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Drying wood.
I'm getting a mf stove installed next week. I've started getting some good but very wet oak from a nearby wood. My question is I've a garage that is centrally heated(don't ask) how long would the oak take to dry out in there before it is usable in the stove? Garage is probably a few degrees less than room temperature. The…
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Storage heaters - should they be left on all the time?
I'm completely new to storage heaters, and switched mine on for the first time on Monday. I'm on Off-Peak A tariff with Southern Electric, with 2 meters. I was just wondering if the storage heater should be left on all the time, or if I should switch it off during the day? The instruction manual didn't make it very clear.…
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log burner fitting
was looking at buying a log burner, but the quotes I was given for supply and fitting where stupidly expensive, minimum was 2 k and I still had to do most of the building work anyway, my inlaws have bought me a log burner that just has to be fitted, at the moment I have a 6 inch gas flue, which I know cant be used, so my…
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Wood that you should not burn ?
I am quite anal about what goes in my stove and have been able to source whiskey barrel lids from a cooperage which I cut up.They are either American Oak or European Oak and are so much better than logs in my opinion. My friend has a small furniture business and has just given my three sacks of off cuts.Some is great…
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LPG - renew your contract and save ££££
Four years ago (when it became possible) I switched supplier and negotiated a price reduction from c. 45p per litre to 33p per litre. Unfortunately I was an idiot, and when the two year contract was up, I didn't renegotiate and start a new contract. As a consequence my most recent invoice was at 62.3p per litre, an…
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Wood burning stove - lighting procedure
We’ve had our wood-burning Stovax 5 for two years now and love it! It heats the open plan lounge, kitchen and diner of our four bed house with no problems. We’ve been using primarily pallets, but now have some seasoned apple [one summer] and leylandii [two summers] that we mix with it. We don’t attempt to keep it going…
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Charnwood C5
Has anyone had an experience of keeping this one in overnight? We intend to do this when its cold enoungh using Taybrite and wood. Just concerned as on the stovesonline website someone has posted that they are unable to keep it in all night. The expert response is that they wont, due to not being able to close the airflow…
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Ecoal 50 suppliers - London
Hi there I'm looking to order about 1/4 tonne of Ecoal 50 but CPL - who I usually order from are very expensive (£16ish per 25kg bag). Does anyone know of any other suppliers locally who stock this? Ecoal50 is the best smokeless fuel we've tried so far. There is someone called Freddie Flame who are much cheaper but I can't…
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Sweeping the chimney.
How often do you really do it? I have read all the bumf of every 12 months at least or twice a year if it's used more often but really how often do you do it? My mate says his is used approx 7 months and he swept it once in 8 years loads came down but there is no need to sweep as often. I bought my own rods and the brush…
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Oil tank query
Hi, not sure if this should be in this forum or the house selling one but hope someone here can help. We are in the process of buying a house which has oil fired boiler, we have received a service report from the vendors and it has thrown up an issue with the storage of the oil tank. It says the tank needs to be placed on…
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The Chilli Penguin And other stoves
I'm a long term lurker, having found so much help on here over the years for various issues. I've finally persuaded DH that looking into a wood burning stove is a good idea. We actually don't have massive utility bills, but our house does get chilly in the winter and I end up wearing extra jumpers and having blankets to…
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Help - how do I keep warm in winter (other than wearing lots of jumpers)
Cab any of you guys help? I have an apartment with large windows. It only has electric heaters. I am out for most of the day, when I get home it takes forever to heat my main living room. My main living room is an L shape, and unfortunately the heater is the wrong side of the room for me. Is it reasonable to leave the…
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woodburner and flames - silly question
Hi all Still learning my way round the beast and wondered if those in the know could share.... Could someone please talk me through the cycle of flames in a woodburner from start to embers including putting a new log in - colour/vigorousness, etc. Thanks
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Titan Plastic oil tank split
I had a titan plastic tank fitted on 31 January 2003, during a service last week the engineer noticed two splits in the top of it and kindly sealed them to stop water getting in. My question is, I notice from trawling the net that this seems to happen quite often and in the same place and the figure over 58,000 tanks have…
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Storage heater wiring questions
Morning, Can someone offer me some advice on storage heater wiring? We are on an E7 teleswitch / timerswitch meter thing, and after a bit of discussion with our energy suppliers we discovered our low tariff runs around 1.30am - 8.30. Which is fine by us, cheap showers in the morning! Anyway, our electrician came to install…
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Help with woodburner
Hi was wondering if anyone could shed some light on my situation. Stove was running fine until I got chimney swept, now takes me a lot longer to get fire going and up to temperature. I looked outside at my chimney and Im sure the smoke exited 2nd cowl but now seems to be coming out of 1st cowl. Could I be wrong??? When…
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Heating Advice
Good afternoon. Not sure if this is the right place to post this thread. We are currently in a rented house. We have oil heating installed and radiators in every room. Our house is basically an L shape with hall in the longer part of the house where the three bedrooms are. Our problem is that that hall doesn't have any…
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How to remove cover from oil fired Riello burner
I've had a delivery of oil and the tank has been empty since February so the boiler won't fire up. The usual thing to try first, I gather, is to bleed it, however all the instructions for doing so either assume it's obvious how to remove the front of the boiler or don't even mention it. However I can't find a single…
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Hasslefreeboilers.com
see also Helplink thread below. There seems to be no deposit required with HFB. Cost 'all in' £36 pm 12yrs = £5200 + 3% pa increase (what happens if I move ? not mentioned in T&C) Take off cost of my current Boiler cover - £2750 over 5 yrs net cost £2250. IS this the way to look at it ?
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What Multi fuel stove to buy? First time buyer - help please!
I am looking at buying a multi fuel fire in the next few weeks, however am getting conflicting advice from various suppliers and there appears to be limited reviews online for the makes I am interested (wouldn't you know!). I appreciate that many people only have experience with perhaps one make of fire, as their fires…
