Check your score to determine your risk levels and understanding on the potential for a fire in your thatched property. By completing the form below and adding up the score can provide a guide to measuring the risk associated with the particularly type of heating installation in your home.
How Well Do You Understand Your Log Burner and Chimney?
| APPLIANCE | |||
| Wood-burning stove (More than 6 years old) | Y | N | + 4 |
| Wood-burning stove (1 to 5 years old) | Y | N | + 3 |
| FLUE | |||
| Not lined with stove | Y | N | + 6 |
| Solid fuel flexible liner | Y | N | +5 |
| Rigid single wall flue pipe | Y | N | + 5 |
| Rigid twin wall insulated flue (more than 11 years old) | Y | N | + 4 |
| Rigid twin wall insulated flue (less than 10 years old) | Y | N | + 2 |
| No knowledge of flue lining age and type | Y | N | + 6 |
| INSULATION | |||
| Clay/pumice solid block liner | Y | N | – 2 |
| Stack vented top & bottom | Y | N | – 2 |
| TERMINATION | |||
| Less than 1800 mm from roof surface | Y | N | + 5 |
| Spark arrestor | Y | N | + 5 |
| No pot no bird guard | Y | N | + 4 |
| Other type of cowl | Y | N | + 4 |
| FUEL | |||
| Unseasoned wood and builders waste | Y | N | + 8 |
| Seasoned wood | Y | N | + 3 |
| Smokeless fuel | Y | N | + 2 |
| Gas/oil Other | Y | N | 0 |
| OTHER | |||
| Tar on inside of flue | Y | N | + 5 |
| Tar on inside of chimney | Y | N | + 5 |
| Chimney / flue not swept regularly | Y | N | + 4 |
| Appliance not serviced regularly | Y | N | + 3 |
| Rope seals damaged / not replaced | Y | N | + 4 |
| Appliance installed incorrectly | Y | N | + 20 |
| Flue system touching / too close to inside brick | Y | N | + 15 |
| Chimney brickwork in poor condition | Y | N | + 5 |
| Clean bird guard fitted | Y | N | – 3 |
| Tar coated spark arrestor | Y | N | +4 |
| Multi-layered thatch (straw) | Y | N | +8 |
| TOTAL Y Score | |||
Total = 0 – 10 Low Risk, 11 – 20 Med Risk, 21 – 30 high Risk, 31 + Very High Risk.
Any don’t knows consider further investigation or add 6 to the score.