Pub Sign

[Farside]

Tbh "plaster" is better protection against the gnawing tendencies of the tunnel bunnies.

Wait a week until the pizza hardens properly. They won't touch it, hard as concrete biscuits.

 

[Cobbler]

Wait a week until the pizza hardens properly. They won't touch it, hard as concrete biscuits.

Years ago, before the resurgence of decent Cornish Pasties, we bought some & went to eat them on the cliffs at Lands End. They were so inedible, even the seagulls wouldn’t eat them, chucked the pastry up & the gulls looked & left it. Thankfully a decent pasty is a joy to eat though.

 

[Onoff]

The vermiculite boards seem to be doing the trick! Sitting about 8' away, avec pint, and I can feel the heat.

https://flic.kr/p/2qvyGaa

This handle mind is as stiff as and a pita to turn when cold. Apparently a customer came in, told to shout if the fire needed more wood and turned the handle the wrong way! Not been right since. It is easier to turn/open when the fire is going. A job for another day but any suggestions?

https://flic.kr/p/2qvyG8M

 

[DAPPH]

Graphite spray and powder to lubricate the rubbing faces

If there is a bolt head on the inside going into the handle be very careful in trying to loosen it , as they tend to be rock solid after a few years and shear off. Little pressure and a gentle tap tap tap on the spanner etc with a toffee hammer after a 48 hr multi cold soak in a penetrating fluid .

 

[Onoff]

Graphite spray and powder to lubricate the rubbing faces

If there is a bolt head on the inside going into the handle be very careful in trying to loosen it , as they tend to be rock solid after a few years and shear off. Little pressure and a gentle tap tap tap on the spanner etc with a toffee hammer after a 48 hr multi cold soak in a penetrating fluid .

Having a bit better look at it and there is a threaded section. The thread looks, for want of better words gummed up as well as possibly rusty. No doubt from years of wood smoke congealing plus lack of use in the summer.

It looks a metric thread, M10 maybe. Fingers crossed, the stove being a Franco Belge one. The hope is if I can disassemble it I can run a tap through the door and die down the thread plus maybe a dip in citric. Thereafter keep on top of the lubrication.

 

[Onoff]

Another thing I'm looking at. There is an open fire in the other bar but this stove is the only form of heating downstairs in use when it's not a pub. (Upstairs they rely on electric oil filled rads).

Looking at the chimney above this inglenook (?) fireplace:

https://flic.kr/p/2qvASni

https://flic.kr/p/2qvv25e

https://flic.kr/p/2qvB6kd

Some people locally have apparently "boarded" directly above the stove to get more heat into the room.

I was mulling something like this. Either fireproof plasterboard or perhaps better, sheet steel supported by the timbers either side. Then Rockwool batts above. Any thoughts?

https://flic.kr/p/2qvBkWY

 

[addjunkie]

no timbers….mines steel

 

[Mick Annick]

Steel plate

 

[Onoff]

no timbers….mines steel

I meant the existing timbers. Not using more. The existing are going nowhere, they're structural to the fireplace.

So if steel with no insulation don't you still lose heat above?

 

[Onoff]

Seems like there's a number of ways of doing this then.

Cement board

Fire board

Steel sheet

Vermiculite board

 

[Onoff]

Steel plate

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Painted black with stove/high temperature paint?

 

[Mick Annick]

Painted black with stove/high temperature paint?

Ordinary Matt black, it doesn’t get very hot

 

[addjunkie]

You should probably fill the chimney with vermiculite. Id bewary of touching it from an insurance perspective!

 

[Onoff]

. Id bewary of touching it from an insurance perspective!

Someone else said that on another site.

Her son is mind a sheet metal worker. He could do it and I could just assist...

 

[DAPPH]

Make a simple blower gun to push sucked up vermiculite up above the plate via a removeable steel plate
Check YouTube for filling a cavity wall with vermiculite chips there are several very good 3d printable designs for such a gun.

A hot air paint stripping gun with heater removed was good enough to produce the blow .

 

[Onoff]

Make a simple blower gun to push sucked up vermiculite up above the plate via a removeable steel plate
Check YouTube for filling a cavity wall with vermiculite chips there are several very good 3d printable designs for such a gun.

A hot air paint stripping gun with heater removed was good enough to produce the blow .

As in fill the whole space around the flue with vermiculite, up as high as it will go?

 

[addjunkie]

As in fill the whole space around the flue with vermiculite, up as high as it will go?

Yes or your loosing heat from the flue reducing the draw too.

 

[Onoff]

Yes or your loosing heat from the flue reducing the draw too.

That must cost a few quid?

 

[addjunkie]

That must cost a few quid?

When I filled ours space around the clay chimney liner I dont remember the vermiculite being that dear. But I was spending money on building materials at a great rate, so perhaps just didn't notice it. We took our house back to bare stone, removed all floors and roof. So few bags of vermiculite would have disappeared into the total bill.

 

[Onoff]

Daughter is going to use what she did on the pub sign as part of her uni portfolio (graphic design). I spoke to a few lecturers whilst viewing unis and they said go for it. Shows a client relationship / requirement, community involvement, increased trade, the power of graphics etc.

Took the chainsaw to a few fallen ash branches Sunday morning. Split with the axe and took a bag up the pub yesterday afternoon.

Sat, few pints in and some left over bread rolls from carol night and a slab of butter.

Doesn't get much better!