Fire

Chimneys
The chimney in the kitchen is very long... too long. It means that smoke gets cold as it goes along and so the chimney often backs up with soot thus making the fire a lot less effective or even impossible.

We have used 2 main methods of flushing the chimney. One with air, the other with water. A 3rd method where we have tried to scrape out the soot has been tried but it is pretty damn ineffective.

The air method has used an electric leaf blower from the ground floor. This has been somewhat effective. though in my opinion (Josh Carr) the method of going onto the roof and flushing water down the spout has been more effective.

An even more effective addition to this method would be by flushing down some hot potash first as this would go some way to dissolving the resin (fats?) that come from the burning of some woods.