In message <rb7nfa$1l21$ snipped-for-privacy@gioia.aioe.org>, at 09:36:58 on Wed, 3 Jun
2020, Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk> remarked:
The children only touch it once. Part of their education.
There's been a fire in our cottage ever since it was built. Now the flames are contained in a metal box, and the exhaust goes up an insulated pipe, it's probably at less risk.
Andy
yep
The farm manager who farms the land around me, is also the fire chief ....99% of the thatch fires are from old chimneys that are unlined with blown pointing.
a very few are from chimney fires that shoot sparks up and have them landing on the thatch itself. Usually the thatch is too damp in winter when that happens. But blown pointing allows hpt gases out over long periods and dries the thatch.
If when you re thatch you put fireproof board down and line all chimneys and push the pots to about 1.5m above the thatch then you are probably safer than a traditional fire in a normal building.
*I had the outer wall of a London Flat glowing red hot from an open fire....back in the day.
things
Reaching out and touching is one thing, <ouch><quickly retracts hand>
but small children aren't that steady on their feet and may wobble putting out a hand to steady themselves. A hand that cannot be retracted quickly and may have some weight behind it...
that's why some sort of fireplace surround is advisable
The outer casing is really rather hot. Even a glancing touch can be a second degree burn. Your approach is far too Darwinian in this case.
We used to have cherry-red coke-burning pot-belly stoves in some classrooms at school, never did us any harm (same can't be said for the rubber soles of our shoes though)
It is powered by the thermal gradient between the very hot top of the stove and the merely warm air above it. TEC = Thermo Electric Cooler A pedant might insist that I should have said Peltier device.
In this application they are run backwards to convert a thermal gradient into electric current which powers a small fan moving air across a finned heatsink.
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11:40:01 >They'll be careful not to wobble near to such a heat source in future.
The Gazco gas fires with balanced flues are claimed to be nearly
90% efficient. But you need an expensive flue.
Only if you have installed a silly decorative fuel effect fire. One of those daft things with flames bouncing on a bed of sand (and needing a class 1 chimney).
Not only for the young. An unsteady person of any age tripping or falling towards a log-burning stove which has no wire guard risks not only a bad burn, but possible fractures. Stoves are essentially unmovable and have quite sharp edges at the sort of height a falling body would contact. We put up a guard for the grandchildrens' sake, but I'm tending towards leaving it in place.
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