Recently, my neighbor in the village burned down the house. The house is new, square log, built last fall. The reason is simple: shrinkage house parted sandwich pipe to the chimney. Here is what he says about it.
I burned down the house. Home from a bar. When you shrink a log house in the ceiling broke module sandwich chimney. I did not look back and not served by the chimney. I was sure that everything is fine, and there is no need to control not, as has not yet passed the warranty period for the chimney. Call the fire department... As they drove, trying to extinguish on its own: a fire extinguisher from the house and the car, water, sand. All is useless, nothing worked. Firefighters drove almost an hour before us, and then told us find the black smoke, and not the address. still stuck with the hard left if you arrive on site. Tanks why is half-empty, so to put out almost nothing. We went to refuel, and arrived only an hour, maybe a little smaller. And what is already an expert, I would have burned the whole house better, so though it was much less work on dismantling the house.
The reason, as I said, is commonplace. Haste in the construction and non-compliance with the distance from the pipe to the sandwich floor beams. When shrinkage log, the beam was pulled for a chimney, whereby it is sold on the joint. The fire appeared to overlap.
Therefore, when installing the chimney,distance must be 250 mm or more to overlapIf it is made of combustible material, and should be covered with non-combustible filler (expanded clay, slag, or just land). Do not look for the quality of the chimney, as it is not a guarantee of safety.
Now I give 5 main installation errors chimney, after which ignition occurs.
1.The rush for the installation and a strong desire to save the host. All fires arise from craving and save on disregard for the most important subtleties when installing the flue system. "Kroitelstvo" in such important and crucial matters and leads to dire consequences in the future.
2.The construction of any house should begin with the design of the stove and chimney installation site design. Most of the under construction house owners think: "The main thing to quickly put the box, and on the stove and then, somehow we will understand. The passage through the ceiling and the roof, think about the amount of space units. Therefore, when it comes to installation time, the stove starts "dancing with a tambourine."
3.Late cleaning chimney soot. The consequences may be of 2 types:
- Inflammation of soot in the chimney with all the heavy consequences;
- Collapse of soot in the chimney, and the closure of all channels. (Consequences: suffocation, death ...)
4.Prohibited apply asbestos cement pipes for chimneys. On leaving the bath furnace temperature reaches 600-800 degrees. A asbestos cement pipe withstands temperatures up to 300 degrees. As a result of overheating, it cracks, and in many cases even with an explosive effect and fragment emission pipe.
5.Compliance with fire protection padding, and distances in the aisle ceilings and roofs. This is what we have talked with you at the beginning of the article.
And finally give yet another example of how not to do the chimney.
When installing this chimney violated everything that could be broken. How to fix? Only to completely disassemble and assemble back in accordance with all the rules of fire safety.
In this article, I examine only some of the questions and touched the tip of the iceberg only. Continued in the following articles.
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