How We Do Our Annual Multi-Fuel Stove Maintenance ft. Valiant Fireside

[@TheMan1510]

Your channel has the best music!!!

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

That's all my partner seb

[@MadMonk_]

Hi Jasmine..... When cleaning the flue - one tip would be to tie a string to the brush, then drop the string down the flue..... This will allow you to pull all the soot down into the fire box.... Or you could do it the other way..... drop the string down the flue, then tie it brush and pull up and out the top of the flue...... Either way, do this before you vacuum out the firebox lol - spotted the deliberate mistake !!!

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Thank you :)

[@stevepettifer4896]

Best thing I've found for cleaning the glass on my wood burner (land-based!) is scrunched up newspaper, moistened and dipped in some ash. That removes built up crud really well. Just need a to use a damp cloth to remove the residue afterwards.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

i do that too ! this was much easier than that tbh

[@frankquevedo6001]

Ahoy& Merrie Christmas to all those aboard the ‘ This Narrowboat Adventure (TNA). I agree with Ms. Lawson, the gritty end of a paper towel, works wonders. Apply after your fire has cooled, especially the glass, and ¡violà! Relight n enjoy a clean , & clear fire!

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Paper towel ? I'm not a real grown up yet that's not something i have

[@owencarlstrand1945]

On the glass of our wood burner I always use the kitchen hob scraper and then rub the glass down with scrumpled up newspaper, works a treat.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

What is a kitchen hob scraper ?

[@owencarlstrand1945]

ThisNarrowboatAdventure. One of these. www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deltahouseandhome.com%2Fimages%2Fstellar-kitchen-glass-hob-scraper-p3033-5990_image.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deltahouseandhome.com%2Fhomewares-c7%2Fkitchenwares-c159%2Fstellar-kitchen-glass-hob-scraper-p3033&docid=7HMFCXoA8JNi6M&tbnid=TEEQvv_lVf735M%3A&vet=10ahUKEwiK38Ll9d_mAhUoyIUKHZryDasQMwijAigJMAk..i&w=1000&h=1000&itg=1&hl=en-gb&client=safari&bih=697&biw=1112&q=kitchen%20hob%20scraper&ved=0ahUKEwiK38Ll9d_mAhUoyIUKHZryDasQMwijAigJMAk&iact=mrc&uact=8

[@rbagrizzly]

We have a glass front(clear ceramic) on or wood burning stove at home and when we asked the dealer what they sold to clean the glass they said we can sell you a cleaner but nothing works better than taking some of the ash from the stove and mixing it with water to form a paste, dip in a damp cloth and use this compound to clean the glass. Works great and it's free! Something to think about.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Yes I've done that too this worked better

[@SamSitar]

your cleaning is very thorough.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Thank you!

[@wiltsrocket7147]

Lovely Music 👍

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

I'll let seb know

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Thank you :)

[@MrVinnyh]

Looks better Jasmine, I use a cheap supermarket Kitchen surface cleaner for the glass. 👍

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Thank you :)

[@colmornane5684]

Hi Jasmin and Zac, It is Christmas day here in Aus, I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year, Happy Cruising, look forward to loads more great videos. A Fan from Aus.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Merry Christmas to you too cal

[@Bicyclehub]

This is a great video. Lots of useful information and I liked that all the work was speeded up with beautiful accompanying guitar music. The first theme was haunting. You don't need a droning commentary with this, just a fun demonstration of what needs doing. Keep up the good work Jasmin and Ben and Squeak.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

No one wants to watch how long this took in real timw

[@hughcarson6837]

Been a while, nice to see you vloging again

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Thanks I'm trying to stay on top of it but not always managing

[@thomasolsson8816]

Lovely video. Thanks for cheering.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

No worries :)

[@t1n4444]

Interesting vlog J. Intrigued as to renewing rope to inside of chimney boss tho'. No need to have rope to inside. Simply work from outside ( a dry day naturally 😁). A lot easier to get to. Dig out the old rope and sealer or cement between top of flue pipe and collar. Vacuum up crud, wipe off. Chimney will probably move a little bit so wedge with bits of kindling wood to keep as central as possible. Apply the squidgy black heat proof/resistant sealant around inside of collar and around flue. Press in suitably sized rope and tamp down with end of bit of kindling. Apply more sealant to over rope and build up so rope encapsulated in sealant. Smooth off. Allow to cure. Advantage of using flexible sealant compared to fire cement is it won't crack (and easily smoothed off). The idea is merely to hold flue in position and keep moisture running down flue. Most important is keeping exhaust gases from entering boat. If you have an internal rope sealing "ring" as well as then any condensate/water can be trapped and cause rusting to flue over time. Glass; if it's not cracked but just crazed then don't bother replacing, unless of course you "must " see flames. Another way of cleaning glass is to use a wad of very damp newspaper and simply scrub away deposits. The soot particles act as a sort of "cream" cleaner. You never know if the propellant used in pressurised spray cand are "properly" green. Black sooty marks to inside merely indicates the fire not hot enough ... easily fixed by opening air intakes and burning off until glass clean again. Excellent wheeze with polythene sheet, face mask and open door. The chemicals wafting off the heat proof paint as it dried/cures are most definitely not to be inhaled. Those magnetic temperature gauges give a minimum best temperature for burning fuel. If too "cold" when burning wood the gasses condense on inside of flue at top end and chimney and form combustible coating. Flue gets too hot and danger of fire caused by cruddy stuff (from wood not burning hot enough). Lastly, might be worth mentioning that a lot of areas contain smoke control zones and wood burning, repeat wood burning, stoves "should" be DEFRA approved. These stoves have an extra tertiary burning space to firmer reduce the particulates. Google if arsed. Fuel "should" be seasoned wood. Multifuel stoves should be burning smokeless coal nuggets and dry wood. Burning paper with kindling only. It may be CRT are obliged to add another section to BSS to comply with Local Authority regs ref smoke and particulate emissions. Basically an excellent notion by J to keep stove as clean as.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

