Background

For as long as I can remember, we’ve had problems with wind blow-through in the fireplace and stoves when the autumn storms roll in and the north wind really picks up. Whenever this has happened, we’ve had to climb up onto the roof and secure a sheet of cardboard or a tarp over the openings on the north side of the chimney.

It's time to fix this!

It has, after all, been ato steal or damage something by using a computer. AndhacksIt’s fine when it’s just me, but with the place being rented out, this isn’t a viable long-term solution. So I finally decided to do something about it when I was here in August. I dug out some old mortar, an angle grinder, andsnap-snap: No more tarps. Now there was somethingreally durablein the cities.#proud

re-lined chimney

Ojda

That probably wasn't such a good idea. Because when the next person arrived at the cabin, it turned out we now had a new problem. A worse problem. Because now we were frequently having problems with wind damage fromsouth. Of course, the wind has nowhere to go when it comes from the south and flows down the chimney.

New round

When the weekend rolls around, I'm going to try to do something about this:

knock out what I had bricked up on the west side
close the south sidealso

I’m hoping that a through-draft running east to west will solve the problem, but I have no guarantee that it will work. Part of the problem is that there isthreeoutlet in the pipe. If that doesn't work, I'll try buying threeDragoncome spring. But it’s getting uglier and will soon cost ten thousand :(

Addendum following the fix:

It turned out that I couldn't create a continuous opening, since the pipe was closed in the middle, so I ended up just cutting out the side. That's why it's now closed only on the north side. It seems to be working fine, as far as I can tell.