Moving to Aargh 17 - Books

 We have a lot of books.  And we moved them ALL the past few weeks. 

Insert 7 - chimney sweep

The new stove needs a flue pipe of 18cm diameter, the existing galvanized steel pipe is 20cm. We'll insert a new inox 18 cm pipe into the 20cm existing pipe.  Before that the old pipe needs cleaning: sweeping. I guess it's never been done before. 

Bought a chimney sweeping set on a certain online store, €30, consisting of a brush, and 12 flexible rods that you can attach to eachother, to use it to clean the chimney, rotating the brush using an electric drill.

Closed the pipe off at the bottom with a very strong bag. You really don't want soot in your house. And so don't we. It's not a little, I think the bag contains about 550 g dirt.

Insert 6 - Metalfire Optimum - enclosure partly demolition

The old stove needs removing to make room for the new one. Very important: what size pipe is the chimney channel? The Metalfire needs an 18 cm diameter flue pipe, the existing channel is a 20 cm galvanized pipe. Two problems: 20 cm is too wide, and galvanized steel is not suitable as a flue pipe.

The engineer hopes there is a second tube inside this 20 cm one, that is 18 cm. 15 cm would be trouble. (15, 18 and 20 are standard sizes)

As it was...

Roasting Papaya and Tex

Take the front of the enclosure off:

Removed the old stove, there is a raised platform there, ladrillo and cement:

Also note: no insulation whatsoever.  That is bad. Walls and pillars need to be protected from a stove's heat.

Brittle cement, pebbles, and thus a hole in the floor:

The chimney flue pipe is a single 20 cm pipe, galvanized steel. Rubbish!

The good news is that there is no 15 cm channel in there, so we can just put a new 18 cm flue pipe in there, Engineer Jansen already is assembling a shopping list for 18 cm wide inox pipe materials. 

Also, the inside of the enclosure needs insulating the walls. Rockwool Firerock seems nice, semi-rigid rockwool panels 100x60x3cm. Comes in boxes of 10, for ca. €150. But more on that later.

Fill the gap in the floor with cement for an even level floor:

Leftover bits:

Oooh!