wood burning stove

[Ohyoubadbadkitten]

after literally years of debating whether to go for one or not we had a woodburning stove fitted yesterday and today the chap came to show us how it works. All I can say is 'wow' its warm It looks bloody lovely too! After all that uhmming and ahhing I'm really pleased we went for it.

They're amazing, aren't they? I have two

I think if we had two, we'd end up having to live in shorts and t-shirts
Now deciding what colour to paint the chimney breast as we had our 1970's stone fire place taken out (and boy was it 1970's!)

I had mine fitted last year and it was the best thing we had ever done.

ditto; wood burning stove love-in!

I love mine but yet to fully use it (moving in this month!!) & I can't wait to get it going for the winter. Its an old quarrymans' cottage on a hillside, whitewashed & very very old. Inglenook is original & dates back to 1830!

Enjoy it!

We have a small esse Montrose in the sitting room which is very dinky and also has a flat top so i can make coffee on it! :D

And we have a mahoosive great black wodge of a thing in the other room which works in tandem with the oil range, so either of them can run the ch/hw

...toasty!!

Yankee, that sounds amazing!

Do you reckon I can use my camping kettle on it if there was a power cut?

Ours is a little Charnwood c4. Fits our room beautifully. Would have loved to connect it to the ch, but as we took out our water tank a couple of years ago, we decided we didn't want to puts one back in.

Oh, can you tell me more everyone? What brands do you all have? Did you get it all fitted and supplied by one shop/person or did you get some bits done separately? Do you definitely need a new flue (house is 1920s so obviously did use to have open fires)? Thanks

Is your chimney sweep Hetas registered?If not ask him how he is qualified to judge that about your chimney.We only had ours installed last year and we never had our chimney lined,as it was clay lined it was not needed.When a stove is installed it has to be signed off by a Hetas registered installer or by the building inspector.its an urban myth that all chimneys need lining,you need to consult a registered installer.

Ours did need to be lined. I think I read that houses older than a certain age usually need to as they don't have the liner that more modern houses have < could be wrong>
We had one place do everything including taking out the old fireplace and putting in a bigger opening. They also had to redo the base hearth as the concrete was crumbling before they could put in the new hearth.

Your right there kitten,it was about 1972 that chimneys had to be clay lined,ours was built after that so saved having it lined.
GiveTheAnarchistACigarette,hate to see people ripped off and there are a lot of places that say you have to have the chimney lined just to sell the lining(have you seen the price of that stuff),glad to have been wrong on this occasion.

There's a firefox 8 in my house. I'm still working out how to use it.

LadySybilDeChocolate I found http://www.stovesonline.co.uk/how-to-burn-wood.html how to burn wood very useful when we were wood burner newbies,there certainly is an art to it.

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We have 3, a potbellied stove in the kitchen, one in the playrooom and one in the sitting room. They make the rooms lovely and warm.

Thank you!

Is chimney lining different from having a flue installed?

I think so Edith, my understanding is that a flue is a pipe/chimney to take the smoke away where as the liner lines an existing chimney.

I had a Morso fitted last month and I love it. In fact I have accomplished nothing today as I lit it this morning and have not moved since!

Ah, thanks for clarification oybky. Hmm, i can seen myself forcing myself to feel "cold" just to have an excuse to light it. Anyone got an Eco Ideal as they seem reasonably (well, as much as they can be) priced?

I have a Charnwood Country 8kw with a canopy on it. Not connected to the water system. I had the job lot done by a local HETAS company. The knocked down the plaster to reveal a mahoosive inglenook with original oak beam, disposed of about 10,000 tonnes of stone (okay a bit of exageration but there was a lot!), got a chap in to sanblast it, pointed in lime mortar, new damp membrane & concrete floor, fitted a tiled slate hearth & the stove & fire boarded it.

Looks amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and I'm not sure about the logs as we've yet to properly use it. We bought half a tomme of logs & didn't realise there was a lot of logs! Make sure you have space to store them!