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glenatronThe weekend before last we swapped out the woodstove in our house. It was old and had gaps between the side panels so it wasn't really possible to get any controlled burn out of it, it would just blaze through any logs and then go out unless constantly supervised, and it didn't even put that much heat out when it did. So we got a new stove, took out the old one and put in the new flue liner one must have to comply with building regs, which went fine except there was a fireplace in the way. After some hours with a jemmy, hammer, cold chisel and other manly tools with which I have no experience and for which I have no aptitude whatsoever we could reach the flue liner down into the room. Winners!
Unfortunately the new stove was taller than the old one and the flue outlet was higher and there was no way we were going to get flue liner to bend around and fit on the back of the stove. No way. So we had to order a pipe to go on the back and have a week with no stove. It turns out the little old stove may not have warmed the room up much, but it did a pretty good job of stopping it getting incredibly cold. We ended up sealing ourselves in to the study and bedroom, heating those up with extra electric heaters.
The pipe arrived in the middle of last week and I managed to go back onto the roof and adjust the height of the flue liner to fit more or less correctly on Saturday afternoon in the gloaming.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sleepsy_mouse was out Saturday night watching Alice Cooper, so I stayed in with my little metal snip things and a sheet of steel and watched Pearl Harbor, which is exactly as good as the song suggests. It was very funny. If you wanted to survive the attack the most important thing you needed to have was lines. The more the better.
All my efforts got a roughly-right-size backing plate with a roughly-right-size-but-a-bit-small hole in it that didn't fit the flue pipe through by the end of the evening so on Sunday night I went back to trying to extend the hole. Cutting through steel sheet isn't too hard with these metal shear things we've got, but trimming a couple of millimetres off the edge really is.
While I worked at this on Sunday we watched Born Of Hope which, much like it's fellow recent Tolkien fan-film The Hunt For Gollum managed some very impressive production values and looked great. There were a couple of weak moments in the script, which was a little too clunkingly Tolkien in some places, and one of the actors annoyed me a little but it seems mean to nitpick at what was an entirely respectable achievement and highly enjoyable watching. I was left wondering how on earth that got made without us knowing about it and going off to play at being extras. I'm going to try and keep an eye out for the opportunities to do bits of that in future, especially if it gives Zorro a chance to be the movie star he always believed himself to be...
So eventually the hole was snipped and rasped to size so it fitted onto the flue pipe and then got stuck, at which point I declared it finished. So finally, on Monday, we cemented the stove in place and lit it up:
New stove!
Unfortunately the new stove was taller than the old one and the flue outlet was higher and there was no way we were going to get flue liner to bend around and fit on the back of the stove. No way. So we had to order a pipe to go on the back and have a week with no stove. It turns out the little old stove may not have warmed the room up much, but it did a pretty good job of stopping it getting incredibly cold. We ended up sealing ourselves in to the study and bedroom, heating those up with extra electric heaters.
The pipe arrived in the middle of last week and I managed to go back onto the roof and adjust the height of the flue liner to fit more or less correctly on Saturday afternoon in the gloaming.
sleepsy_mouse was out Saturday night watching Alice Cooper, so I stayed in with my little metal snip things and a sheet of steel and watched Pearl Harbor, which is exactly as good as the song suggests. It was very funny. If you wanted to survive the attack the most important thing you needed to have was lines. The more the better.All my efforts got a roughly-right-size backing plate with a roughly-right-size-but-a-bit-small hole in it that didn't fit the flue pipe through by the end of the evening so on Sunday night I went back to trying to extend the hole. Cutting through steel sheet isn't too hard with these metal shear things we've got, but trimming a couple of millimetres off the edge really is.
While I worked at this on Sunday we watched Born Of Hope which, much like it's fellow recent Tolkien fan-film The Hunt For Gollum managed some very impressive production values and looked great. There were a couple of weak moments in the script, which was a little too clunkingly Tolkien in some places, and one of the actors annoyed me a little but it seems mean to nitpick at what was an entirely respectable achievement and highly enjoyable watching. I was left wondering how on earth that got made without us knowing about it and going off to play at being extras. I'm going to try and keep an eye out for the opportunities to do bits of that in future, especially if it gives Zorro a chance to be the movie star he always believed himself to be...
So eventually the hole was snipped and rasped to size so it fitted onto the flue pipe and then got stuck, at which point I declared it finished. So finally, on Monday, we cemented the stove in place and lit it up:
New stove!
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Date: 10 Dec 2009 11:03 (UTC)