They seem to worry about the free flow of smoke and gases. Possible build up of these in the top of stove and escape when door of stove is open. Stove won’t draw as well with rear exit pipe.Why
Log burner trouble
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I've got two wood burners on a shared internal chimney stack. One uses rear flue, one top, the rear one is significantly better, heats the room much better and burns better too.
- Location
- South Devon
No more than 150mm horizontal , to prevent a build up of soot.
- Location
- northumberland
Get a proper size stove for the inglenook, 14kw hunter herald here in the old sandstone inglenook, top flu into thermocrete lined chimney, can hardly stand the heat when it’s running full tilt
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ollie989898
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Get a proper size stove for the inglenook, 14kw hunter herald here in the old sandstone inglenook, top flu into thermocrete lined chimney, can hardly stand the heat when it’s running full tilt
That fireplace could tell some stories I reckon. Looks ace.
diggerjones
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- Location
- South cheshire, audlem
- Location
- northumberland
Was a standard back boiler open fire up until a few years ago, had a chimney fire 1 Tuesday night which set fire to the jackdaws nests in 2 of the unused chimneys in the stack of 4, couldn't touch the bedroom wall where disused chimney was for the heat, firemen said it was 1 of the hottest they'd seen on their thermo cam, internal chimney collapsed with the heat, so ended up pulling old fire out finding the inglenook, lining flu with a balloon tube and pumping full of thermocrete slurry from above which fills every nook and cranny leaving a clean 9" flu once its hard and balloon deflated, then the stove fitted
We've an 8kw Burley, this is it's 10th or 11th year and apart from needing a new fireboard at the back (due to people firing big blocks in to it like missiles
) it's as good as the day it went in.My daughter and son-in-law have just installed a 5kw one in their new house which is just nearing completion, they have it lit already and it's doing an excellent job of saving oil getting the place dried out.
And I'm in the process of working among hands fitting a 5kw one in my small shop unit to replace a couple of electric radiators.
Actually, I consider them excellent value when compared with what else is out there, and a proper BRITISH quality product to boot!
spanners and hammers
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- Location
- cambridgeshire
sorry to jump in .... i am looking to fit a wood burner with back boiler to run some rads , but due to European regs there does not seem to be much choice . any ideas on types left out there and suppliers
Boiler stoves are generally better as multi-fuel.sorry to jump in .... i am looking to fit a wood burner with back boiler to run some rads , but due to European regs there does not seem to be much choice . any ideas on types left out there and suppliers
Building and designing a clean and efficient wood burner with a boiler isn't as simple as wrapping a boiler around the firebox because this will lower firebox temperatures too much and you won't get the secondary burn which both removes a lot of the emissions from the flue gases, and increases the efficiency of the burn.
Apparently some of the stove manufacturers were working on new clean, fuel efficient boiler models a year or two ago but scrubbed them when the government (and The Guardian!
) went on their "burning wood is very naughty" campaign.I suspect that circumstances this year may make it worth the manufacturers efforts to revisit the concept, but for now you'll be looking at older or discontinued models and mostly multi-fuel.
*edit* - sorry, probably worth saying that it's amazing how big an area a wood-only room heat stove will actually heat. Our 8kw Burley comfortably heats the entire house through the winter from a central location, and we don't even have to push it hard to do so. So consider whether you actually need a boiler stove to do your job.
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We’ve just had a Charnwood 5kw fitted, and what size of log are you using to last through the night?
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I’m in exactly the same situation. Heating system was designed to run on wood burner, oil fired boiler or mixture of the two. Never fitted a wood burner at the time due to trying to save a few pennies after almost complete rebuild of our farmhouse. Now struggling to find anything that is the right size/output, doesn’t look like some modern art sculture & don’t need to mortgage my house to buy! Thanks EUsorry to jump in .... i am looking to fit a wood burner with back boiler to run some rads , but due to European regs there does not seem to be much choice . any ideas on types left out there and suppliers
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- Scottish Highlands
This might be the time to mention that planting up those odd corners with a few trees isn't a bad idea. I put some in >25 years ago and they are now heating my house. 25 years may seem a long time but it goes frighteningly quickly!
The major stove manufacturers seem to allocate geographical areas to their dealers so territories don't overlap. But it is well worth shopping around. My wood burner was "re-furbished" from a dealer out of my area that had the boiler replaced. So a virtually new stove at 20% discount.
The major stove manufacturers seem to allocate geographical areas to their dealers so territories don't overlap. But it is well worth shopping around. My wood burner was "re-furbished" from a dealer out of my area that had the boiler replaced. So a virtually new stove at 20% discount.
I'm 15yrs behind you, but even so between thinning and coppicing I should now be pretty much self-sufficient for as long as I'm fit to cut it.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Same here, but fitness is the snag!
hollister
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- Alcester, warks
Good luck trying to find a hetas engineer.
Pita for the chimney sweep as well, also prone to corrosion on the rear exit elbow