to check the wall temperature with his thermal imaging camera.

What a night - still slightly shaky.

But other than that a fairly sedate evening?

[oversteer]

Did you not maybe consider waking the 6 yo up just in case, you know, your house caught fire?

[Wodewick]

Makes my couple of beers with the Mrs sound a bit tame, but give yourself a pat on the back cos as they said, you did the right thing. Alls well that ends well all that.

[Coalman]

Well interesting Sunday night.

Stocked up the fire with coal and wood to fight off the cold temperatures and settled down to watch some crap TV.

Looked at the stove and thought the fire seems to be drawing well, took a second look - fck!! the flue is glowing red, look outside, smoke streaming out of the side of the chimney stack, top of the flue glowing red - aaaahhhhhhhhhh!

Called the fire brigade - they turned up really promptly. Three hours later they finally gave the all clear. They had poked and prodded the flue from above and below, bit of water down the stack (which only started dripping down after about a minute, the rest just steamed!).

Told by fire brigade this was one of the worst and complicated chimney fire they had experienced - scary. We'd done the right thing calling them out. I dread to think what would have happened had we gone to bed without noticing - <shudder>

To top it off - our youngest woke with a bad reaction to the latest antibiotics for his latest bout of tonsilitis - watching firemen coming in and out of my house with 3 year old on lap vomiting into a bowl - what a night!

Comedy moment: our eldest (6) slept through the lot - firemen on a ladder outside his window, flashing lights outside the house, rods rattling up and down the chimney breast in his room. Only finally woke up when fireman went into his room to check the wall temperature with his thermal imaging camera.

What a night - still slightly shaky.