I did mention smoke control fuel in how to light a fire video I think, this was about maintenance, not fuels. we will do the rest of the job at some point....

[@t1n4444]

@@ThisNarrowboatAdventure Fuels predicate the degree of maintenance tho'. The cleaner the fuels, as in low sulphur, smokeless nuggets or less than 20% moisture content timbers then the less maintenance you end up doing (keeping flue and chimney swept and internal fire ropes, say). I gather next year the law ref clean air/reduction in air pollution will mandate the use of permitted fuels (no coal or even damp timbers) and advise regular maintenance.

[@altacat9702]

Your boat looks so pleasant with the fire burning : ) ... perfect !! ....my daughter loves your cat !!

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Thank you

[@mattelderca]

All the best of the season, Thanks for adding to my much loved canal content! Cheers,

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Thank you :)

[@UrbanHomesteadMomma]

I would think it this would work the same on your stove as on the old wood stove I had... to clean the glass, dip the edge of a damp rag in the soot and scrub the glass with the sooty corner of the rag... it’s just enough grit to get the glass clean but not enough to scratch... works amazingly well 🙂 The stove looks great by the way 👍

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

yea i do that too this was much easier to be honest.

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

Now that's what you call fighting fire with fire.

[@julesstone7990]

what a beautiful cat :) x

[@wsatnutter9674]

happy new year and job well done

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

thank you happy new year to you too

[@stephenlittle7534]

They do say Baking Soda and Viniger works wonders on glass. Have you tried to get a gadget that turns heat to charge your phone or note book or pad. Look it up on KZbin he he. Good job on showing us the hard work to be done on the stove. Keep Warm and have a Great Christmas when it comes. 😃😃🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Hi there I have a friend with one it doesn't work to well for them

[@mischef18]

Great video and lovely to see you again. All the very best over the silly season to you both from a 25c NZ

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

hi ken, thats rather warm!

[@mischef18]

We have had about 2 months of around 30c so that was a cooler day. With the onset of autumn it will cool down, well maybe, today is forecast for 27

[@insertnamehere6018]

What a monster of a job. Well done

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Thank you marlis :)

[@nathanberry4339]

i use sodium bicarbonate hot water fairy liquid and vinegar let it sit and it saves sooooo much scrubbing

[@silashouse1054]

HI, it's been a wail since I have dropped you a line, I am still coming back to the UK very soon and still contemplating your advice that I should bring Molly back with me, (MY CAT) buy a forty mill scraper the blade is very sharp!! Be careful. this will scrape through burnt material on the Fire Glass. Then polish it up with window lean cleaner. Kaiora... John in NZ

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

The cleaning solution did well without a blade

[@nickbernstein]

If you're planning on replacing the glass, you should look into getting a buffing adapter for a cordless drill and hitting it with some glass polishing compound. Might work, and it would be a lot cheaper, I'd imagine.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

i dont no if it would be cheaper, we would have to rent a generator and walk it home to run the drill

[@gillywild]

Lovely music :)

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

thanks that my partner seb

[@MartyLJ57]

I hope you were singing the chimney sweep song from Mary Poppins Chin, chimera,

[@loft306]

Marty Jeruzal 😆

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

I missed out i will go sweep the chimney again now so i can

[@frankquevedo6001]

P.S. Mr. Jeruzal’s correct. You really should sing, with gusto, “Chim chim cher-ee! 🧐👌🏽

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

hehehe I missed a trick

[@matthewgordon-clark2392]

Jasmine, looks like a lot of hard work, but the stove looks beaut. Bet the cat is happy that it is in use again?

