Now you think if you had a problem with the top of your fireplace or flue and like us and you had to replace the chimney cowl on your fireplace that it would be a relatively easy thing to do and also to track down the part, not so here in Brisbane without a little bit of work and planning.

It’s getting a bit colder now and so the chimney top replacement has been on the cards for a while and on my to do list, I’m not sure what happened to it at all but there was a couple of the arms of the cowl that had come off.

I got up on the roof to have a look using my brand new extension ladder, I found that the last arm on the cowl was only hanging on with one more weld spot, so the choice was try and fix it or find a replacement for it.

As it is stainless steel and also the base had a fair bit of rust I couldn’t fix it at all as the arms on the cap would probably break again, I haven’t got a welder and also the base was very much rusted as you can see I the pictures.

So, I had to find a new cowl for the chimney top.

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I had my delivery of firewood supplies turn up today, as per usual they were right on time with the load of firewood for me and my family to last a fair way through the colder months.

This is the second year using my local firewood supplier and after loading the wood into the shed it is the same volume as last year for the same price, you can’t complain about that for keeping the family warm.

This time I had to only text through to see when I could get delivery and also how much it was too.

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