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The Chimney Balloon is installed at the top of your chimney. Just use a standard clothes hanger to hang it from your fireplace damper handle – no tools necessary! A:This is highly dependent on where you are having your chimney Draught Stopper delivered to. Most metropolitan areas are between 2 and 5 days.
Well, it’s for customers to decide which is the preferable product to suit their requirements. Sinead Hoben has written a very thorough account of her journey through chimney draught busting, from her own DIY chimney draught excluder (caused damp) to finding chimney balloons online, to looking for an alternative to the balloon, to finding the Chimney Sheep, to trying out a balloon for comparison. A:With this being a DIY product, we cannot provide an installation warranty. The installation process is outside of our control. A:The manufacturerguarantees the foam for 12 months. However, We have been using this product without issue for well over a decade.Fitting a Chimney Balloon to an open chimney is like fitting the gap with double glazing. The Chimney Balloon is designed to inflate and push against all four walls of the chimney, holding itself firmly in place. There is a small vent in the side of the product which allows some airflow, permitting your chimney to “breathe”.
If you have a top-sealing damper there should be a chain with a handle located to the side of the firebox. Pulling this lever will open and close the damper. As we mentioned above, a one size fits all approach doesn’t work when it comes to a Chimney Balloon. you’ll need to measure your chimney then select the most appropriate size. If you accidentally leave the pillow in place and start a fire, it instantly shrivels, deflates and bursts, allowing all the fumes to exit the chimney. Fold blankets instead of rolling for storage if possible so they maintain their shape better when stored away.
The Chimney Balloon is made from plastic, and is designed to be inflated, using a pump or by blowing into a pipe, to fill the chimney and prevent cold air from coming in and warm air from travelling up and out. A chimney balloon is designed to be placed in your chimney to help prevent heat loss i.e. warm air from escaping your home, as well as the formation of draughts i.e. cold air from making its way into your home. Temporary – All balloons deflate over time. The instruction with a Chimney Balloon is to re-inflate it every few months. In all the years the ecoMaster team has been talking to homeowners about the “success” of their Chimney Balloon there was only ONE homeowner who actually got on their hands and knees and did actually re-inflate it every three months. If your chimney is open and does not have a cap on top of it, we strongly recommend that you place some kind of protection over the opening so bugs and debris don’t fly into it. As with any good thing, Chimney Balloons require some work to keep them in top condition. The most important consideration is that they are stored flat – never rolled up or bent into a tight shape. This will avoid creases and kinks which can then cause damage to the balloon when you’re trying to use it again (see below).
When our kids are older I’d like a wood burner but until then our chimney is just a source of wasted heat. So I started looking into what was available. I came across chimney sheep* & a chimney balloon* which you can buy, put in your chimney and blow up. When you want to use the fire you just deflate it. You can reuse it many times over so quite thrifty already. This made me wonder if I needed to buy it or if I could make my own. Wear safety glasses and look inside the chimney to locate the place you are going to install the pillow.Insertthe pillow in the proper location, being careful not to allow it to scrape the sides of the chimney.This allows you to reduce heat loss as much as possible and is especially useful if your central heating is currently turned on. Alternatives to Chimney Balloons
There's actually a handy how-to video and a useful installation guide you can take a peek at if you need a little bit more guidance. Select an area that has no interference from any chimney hardware or the damper flap and is 6-inches in height and where the walls have texture for the pillow to grab onto when inflated so it stays in place.Ideal locations are usually in the bottom portion of the smoke shelf or slightly above the chimney damper. Before the Chimney Draught Stopper, there was a range of interesting products and solutions for stopping chimney draughts . Each of them had various levels of success, or non-success, as the case may be.
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Energy Efficiency – Heating costs are reduced by up to 60%, which means fewer trips outside in the dead of winter. If you have used one of your balloons but want to keep using it over time rather than buying another one, wash and dry it at least once every few months. By cutting out draughts, you can keep your home nice and cosy. You will also use less heating, which is a win win: reducing your bills and helping the planet. The climate is changing due to emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from human activity, and heating buildings currently accounts for more than a third of the UK’s emissions. So when would you buy a Chimney Balloon? If you accidentally light a fire with the Chimney Balloon in situ, it will instantly shrivel and fall out. If you light a fire with the Chimney Sheep in place, the fire will smoulder and not draw properly, and it’s fire retardant so it won’t burst into flames, which is fine with an open fire but to be honest the Chimney Balloon is a safer bet for gas fires. The Chimsoc by the way, being made of PVC, will withstand more heat and expand until it pops or burns and releases hydrogen chloride gas. Sinead Hoben’s independent review
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