What harm does a chimney fire do?

Just popped over the road to the Fire Station & asked them your question, they had a minor sense of humour failure & ranted on about fumes, structural damage caused by heat & other things but the general opinion seemed to be that chimney fires are "very bad" & that anyone starting one deliberately is "rather foolish & ill advised" (there was some mention of their parents marital status too)

Can't you send an angel up their to sweep it out with his/her (what gender are angels?) wings?

 

Think you can get thease brick things that you put in the fireplace and light called genie or something ? supposed to clean out the soot and stuff .It cost me 25 to get mine swept last year not too bad really i burn all sorts of stuff pallets coal pureheat things furniture depends on whats kicking around and how much cash i have

 

old dear who worked here had one, stayed alight for days, full fire brigade job, some serious cracking to the structural chimney breast area, cost a fortune to fix, sweeping it will only be about 25 squidleys

 

Hmm, given the fire brigade's opinion I may just have it swept......... I've heard of those logs that "clean" your chimney, but apparently all they are is a very wet MDF type thing with a lot of accelerants added to try and make the soot weep down into the fireplace.
I've a set of drain cleaning rods somewhere, and I'm sure there was a brush to go on the end at the old girl's house.
Although last time the old girl had hers swept the sweep hoovered the whole room afterwards with his diesel-powered super-hoover thing that ran from a van - my place could do with a good old hoover, maybe 25 is worth it for getting both done at once!

 

try a couple of liters of atf up the chimney...

 

I love ATF, it cleans everything....... feck "clarifying" shampoo, I'm off to wash my hair in ATF.........

 

delightful smell too

 

The ladies love it......... beats Issey Miyake any day of the week!

 

Probably tastes better than that Fernox stuff you,ve been drinking

 

Not much could taste worse, straight. Though I've yet to try ATF and coke........ the ultimate "colon cleanser"?

 

I am currently burning approx 300 sq ft of old lino flooring. Smokes a bit, but then so do I.
It's OK though, I am carbon neutral - my back garden is like a rainforest..........

 

want me to come chop it down?

 

You wouldn't say that if you knew what his back garden was really like! Makes the Vietnam killing fields look like a pleasure park..............

 

"Oh bugger! Me brushcutter just hit 25l of hydrochloric acid.......MY EYES, MY EYES!"

 

You need to go up on the roof and drop something down the chimney that will cause a lot of aggitation to the soot on the way down.

Might i suggest a cat? that's bound to struggle a bit on the way down methinks.

 

an epileptic kid

 

an epileptic kid in a novelty furry cat suite with a PSP taped to his eyes

 

Well the old girl delivered a "Chimney cleaning firelog" to the doorstep tonight. It claims it'll clean the chimney. It also claims to burn for 90 minutes and it's been nearly 3 hrs since I lit it.
Still, I suppose it's a free fire........ looks just like one of those instant fire logs you get, but wetter.
I asked the neighbour who he uses to clean the chimney and he said "stack it with newspaper and a big dose of paraffin, every 2 years. Burns out in about 45 minutes, but you get 45 minutes of people ringing your doorbell to tell you your chimney is on fire".
Not a fan of the sweep, obviously..........

 

not sure i want to ask what the TSC equivalant is going to be