WEEK 3 - Day 9 Dismantling the section of a flue

Another damp day in our variable summer. Work continued with site preparations. Our former galvanised fencing is now inside the contractors' site boundary, so it is being dismantled.

The area around Stove House 5 is also being cleaned to allow access for the scaffolding team. They will erect their scaffold around the walls of the stove house, strengthening and supporting the walls to allow working access for dismantling the building later in the schedule of works. This will be the most dramatic part of the works.

Stove House 5 utilised an older chimney to carry away fumes from the fires lit below the salt pan. However, because the chimney was originally built for use with a fishery salt pan it is some way from Stove House 5 and required the construction of an overground flue. The smoke and fumes were drawn to the chimney by the use of an electric fan. A section of this flue has been dismantled today to provide clear access to the SW corner of the building. The materials have been stored on pallets and stored for re-erecting when Stove House 5 is rebuilt next year.

Removing the brick walls from the overground flue between the SW corner of Stove House 5 and the chimney. The metal plates forming the base of the flue are heavily corroded with the effects of salt transfer through the flue. The metal feature attached to the wall is a damper to regulate the flow of hot air through the flue. The pipe work bottom right is the brine pipe carrying brine from the pump to the brine storage tank located on the north side of Stove House 5.