Vlog 119: Good Vibrations
Over the summer I noticed that in heavy rain there was a slight trickly of water coming down the stove flue. It appeared to be getting in underneath the chimney collar so I had to take it off, clean everything up, de-rust and re-seal. This video shows how I did it and how it was a bigger job than expected.
Tool used: https://geni.us/CtC_DeWaltMultiTool
Excellent video. Just out of curiosity & to hit on a potential point of safety Dave, the fire fibreboard of the internal trim looked to me at least to be surprisingly like Asbestos sheet, or something surprisingly similar if not.! Did you find out what it was after its removal?
Ken
Cheers Ken. No, and I don’t even recall now much about it.
I affixed my cimney collar as it needed doing recently using your video as an instructional guide. . . VERY VERY HELPFULL David thankyou. .
The only differences where i didnt have to deal with cemented flu jounts and i sealed my coller down with Eve-Stick’s Plumbers Mate Putty..
Works amazing.
Thank you for your video
Cindy K
Superb! I’m glad to hear the job went well for you and that the video was useful!
How can a video on sealing a leak hold my attention for 20 minutes ? Thanks David.
Haha perhaps you are a sealant enthusiast? (They must exist)
What do you seal the bolts back in with?
Loctite
Just developed a leak around my flue ppe, your video is great as although the collar on my NB is fine I need to address the gap between the collar and the flue and this video is the only source I have found to help me.
Hi. Glad it was helpful! I hope you manage to fix it.
Another truly fun and informative DIY video David. I very much enjoy watching all of these and please keep them coming. Please take very good care from . Your Yank fan from Phoenix, Arizona USA ;)
Cheers Michael, glad you enjoy them. Cheers
Brilliant VLOG – I viewed it 3 times already! Especially liked the way you used traditional materials to replace the cement in the flue join. And a special mention for the dextrous use of the thumb as well!
I do, however, have a question (or perhaps a misunderstanding). After you had whacked the bolts through from below, how then did you re-attach them? Presumably the threads would have been damaged, no? Or did you get new ones?
– Karl
I didn’t “whack them through” – I unscrewed them from above as originally planned but in the knowledge that they were merely very, very stiff rather than having any bolts on the underside. I had to just apply lots of force with the ratchet to unscrew them, which I had been reluctant to do when I believed they were secured from below.
Your video brought back memories of similar maintenance jobs in my life and made me think of a product designed to prevent threads seizing up.
Those two bolts that held down the roof penetration of the flue could’ve done with a bit of smearing of this product, and you may have done that off-camera, so sorry if that’s the case.
I recall in my day swearing by a product, called “thread eze” and as I recall Blackwoods had something suitable & I guess most good hardware stores would too now-a-days.
Must mean I enjoyed the video David to be so engrossed in the fidgety details.
Glad you liked it. I didn’t add anything to the bolts because, frankly, I hope never to have to remove them again!
I had the same problem with fire cement. I attacked it with a jig saw and, like you was amazed to withdraw the blade to find all the teeth abraded off.
Glad to know it wasn’t just me. Incredibly tough stuff!