Anyone got a woodburning stove?

[Enid]

ours is new. apparently it gives off fumes when you use it for the first couple of times - are they dangerous? does anyone know?

If your main room gets too hot then you should vent the excess heat out (with an extracytor fan and ducting) to your coolest room

Is your chimney within the house or on an outside wall?

every winter we say we are going to get one and never get round to it... really want one though !!

inside wall

the other wall is the kitchen which gets really cold so that should be good

The chimney will keep the whole house lukewarm - we barely need extra heating

Is it a stove you can add a boiler to at a later date (Clearview often can)?

If so it might be worth heating your hot water that way (and save a few pennies)

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we were a bit nervous about doing it at the time

we'll see how it goes this winter -ooh and the chimney runs behind our bedroom wall on the way out - our bedroom is sooooooooo cold we get ice on the inside of our windows..

So if you can run ducting from your lounge to your bedroom (it's upstairs presumably) so it would rise that way anyway

The rooms above should be nicely warm as well

you could add an 8000 btu boiler to the back and then you will be able to have free hot water and maybe a radiator (somewhere near the airing cupboard)

god you're good

you should set up as a consultant

I've been waiting for my central heating for nearly 3 yrs - that's a lot of research.....I can finally afford it (about £4500- of which my stove is £1800)

Now I'm looking in to solar power (for the summer's hot water)

Then it's a wind turbine and I'm away{grin} actaully I'm joking about th eturbine (but not the solar)

dh wants solar

I think he is going mad

It's a really serious proposition

If you have a south or southwest facing roof with an angle of at least 30 degrees and you live further south than Glasgow

You should be able to reduce your summer hot water by a minimum of half (and usually most of it)

You will also gain in the autumn and spring (tho I haven't worked out if you need to drain it in the winter - still researching

don't forget to sweep the chimney regularly - nothing worse than a chimney fire - particularly if you burn less than pristine logs like we do sometimes (DH picked up a load of old doors that they were replacing at work )

I've got to have a new liner - so there's no point sweeping my chimney

If you don't already have one, can I recommend having a soot door installed for the chimney sweep. We don't have one in the room with the stove, but will get one for next years sweeping - much less hassle!

What's a soot door?

We have a hole in the pipe with a cover

That sounds like a soot door but they are usually in the chimney itself as opposed to the pipe.

I only say this as I insisted we had the chimneys swept this year and had a nightmare taking the whole stove and chimney pipe out so the sweep could get access. Ddin't really know about soot doors, but then the little door on the chimney where the boiler is suddenly made a whole lot of sense!

This works fine - he just unscrews 4 screws and shoves it up - no problem

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Don't be naughty Cod - it's a perfectly reasonably thing to say about a chimney sweep and his equipment

Why is he horrid or lovely?

Truly horrid. Has to be seen to be believed. Avoidance of double-entendres is strictly observed in his company.

How much did your woodburners cost?
Has anyone bought a reconditioned one?
Are the ones you can put a kettle on any good or pointless?

You can put a kettle/pot of coffee/ waffle pan on ours - I love it! May roast some chestnuts on it tonight just to make our household sound like something out of Country Life Which of course its not. Looks more like something out of farming weekly.

Can't remember where we got it from but it cost around £800 I seem to recall... some welded steel job - means it will never crack like some of the cast iron ones.

Mine cost £730 new and I'm selling it for about £400 (hopefully) it's a franco belge Savoy and really lovely (I'm only getting a different one because I want to run my central heating)

It's really nice (you like?.....you buy?)

We are going to try a casserole on the top of it next week.....we have done potatoes/nuts/popcorn?