One day late in the year I noticed that the fire rope that seals the door of my wood burner was coming loose. Oh dear! What to do? How do you fix something like that? It is a bit of a strange environment on the inside of the wood burner. But that evening, Miles popped over for a cup of tea, and he is the sort of person to have dealt with that sort of issue before. He said you can just buy fire resistant glue for this exact purpose. That was useful advice. I ordered it that same evening! And in the days before it arrived, I just used the log burner with a dangly seal.
And then the time came to actually use this glue! How good would it be? The instructions said you needed to first keep the two surfaces pressed together for 15 minutes, and then let the heat of a fire inside the wood burner set the glue. I didn't quite have enough clamps to keep it all perfectly in position for 15 minutes, but it seemed to be good enough. And the fire did the rest.
When I had a look the next day it looked like it had worked! And I still have more of that glue. If it comes off again I'll repeat the procedure. These things one learns when one owns a house! And things in it. I am ready again for lots of lovely fires…
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| Seal coming off... |
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| cleaned and glued |
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| Fire doing its glue setting work |
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| Sorted! |
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