New year, and back at work so I've finally got access to the internet again 
The top of my chimney is rubbish - it appears to have been designed by the well know architects bodgit and gash, on a Friday afternoon. In the pub.
Basically it goes almost vertically up from the fireplace straight through the roof to outside. Only it doesn't have a conventional pot. It has a slab across the top, and about 3 or 4 courses of brick by about a brick and a halfs width removed on 2 sides to act as the ventilation. Sadly as these 2 holes face east & west when it rains and is a bit windy you get water coming down the chinmey, or as it did last week when the snow melted lots of water
Soooo - I don't have any fire there (though I want to leave my options open for the future so don't want to cap the stack off fully), so I'm looking at ways to deal with the problem. My plan is to get a roofer to bolt a sheet of something metallic over the western facing hole, and bolt another sheet over the eastern facing one - this one will probably have a pipe coming out of it sideways, which I'm wanting to turn upwards 90 degrees, and finish off with a mushroom cap on it to keep out the rain. This should hopefully stop blowing rain gettingdown the chimney, and allow enough ventilation in the event of me ever wanting to have a fire / stove fitted.
But... (and there's always a but).... Where on earth can I get the piping / mushroom cap as screw fix doesn't seem to stock it, and a trawl round the local sheds is bringing up a blank. And is this approach likely to work???
The top of my chimney is rubbish - it appears to have been designed by the well know architects bodgit and gash, on a Friday afternoon. In the pub.
Basically it goes almost vertically up from the fireplace straight through the roof to outside. Only it doesn't have a conventional pot. It has a slab across the top, and about 3 or 4 courses of brick by about a brick and a halfs width removed on 2 sides to act as the ventilation. Sadly as these 2 holes face east & west when it rains and is a bit windy you get water coming down the chinmey, or as it did last week when the snow melted lots of water
Soooo - I don't have any fire there (though I want to leave my options open for the future so don't want to cap the stack off fully), so I'm looking at ways to deal with the problem. My plan is to get a roofer to bolt a sheet of something metallic over the western facing hole, and bolt another sheet over the eastern facing one - this one will probably have a pipe coming out of it sideways, which I'm wanting to turn upwards 90 degrees, and finish off with a mushroom cap on it to keep out the rain. This should hopefully stop blowing rain gettingdown the chimney, and allow enough ventilation in the event of me ever wanting to have a fire / stove fitted.
But... (and there's always a but).... Where on earth can I get the piping / mushroom cap as screw fix doesn't seem to stock it, and a trawl round the local sheds is bringing up a blank. And is this approach likely to work???
