Seeking the absolute cheapest,smallest stove I can get!!

spinningsheep

I am looking for a VERY small stove, just to slot into my exsisting 16" fireplace opening to increase the efficiency, any ideas? Gotta be small!

A._Badger

Do be a little bit cautious with cheap stoves. My chimney sweep (who spends as much time installing stoves for people as he does sweeping chimneys) tells me he has seen some real horrors that people have bought (usually on t'web).

I'm sure not all Chinese-made stoves are bad, but he says some of them are really awful.

Just a thought.

Richard_Terry

Easy now!

A 16" fireplace may be a problem... We're in the process of having a stove installed, and one of the regulations we got told about is that there has to be a minimum gap of 6" between the stove and any non-combustible surface. So a 16" fireplace, minus the 6" per side, would mean you need a stove 4" wide.

As I said, that's one of the regulations we got told about, it might be complete rubbish! Definitely worth googling though.

Cheers.

Rolandtheroadie

Surely a non-combustible surface is preferential to a combustible surface?

We're getting an inset stove fitted and I've literally looked at loads over the past few weeks.

google stovesareus

paceinternet

I think you may be mixing rules about stoves in a fireplace where the dimension is about the hearth, and freestanding stoves where it refers to a "suitably heat resistant wall".

http://www.stovesonline.co.uk/stove-hearth-size.html
At least 150mm to a suitably heat resistant wall.

http://www.stovesonline.co.uk/fitting_a_stove.html
Fitting the stove to an existing fireplace:
Building regulations require that the stove should be on a plinth of non-combustible material extending at least 150mm at the sides and 300mm in front.