Fire place - just wondering what you think

[Shower Engineer]

With solid fuel a lot of the heat comes off the flue pipe which normally helps to heat the room.
Could it be that it has been boxed in to hide the flue and vents put in to allow the flue to still heat the room? They do look like heat marks to me.
Could you not pull one of the vents off to take a look?
However if there is any doubt I would get someone to take a look, it is always a good idea to have a detector whatever the outcome.

 

[Old Account]

With solid fuel a lot of the heat comes off the flue pipe which normally helps to heat the room.
Could it be that it has been boxed in to hide the flue and vents put in to allow the flue to still heat the room? They do look like heat marks to me.
Could you not pull one of the vents off to take a look?
However if there is any doubt I would get someone to take a look, it is always a good idea to have a detector whatever the outcome.

To be honest they have got the flue boxed in and the vents are to heat the room. But I want to let it check anyway so that they are on the safe side. It might Ben nothing than stains but it's better to check that.

I have bought this Co alarm. I need to know where to place.

Thanks for your help too

 

[Shower Engineer]

Can't say what the instructions are for your detector but I have attached the relevant part for the one I have at home.

 

[Old Account]

I've just found the instruction in English so will now install it to manufacture instructions.

 

[Old Account]

Here are flue o I tired

 

[cr0ft]

If you can see the flue along it's whole length for inspection then a visual inspection of it plus a smoke test would most likely suffice I'd say. Warm the flue then whack a smoke pellet in the fire and look inside the chimney at the flue to see if any smoke comes out. If not then what you are seeing is probably heat rising up inside the chimney.

 

[Old Account]

If you can see the flue along it's whole length for inspection then a visual inspection of it plus a smoke test would most likely suffice I'd say. Warm the flue then whack a smoke pellet in the fire and look inside the chimney at the flue to see if any smoke comes out. If not then what you are seeing is probably heat rising up inside the chimney.

I will test the flue in the next 3 weeks when I go back for couple of days. I could not check it last time because I did not have the pellet. This time i will take a couple and will make sure it's ok. Thank you for your advise. I really appreciate