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LOGS FOR THE FIRE...how much for a trailer load....? [18]
Oh man that was bad, my lips fell off hahahahahahahaha
I had a scarey moment with my Polish heater....First of all the dam thing nearly killed me with carbon monoxide fumes , then almost burnt the house down....
After waking up with severe headaches several mornings , and finding that smoke was leaking out of the cracks in the heater i decided to have a poke at it... just near the chimney going out of the heater i found an inspection plate , so removed this to have a look , inside i found the pipe which should have been several inches in diameter was almost totally blocked with carbon , this is caused apparently by incomplete burning , often due to using damp wood....
I chipped away at the carbon untill the hole was a more reasonable size , but could not reach all the way down the pipe , i hoped i had cleared enough to avoid waking up dead the next morning...
I lit the fire , and was much relieved to see it burning much better , with no sign of leaking smoke or fumes , i decided to risk going to sleep....
About 4 am i was woken up by a sound very similar to a mig 29 with its afterburners on , a loud roaring sound , coming from the heater.. I opened the door where you put the wood in to find the wood had almost burnt away , the roaring fire was in the chimney...!
I ran outside to look at the chimney pot , clouds of dense white smoke , sparks , looked like a bloody volcano...!
I went inside the house , ran upstairs to see what was happening to the part of the chimney that was in the upper room , getting a bit warm , but not enough to make a fire...
I thought about phoning the fire service , but decided to risk letting the fire burn itself out , as it was doing a pretty good job of burning all the carbon out of the chimney that i could not get to....
Unbelievably the roaring went on for almost two hours before it died down , and didn,t set fire to the house or the barn next door....
Since then the fire has worked very well... I am well aware that i came pretty close to not waking up due to the fumes coming out of the fire , one morning i was barely able to get out of bed and stagger to a window , had a bad head for days....
So , if you buy an old Polish farm , get the dam fire checked out before you use it...you could wake up dead....!
