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Smoke or Heat Alarms?

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Mornin' All,

I am familiar with open fires that burn logs or coal.  I am not so familiar with enclosed "log burners" or enclosed "multi-fuel stoves".


When using these is there a chance of some or fumes being created when using them that could trigger a smoke alarm, especially at the time of first lighting them?


I am about to plan a system for a holiday let cottage that has two log burners in  two separate rooms. We don't want false alarms as the detectors will be interlinked.


Smoke or heat types?


Z.
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    My point was that if you get a lot of smoke, the installation may not be correct -  woodburners may be notifiable works to building control, but I think plenty just appear in fire places without the paper trail  or more importantly proper testing,, and not always following the best advice.

    I have recently seen one where the neighbour's builders removed the chimney breast upstairs, without realising that the chimney pots for the two houses were front and rear rather than either side , (i.e.two chimneys, one per house, forming a wider but less intrusive column as a bulge in the party wall)  and they left both pipes, including the one  to next door's woodburner,  open to the bedroom at floor level.

    Luckily the bits of brick dropping into the grate alerted the side with the wood burner, and in the end the whole thing became more comic than tragic, and the chance was take to fit a proper flue liner as well as to reinstate half a chimney breast, but it could have been nasty, - if it misbehaves it may be wrong -  there are some very funny set-ups out there.

    Mike.
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    My point was that if you get a lot of smoke, the installation may not be correct -  woodburners may be notifiable works to building control, but I think plenty just appear in fire places without the paper trail  or more importantly proper testing,, and not always following the best advice.

    I have recently seen one where the neighbour's builders removed the chimney breast upstairs, without realising that the chimney pots for the two houses were front and rear rather than either side , (i.e.two chimneys, one per house, forming a wider but less intrusive column as a bulge in the party wall)  and they left both pipes, including the one  to next door's woodburner,  open to the bedroom at floor level.

    Luckily the bits of brick dropping into the grate alerted the side with the wood burner, and in the end the whole thing became more comic than tragic, and the chance was take to fit a proper flue liner as well as to reinstate half a chimney breast, but it could have been nasty, - if it misbehaves it may be wrong -  there are some very funny set-ups out there.

    Mike.
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