Exactly. It's an old house with thick stone wall. A few years back the=20
previous owners decided to add a fireplace in a corner where there was=20
no chimney. So, the chosen solution was a new steel chimney going from=20
the fireplace, through the wall and up outside the building. The problem=20
is that they made the hole by drilling through the stones just enough=20
for the chimney diameter. They were confident enough to think that it's=20
was certainly a stone-only wall and didn't even bother to take a look=20
into it nor to put some insulation around it (when the Police asked for=20
reasons the man said "why we should have?").
Well, just below the hole, just a few cm away there was an old wooden=20
girder from a previous (now hidden) door. The result was that every time=20
we lit up a fire there was a strange smell that I always thought that=20
was a fireplace fault (in fact it was wood slowly consuming itself,=20
having no oxygen in the wall). Then, as in Russel's case, the day I made=20
a fire just bigger than usual the girder really took fire and the=20
resulting smoke spread all around the house, passing through every wall.
We discovered it soon enough and what was damaged was just the wall we=20
had to pierce to estinguish fire. It could have been really bad. Imagine=20
at night, everyone sleeping, CO all around, fire............

Now we just need put some insulation and close the hole. We've been=20
lucky, in the past it was not uncommon dying this way...

Il 03. 04. 15 09:45, Ryan O'Connor ha scritto:
> Wow the fire was inside a wall? That's strange. Was it an electrical
> fire? How serious was the damage? You might need to replace some of
> your building, not just to remove the burnt smell but to repair its
> structural integrity.
>
> Ryan

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