Morris Minor 1000 restoration

The strip down continues... Engine & front panel next...

Prity woodburner, lining the flue

After a couple of weekends vainly hoping that the 100yr old chimney would still be useable, we finally resorted to fitting a stainless steel liner... Only to discover that the flue was still blocked, so another couple of hours hacking upwards from the cellar & through holes made in the chimney breast, we finally got all the old bricks & bits of birds nest out. Fitting the liner itself wasn't too difficult although a bit hairy feeding it in from the top as so many of the bricks in the top of the stack are loose...
The next step is how to sort the mess that is the chimney stack...

Sandwich Whitemill Windmill Museum

The continuing saga of the oil tank noved a little closer to resolution over the last couple of weekends...

Two concrete pads to support the stand for the new oil tank... this one will be enclosed....

Prity wood burner & the flue...

With the wood burner installed & the system filled we're left with a couple of small leaks & the question of weather to fit a pump into the hot water circuit....
However the flue is a whole other problem... the existing brick flue is no longer smoke-tight despite all attempts to find & fix the leaks... the morter is obviously so badly deteriorated in places we cant see...
Two choices... line the flue or install an external flue, the latter is second choice at the moment as there are bound to be some obscure anal regulation to comply with, so we decided to investigate the stainless liner option, first problem was cost... that aside, we began to investigate the route it would have to take... this is where this weeks problems began... a 5" dia pipe had been previously installed in the lower part of the chimney (probably when the lounge fire place was sealed?)
As we went further up & began to look at the stack itself the full horror of the problem revealed itself...

Finding a foothold was one of the problems

No tools required!!