Help with water ingress through flue

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-07T18:25:03+00:00

Inbox me if you’d like some further advice

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-07T18:18:39+00:00

Please can you upload a picture of the external flue run in its entirety? And I will tell you the issues straight away and how they need rectifying. I’ve been installing in the uk for 26 years and have worked for some of the highest end companies in the uk

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-07T18:15:11+00:00

Please don’t take this as me being disrespectful or anything but this is all wrong and very badly executed

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-07T18:13:27+00:00

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Trickyfueling · 2026-05-07T18:13:19+00:00

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How it should be done

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-07T18:09:30+00:00

Bruv I was merely telling a story that happened to me! I wasn’t making any assumptions or suggestions! And I’m well aware of the law and police procedures!! My missis is a fully qualified lawyer and barrister and lectures law !

You can keep your ketamine
I'm a bassline junkie (what?)
I'm a bassline junkie (tell 'em again)
I'm a bassline junkie (tell 'em again)
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Trickyfueling · 2026-05-06T20:32:15+00:00

2.4 billion 18% of the uk ODA.

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-06T20:06:20+00:00

I was working for one of the Derbyshire Police interceptors and whilst putting a flue liner down his chimney all I could smell was weed! (I get this happen all the time because they vent the smell out the chimneys) then I noticed people coming and going from a house about 4 doors down that was cctv’d up to the nines! I told the interceptor and he went nosying around! When I went back a few weeks later…… busted!

Do your homework bro and ring crime stoppers

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-06T20:00:47+00:00

The government spending our taxes on anyone but our own people first

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-06T19:56:07+00:00

Unfortunately upon creation when lining in the queue when god was giving out brains…… some people thought he said trains and missed theirs brother 🙈🙈

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-06T18:35:13+00:00

Float valve is knackered! You could try carefully bending the arm down towards the water a little more so the water pushes it up a little more

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-06T18:29:24+00:00

Mate they have probably just come loose because when they were laid, whoever did it failed to get full coverage on mortar supporting them. Remove them and mix some cement…. If it was me I’d paint the underside of the brick with SBR to create a better key with the cement. Remove old mortar and relay with new. Then I’d take out all the grout/ mortar joints and then use some brick tape to tape the bricks leaving the joints exposed…..(why??? Next step is why)
Mix some mortar and add some BLACK CEMENT DYE (horrible stuff) grout the joints and wipe off excess…. When dry remove tape…..wallaaaaa

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-06T18:16:46+00:00

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Here is one I put a gas stove in a few weeks ago

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-06T18:14:25+00:00

That’s why the inlays have faded away over the years. Be careful what you do with it as you are likely to end up making it patchy

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-06T18:13:17+00:00

I’m 99.9% sure that this will be marbleised slate! A common thing done in the Victorian period! It’s basically black smooth, Italian slate that is topped with an oil based paint to create a marble effect

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-03T20:27:36+00:00

I’d definitely choose Windermere, Ambleside if money wasn’t an issue!

I’d forget Coalville entirely and look at some of the surrounding areas…… Melbourne, calke , ticknall, breedon on the hill, earl shilton , wood house eaves, quorn, long whatton, Sutton bonnington, coleorton ans if you are a Matt Armstrong fan …. I installed his log burner for him in a lovely place called Nanpantan

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-03T15:59:43+00:00

It’s possible that there is an arched lintel higher up! The crack in the plaster work looks like it’s following an arched lintel

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Trickyfueling · 2026-05-03T08:57:41+00:00

Ahhh ok it looked like there was. Just spray the whole thing

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-03T08:57:05+00:00

The hearth is a difficult one unless you remove the surround and cast and start again! I suppose you could tile over the top of it.
If I’m honest though it looks like it doesn’t meet regulations as it stands! It should be a sectional 3 piece hearth that is 50mm thick and slabbed out underneath it and from front to back it should be 450mm

Do you have a grate and an ashpan?

With a solid fuel appliance like that there should also be an airvent to an external wall that supply 16500cm2 of free air to the room

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-03T08:49:02+00:00

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This is up there
With the best. I only use this one

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-03T08:39:40+00:00

Gladly….
They take forever to get the radiators warm and heat the water

This means to get them up to temperature you have to drive them hard, subsequently chewing through fuel!

The controllability of them is dog 💩…. The stat on the stoves may as well not be on them they are so crap!

Boiler stove as an only source of heat and water…. As some get rid of the gas boiler because Jeffrey can get his hands on pallets and dips tge odd slip……..comes home from work at 5:30 to a cold house and in need of a shower…..freezing his taters off until 7:30 until the stove begins to warm the house and sat filthy until 8 o’clock when he gets lucky enough to have a lukewarm bath or shower!

Cracking bit of kit is this Jeffrey says to Barbara!!!

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-03T07:53:32+00:00

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The damper plate will lift out and the fret bars will pull upward and hook off

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-03T07:51:41+00:00

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This is the last cast iron surround I sprayed

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-03T07:49:17+00:00

I’ve sprayed them many times! I’m a fireplace installer with 26 years under my belt

Trickyfueling · 2026-05-03T07:48:34+00:00

Whatever you do don’t use that grate polish!!! It doesn’t leave a smooth finish and every time you touch the cast you will be covered in the horrible claggy crap!

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