My sister lives in a Glasgow tenement and in the shared entrance hall there is an arch with what looks like a cast iron hatch in it (maybe 10x12"?).
Any thoughts on what it is? Chimney access?
Tim
Would not be a chimney in that location unless there was a fireplace under the arch at one time. In any case those access hatches were exterior where sealing was less of an issue. You will have to open it up!
Is there a chimney above that arch? If so its probably access to a soot sump.
Mike
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Yes, chimney access and yes it is in the middle to access both sides although I've never understood why they didn't just put one on each wall.
On one side will likely be a kitchen (range chimney) and the other will likely be a bedroom or lounge fireplace.
What I've never understood is why they are only present at the base of the first floor's property chimneys, I've never seen one in the solum under the ground floor or at higher levels.
The chimneys aren't shared, they run separately up the stack.
On 30 Mar 2015, fred grunted:
Yes, in the roof space of my Mum's old house - where I grew up - there's an identical-looking hatch in the chimney breast, right down to the little handle in the middle (to enable the hatch to be lifted up slightly and off (it has a couple of lugs on the back). It's in a bizarre horizontal dog- leg section of chimney.
On 30 Mar 2015, fred grunted:
Yes, in the roof space of my Mum's old house - where I grew up - there's an identical-looking hatch in the chimney breast, right down to the little handle in the middle (to enable the hatch to be lifted up slightly and off (it has a couple of lugs on the back). It's in a bizarre horizontal dog- leg section of chimney.
If the chimneys aren't shared, how does it give access to both stacks without allowing fumes from one chimney to potentially cross over to the other flat? Just curious.
Tim
If it really is iron it's most likely something to do with the chimneys. Otherwise they'd use wood.
Bill
Good question, it made me look at it again and reminded me of its true purpose.
This sketch should make it clearer:
If you look at the property from the outside you will see that there is only a stack on one side of the close, shared by all 8 properties.
In all except the ground floor property furthest from the stack (GND LFT in the example), they share a common wall which contains the stack and the 8 flues.
In the case of the GND LEFT, there is no access to that wall as the higher properties bridge the close. The arch you showed houses a bridge to carry the flue from that property into the main stack. It is an arch rather than a horizontal to support the flue bridge brickwork and accommodate a slight rise in the flue across the bridge. The soot door that you showed allows access to clear soot out from that semi-horizontal section when the chimney is swept (from above).
The arrangement could of course be reversed left to right in other properties. Ranges were common in the kitchens, accommodated in open arches so it's a miracle that there was enough room for the flues at all with all those gaps. Not many original ranges left now.
Thanks for sewing the seeds of doubt, I had forgotten all of this.
Cheers. So the hatch only serves a single chimney, the one with a swept bend to allow it to cross to the other side of the hall. That makes a lot more sense.
Please though, NEVER use that fecking horrible imagebam for sharing pictures again. It's a nightmare on a mobile device. Dropbox works well for me. Thank you. ;-)
Tim
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On the other hand, it doesn't require cookies to be accepted, autoredirect, javascript or flash to be enabled and it doesn't attempt to blap my pics to facebook with the slightest excuse. Given that and the easy upload, I'd say it's a keeper.
Tinypic used to hold the prize but uploads are now captcha verified and you require automatic redirection enabled to view pics, even on so called direct links.
The first one was a png btw, this is a jpg, any difference?
Why would changing the image help? It's all the fecking redirection to App Store and other pop-ups that are the problem.
Genuine question, is/was there a problem with the Dropbox link that I shared at the start? I thought Dropbox was pretty clutter-free for image sharing but as I have an account maybe I don't see what others see.
Tim
As you didn't explain what the problem was, I had no way of knowing.
Good, now you have explained what the problem is on your platform. That's not something that affects me here so again I would have no way of knowing what you were experiencing.
For downloading, I get an annoying invitation to open an account that needs cancelled on each visit.
For uploading, I chose not to open a dropbox account in order to post an image.
Why don't you open it and send a pic?
A) it's not my flat B) it's probably about 10 ft above the floor C) a satisfactory explanation has already been offered.
I second that.
Intrigued, I clicked on the first imagebam link and the picture came up immediately on FireFox, surrounded by mainly white space. However I have Adblock+.
So I then disabled this to see how bad things normally are. The picture came up as before, but then my PC froze while loads of ad material downloaded, as I shown in the status bar, but my screen would not refresh. After at least five minutes I gave up waiting and worrying that malware may be installing, and used Windows Task Manager to close down FireFox.
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