The reason it rang alarm bells with me was for a few days when the oil fired boiler has been starting up on a morning, Malc and I felt we have smelt smoke fumes. To be on the save side we called out our local plumber. He thinks we may not have one of those silver flue pipes running up the chimney of the boiler house.
We certainly have one from the wood burning stove which we had fitted.
The plumber who fitted the system about 15 years ago lives down the road, so we went on a mission to check if he remembered if the chimney had one. He used to live in the house before us so we often ask him things about the house.
The chimney he says was built solidly but no, it did not have an inner flue pipe, which is probably now needed as a real safety feature.
So our next job is to get that fixed; better safe than sorry. I have just said to Malc but we are not at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning are we? His reply " possibly"
If TAG does not appear one morning and you hear donkeys shouting please check us out, it is the fumes you do not smell that are the killers. Malc says we can also fit a carbon monoxide detector.
A reader tells us
We just bought two CO detectors - including P&P they came to £27.50.
Each was on special offer, reduced from £19.99 to £11.06 at Amazon.co.uk.
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They work like smoke alarms, but ignore smoke and detect carbon monoxide.
A detector will tell you if CO is present, and help prioritise any building work...
Val says We have just ordered one this morning and are waiting for a visit from the plumber to measure the size of tube needed for the interior of the chimney.
Val says We have just ordered one this morning and are waiting for a visit from the plumber to measure the size of tube needed for the interior of the chimney.
