Thread: slow combustion heater removal

Hi and welcome to the forum. I am sure someone will jump in with some worthwhile advice.

Is it freestanding or inset in a wall and if you can post some pictures

Welcome Holi. I agree that some pics would help us to understand the problem. May I also say that this particular section of the Forum does not appear to be as visited as some of the other sections and so some people with the right knowledge might not get to see your request. If you don't get enough helpful replies here, I suggest you put your question in one of the sections of the Renovate Forum which can be accessed from the left hand side bar.

The ones I have seen have all pretty much just been held together by gravity. Start at the flue on the roof and take the hood off then take down the flue in sections.

Things to be aware of:

1. When you pull the flue section out of the roof, make sure the section inside the house is supported, or it may just fall over and smash whatever it lands on. (How do I know this? )

2. The flue will probably be doubled skinned and, at least where it passes through the ceiling and roof cavity, be packed with asbestos rope or some other insulation. Be prepared for asbestos and not have to make it up as you go along when you find it. (How do I know this? )

We removed one about ten years ago.
The biggest problem we had was that it is was sitting on a layer of bricks and after 13 or so years of heat these and the mortar were rock hard - expect some jack hammer work if yours is the same.

The flue lifts up and slides out from the ceiling easily enough, we just used the cover from an extraction fan to cover the hole and that looks neat enough.
Cheers
Paul

G´day holi and welcome to our world.

Sounds like you might be doing some renovating so it will be hwlpful to visit the Renovate Forums. Just click on the button in the lefthand column of this page.

I just want to wish you welcome to the forum.

Took mine out years ago - it was free standing on a brick plinth with a waist high brick wall behind it on two sides (it was in a corner)

I lifted the first section of flue out of the top of the heater and dropped the four enamalled one metre sections out individually. - they went into a cover plate on the ceiling and then into a larger gal steel pipe which penetrated the steel roof.

I then toolkout the smoke plate to lighten it turned it around and slid it on a couple of boards off the plinth - picked it up on a two wheel trolley and rolled it down to the back outdoor open workshop

ripped up all the bricks on the floor and off the wall taking great care with the cement sheet as the norseman heater was post the supposed end of asbestos but I bought this house off a "cowboy"

Made good

I used the 8 inch gal pipe in the ceiling by running a reflective liner down it - siliconing a pyrex bowl to the top on an adaptor collar and fitting an oyster shell light fitting with the back cut out on the bottom - instant daylight in a dark corner

Three weeks ago my wife told me that her boss (a good friend) was having trouble keeping warm in his new (to him) house in Bredbo as he only had a wood stove (cooker) an open fireplace beside it and some electric oil filled heaters and was popping circuit breakers trying to keep warm.

Got the measurements of the open fire hole - two minute modification to the base of the norseman load it all on the back of the ute (a saga on its own) and slip out to his house while he was away in Adelaide at a meeting - 2 hours later - slow combustion heat (run the flue pipes down the chimney cos you cant do it from below (damhik) and down the Bredbo Inn for dinner and the b***** kitchen was shut

A light beer and a bag of chips really didnt fuel me up for the drive back

Neil