Last night I experienced my first chimney fire. G assures me we were lucky - if we'd not caught it before we went to bed, it could have burnt the house down... Thanks mate.
We only cleaned the chimney a month ago too, which made it particularly unexpected. In an attempt to bring at least a semblance of warmth and dryness to our draughty old house, we keep the fire going 24hrs (albeit on low heat while asleep or out). Apparently, this might have caused tar to build up inside the chimney, risking chimney fires.
So we'll keep more of an eye on it now, having fully scraped out the flue. But once again: why oh why oh WHY isn't central heating standard here?!!
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