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

We had it off only for a day

[@moments007]

Some people are replacing their stoves with diesel heaters because they are cleaner and more cost efficient.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Im not sure i agree that they are cleaner, but since i have both i can say that the multifule makes the boat warmer and doesn't require electricity

[@t1n4444]

Hmm, now when you say cost efficient I take it you mean as in the "running" of a diesel stove? Quite correct and the stoves can be run on different oils, not just diesel. Central heating oil or kerosene or paraffin will be suitable. Central heating oil was around 50p per litre in Q1 2019. However, if you factor in the cost of buying a stove and then the cost of installing said stove and then the engineering required to comply with current BSS regs, or having a separate fuel tank and possibly a day tank, then the pay back time may be quite a bit longer than you might have hoped for even when burning the cheaper alternative fuels. If, as an example against a diesel stove, we consider ambient temperature then anything lower than neg 9C might mean the stove won't work because the fuel might wax up. The cloud point is higher than the wax point so you might get issues there too if the fuel is passing through a filter to the exterior of a boat. On the other hand a solid fuel stove just "works". Basically you can burn just about anything and keep warm, and heat up food and boil a kettle. (I say "can" but you would still be expected to comply with smokeless zones.) It is prudent to give yourself as many options to heat a boat as possible and having a diesel (or LPG) c/h boiler for both water and space heating, plus a solid fuel stove, plus an immersion heater ( if on shore power) and lastly the "waste heat" from the diesel engine just about covers it. There are a couple of lady boaters who do their own vlog and at this very moment are engaged in the planning stages ref having a diesel stove installed. (You may be sure that they have received plenty of "advice" from both sides do to speak ...) It seems that merely finding an installer, for marine use, is not that simple. As mentioned earlier complying with BSS regs is dependent on how your own particular boat is constructed. Some installs may be easy and some definitely not. If interested have a squint at the BSS regs, sections 2 and 8. For example, protection from leaking fuel lines is but one facet (of several) and the BSS inspector guy will have to satisfy himself that fuel and fuel vapours cannot enter the bilges, say. Another example is that all fuel lines must be easily inspected and have isolator valves easily reached, for obvious reasons. In short you may end up spending a "lot" of money to save "some" money. Stretching a point it may make your boat less attractive to future buyers if they don't buy into having diesel oil/fuel oil lines running throughout the living space.

[@paulmaynard408]

Only disappointment was you had no sound during your chimney sweep. Would have been a funny dialogue by the looks of it 😄

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

It was speed up so would have sounded really weird.

[@greghilton7797]

Great job Jasmine. Did you get any soot through the rest of the boat. Merry Chtistmas

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Not a lick

[@johnbelcher7955]

Hiya Jasmine, I have had a pot belly stove for many years, just got my first eco fan from Lidl's for £20 that seems very good value! If you know anyone who is after one feel free to pass on the info, but I am unsure sure how long before they will remain on the shelves!? 😊 John

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

I actually don't recommend the free standing out generally as i used to know mind off the fire all the time it drive me mad! that's why i like the one we have that magnets of the stove flue

[@wrinklyrider]

Great, If the youtube thing doesn't work out, you can always a job as a Chimney Sweep.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Haha this isn't my job!

[@ianmangham4570]

Crazy YOU TUBE algorithm keeps sending me your vids from 3 year's ago smh 🇬🇧🙋‍♂️

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

thank you youtube gods!

[@ghost307]

I think you mean '...our annual multi-fuel...'.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

I did thank you

[@bobflinn7529]

Video could stand a bit of light to make it more clear as to what you were doing.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

its a bit of a dark corner sorry!

[@hamshackleton]

Have you been sampling the falling-down water, while you were editing? :-)

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Thanks for letting me know I'm dyslexic so didn't realise

[@hamshackleton]

@@ThisNarrowboatAdventure - sorry, didn't know that. I hope you weren't offended. That wasn't my intention.

[@coffeefish]

Such a fine lady.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

thanks coffee fish

[@paulayala4816]

I don't see any dancing like in the movies. Curious if there are people or companies who could take care of this for you?

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Yes there is, but why pay some one to do something you can do your self?

[@miketipping1583]

Can you proofread your title please?

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

Thank you for letting me know!! I'm dyslexic

[@miketipping1583]

@@ThisNarrowboatAdventure me too, but ever since I was told off for bad spelling by a cleaner at a student magazine I worked on I make sure I spell check before I publish or send anything. Install gramerley and it'll do it for you.

[@miketipping1583]

And should be 'our' not 'out'.

[@jrc8466]

Regarding the spelling in the video title, what have you been putting in the eggnog?

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

I'm dyslexic sorry bout it

[@jrc8466]

@@ThisNarrowboatAdventure I didn't know that. My apologies.

[@paulsmith6184]

After looking at your title for the video, may I recommend you never apply for a job as an English teacher,

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

ah dyslexia my old friend strikes again!

[@tim040]

Advertising channel, don't believe a word you say. Write ADVERTIEMENT in big letters so as to not waste people's time.

[@Bicyclehub]

That's unkind.

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

I think i have been pretty straightforward in saying the deal I have with valiant, they don't pay me to say anything they send me to stuff to use and review. I clearly use their products as you can see in the video, I do get a kickback if you buy from them but the people buying also get 25% off and I think that's brilliant.I genuinely like most of their products I've used and have been truthful and said when I don't.