Robert Tyrrell
Gas Engineer
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Last year I fitted an inset gas fire and when I left it was all working fine but I had a call to go and look at it yesterday and noted that the surround was extremely hot just above the fire and, on inspection, found evidence of heat build up on the fire itself (discoloured paint above the spillage test point).
I did another spillage test that worked fine with a smoke pen, and there was no CO leakage around the fire.
The flue is the precast block type with the rectangular opening and the fire is a Flavel Windsor HE MKll.
As the original spillage test was ok, I'm mainly concerned about the heat transfer to the surround, and to the top of the fire, especially as the MI says that the deflector (Wasn't there in the first place) should be removed if fitting to a precast flue.
When I look a the image of the flue block (Front at the bottom of the image), it looks as though the heat is hitting the flue block and surround instead of going up[ the flue.
Can anyone explain this to me? And, more importantly, what my actions might be at this point?
I did another spillage test that worked fine with a smoke pen, and there was no CO leakage around the fire.
The flue is the precast block type with the rectangular opening and the fire is a Flavel Windsor HE MKll.
As the original spillage test was ok, I'm mainly concerned about the heat transfer to the surround, and to the top of the fire, especially as the MI says that the deflector (Wasn't there in the first place) should be removed if fitting to a precast flue.
When I look a the image of the flue block (Front at the bottom of the image), it looks as though the heat is hitting the flue block and surround instead of going up[ the flue.
Can anyone explain this to me? And, more importantly, what my actions might be at this point?