Real fire fireplace chimney leakage 4 reasons and countermeasures?

In recent days, the temperature in the north has plummeted, and I believe that many friends must have taken out a magic weapon for heating - a real fire fireplace to drive out the cold and heat, but the continuous rainy days have brought another fatal problem. If you use a chimney without a chimney cover, then the rain will be left from the top, which can prevent birds, animals and debris in ordinary times. These are the greatest uses of chimney covers. Once the chimney is not equipped with an exit protection device, such debris will fall and be blocked at the bottom of the chimney, and the user will also be affected by CO poisoning of the real fire fireplace.

Install the chimney cover, remember to ask a professional to install, because this thing is not as simple as it seems.

# 2 Many of the causes of leakage come from certain cracks in the chimney itself

There are also some friends in the real fire fireplace chimney is installed chimney cover, but there is still a leakage problem, this time you need to consider whether the chimney cover itself has cracks, once such a problem, it will produce leakage, water leakage and so on.
How to fix

The chimney cover can be repaired: In this case, the damage is generally not too serious, and the use of coating materials to repair small cracks can achieve the desired effect.

The chimney cover can not be repaired: The chimney cover of the real fire fireplace can not be repaired too easily if the overall structure is damaged, and the most simple and effective and economical solution is to replace the new parts in time.

# 3 Real fire fireplace chimney memory condensed water

The formation of condensed water is actually a reaction after combustion, today's true fire fireplace generally strong combustion technology, high thermal efficiency, but more easily to form condensed water, its main component is carbon dioxide with water vapor, but with a high degree of acidity and corrosion. Don't underestimate this material, a woman I know paid a high price for this many years ago, first just a common wall peeling, and then the house beam, load-bearing wall, the whole wall is deteriorating, but it is not too late to fix, she spent tens of thousands of dollars to solve the problem.

How to fix

The smoke produced by a real fire fireplace is very cold and contains a lot of moisture. This soot condenses on the inside of the chimney, corroding the chimney wall day after day, and destroying the dam's ant nest if not careful. But if we install a lining, we can easily solve this problem.

# 4 Masonry seepage

This problem is more likely to occur in the old fire fireplace we built or left behind at home, brick and mortar can produce water penetration, often once it occurs is overwhelming, serious cases can even lead to the house as a whole seepage, water leakage phenomenon. For this reason, we need to waterproof the chimney of the real fire fireplace, but you must be careful to decide which waterproof material to use (never use silicone sealants). Due to the temperature in summer, moisture will be absorbed by the brick or mortar joints. Exceptions may be objects that block the path of direct sunlight or chimneys that are installed on a dark side that is difficult to receive sunlight.

How to fix



To determine whether your real fire fireplace chimney is leaking from the surface, please perform a more professional absorption test (MAT), although professional but do not worry, in fact, it is easy to perform, is to connect the special test tube to the side of the chimney, and record the time when the water is absorbed into the wall. This will give you a more objective and scientific assessment of the next waterproofing treatment.