soot cleaning
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soot cleaning
Happy New Year folks, hope this year brings everyone everything they desire and more. This year is our first year with a wood burner and we are experiencing great problems with our lovely white walls turning a lovely shade of yuk. Does anyone have any advice as to cleaning the yuk or is this something you have to live with? Many thanks. C
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Re: soot cleaning
Happy New Year folks, hope this year brings everyone everything they desire and more. This year is our first year with a wood burner and we are experiencing great problems with our lovely white walls turning a lovely shade of yuk. Does anyone have any advice as to cleaning the yuk or is this something you have to live with? Many thanks. C
I'm no bil but if you have yuk your stoves not working as it should.
Cleaning yuk try sugar soap.
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Re: soot cleaning
Happy New Year folks, hope this year brings everyone everything they desire and more. This year is our first year with a wood burner and we are experiencing great problems with our lovely white walls turning a lovely shade of yuk. Does anyone have any advice as to cleaning the yuk or is this something you have to live with? Many thanks. C
My money would be on it being a partial or complete blockage and the chimney needs sweeping tooty sweety.
Or, is it mould, which is always a perennial problem. The Spanish clean it off with bleach, which is why you see fr*gging MOUNTAINS of bottles of bleach shifted every year between now and spring. If it is mould, then get a clean soft bristlr broom and a pail of warm/hot water with just a drop of washing up liquid. You dip the broom, shake off the surplus and scrub about a sq metre at a time, Dry it vigorously with an old towel and move on.
We got rid of ours like that last year, and it didn't start to return till now.
A lot cheaper and healthier that splashing bleach around like a mad thing.
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Re: soot cleaning
Okay, google and wikipedia come up with zilch... What is yuk???
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Re: soot cleaning
Thanks, it didn´t compute in the context of the OP´s message for me.
Check the chimney for holes, I´d say. Or have it swept.
Check the chimney for holes, I´d say. Or have it swept.
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Re: soot cleaning
That in itself only causes a problem where the hole is so big that the entrained air can chill the flue gasses below the dew point so that condensation takes place, causing surprisingly large amounts of black watery fluid to run down the flue