Chimney Sheep alternatives

[LemonSwan]

They are so expensive and we have way too many chimneys! 6 to be exact.

What can I use instead? I found a roll of loft insulation for £30 but will this just breakdown and leave shreds everywhere?

And they have a chain that hangs down , with a little tag on the end that says "Don't ewe.... forget about me"

Did you name change to post that @hassletassle

And @ShaunaTheSheep

You just can’t make this thread up 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

All we need is @ chimneytampon to arrive. If your out there 👋

So a chimney tampon, then?

Should have read on 😂

I definitely prefer the name to what came out when dp's dad was trying to describe one.

Fireplace tampon.

We had a chimney cat once, well I did, but for various reasons I had to temporarily move in to my mum's for a short time and of course Chimney Cat (and non-chimney cat) came with me. Chimney Cat was, of course, mainly white, like Chimney Sheep - all Chimney animals are white I believe, it's mandatory in order to show the cleanliness of your chimney and prove they are performing their function satisfactorily.

At first Chimney Cat would charge up mum's chimney with great gusto, and emerge again after much scrabbling, a nasty shade of black. However, we were delighted to witness the gradual diminution of colour change between disappearance and reappearance over the course of a couple of months. In the end the soot was barely distinguishable on her when she came down after another expedition.

One of the last times she went up, she scrabbled about up there furiously and protractedly before coming down again. As she was not particularly dirty when she came down we wondered whether she was just ensuring that she got those last tiny bits - so easy to miss - but after a few minutes there came a slipping and a sliding and an old dessicated birds' nest came down along with a dead and dessicated blackbird.

We reckon that was why she went up in the first place and nothing at all to do with doing her damn job...

We used an ordinary bin bag stiffed with loft insulation to block the one in our bedroom.

Stuffed not stiffed.

You need to get the sheep just for the tag.

Actually this is a better nc.

However in MN fashion I have to call out this stealth brag 😅

Please don’t ruin this thread with your FACTS.

Chimney sheep wool furever (yes, I do make myself laugh actually…) in my head be white sheep trained to climb up chimneys, whose wool gently buffs old ash from the inner walls this turning it black (so you know they did the job correctly) and is a great way to keep unwanted sheep in gainful employment until they retire. Mary Poppins had six of them. #notafact

A big load of old bubble wrap worked for me in our old house.

Bahahahaha

I am chuckling away muttering about sheep, cats, tampons and dessicated birds.

DP thinks I have lost the plot 😭

Apologies for the thread hijack but on a similar note, does anyone have a suggestion as to how to cover my bathroom extractors (when they're not in use obvs) to stop draughts? They're literally a hole in the wall covered on the outside by thin plastic that flaps about in the wind 🥶

We've got chimney sheep, we got them when we bought our sheep wool insulation for under the floors.
We had a chimney balloon before but it popped. We also had old pillows in a plastic bag before but the chimney sheep are cleaner and easier to remove for sweeping etc.
Our main fireplace has a cast iron damper which is the best but was part of the original fireplace.