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[MiniMick]

I've just spent 3 days cleaning the living room because I’m a keen DIY’r but most of all to be perfectly honest a miser. We had a bit of a chimney fire the other day so it must be time to sweep the chimney me thought, so out with the gear most importantly I put the hoover out side and ran the hose through a window (just in case). Of I set singing chim chiminy listening to all that soot falling until my son came in and said have you seen the soot coming in through the window. Oh dear I thought the filters broken and the soot is going everywhere I did chuckle and how my wife laughed when she came in from work. One thing though it sure tested the Bissell cleaner and I’d recommend one to anyone, moral of the story don’t by a cheap hoover?

[Bungle]

or its best to get someone in to sweep your chimney

[MiniMick]

or its best to get someone in to sweep your chimney

Now you tell me Doh!

[Silicon Skum]

I can also recomend NOT putting all the soot in your wheelie bin......unless you REALLY want to pee off your bin men. I know from experience!

I was doing a little work on my house, and I cleared out the chimney breast in what used to be the kitchen, back in the victorian times. There was a good deal of soot from the many many years of coal fires - the kitchen was originally fitted with a coal fired range - and even after the rage was removed, a coal fire was installed (and used to heat the hot water up daily for MANY years - infact I had to remove the back boiler as well, it was still in there!). Once I finished removeing the old bricks, I had to sweep up the HUGE ammounts of soot, too heavy for bin bags, too much for small plastic shopping bags.......so I just swept it up and dumped it straight in the wheelie bin... and half filled it!

Picture the scene: I warm summer morning, a slight breeze in the air and bin day. Bin men hook the bin onto the back of the bin truck and dump the contents straight into the back............and then I hear a lot swearing! I look outside and see what looks remotely like an atomic cloud in the back lane - all black and mushroom shaped, drifting up skywards. There was also the sound of choking binmen. OOPS!

It prolly didn't help that I'd hidden a few bricks in there too, I susspect that may have helped stir up the dust.


Ahh well, serves 'em right for the time they did the bins at 7.30Am - just after I got in from a 12hour Night shift and got to sleep at 6am...


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[Bungle]