Aga Little Wenlock multi fuel stove

Mr_Nimoy

I have just purchased the Aga Little Wenlock (DEFRA approved) stove. I called in at a company that has recently opened premises in Lymm, Cheshire. The price of £500 included delivery to my home in Derbyshire.

This is the best price by far - even StovesareUs cannot beat this price even when I offered them the chance to.

With regard to the extremely expensive fire bricks. Try not to pay these prices !!

I work as an engineer in a steel foundry and these materials are used daily (withstanding temperatures up to 1600 Celsius)

My advice is to find out where your nearest foundry is and have a chat with the foundry manager he'll probably let you have half a dozen for nothing - or sell them to you for peanuts.

nialdavies

I've had My Little Wenlock Classic for a couple of months now, and on the whole its been fantastic, I love it.

Firstly having spent the weekend chopping logs I can say to jblack, I cur them to 6" and they fit just fine you may get away with 7"-8".

I have had the problems with lighting it this last week though, but I put it down to damp wood and high wind, I home thats the case.

My only issue with it is that the glass blackens up and does not seem to burn off, I find myself cleaning the glass almost every day, If I put it on a slow burn the glass covers with tar and is a nightmare to get off.

Any suggestions? I normally have the spinner and the top vent fully open.

Cheers

Nial

Essgeebee

I'm just about to place an order for Little Wenlock Classic so this thread has been invaluable. Burning softwood offcuts eg from sawmills may be cheaper but requires far more stoking than when using hardwood logs as the bang for your buck in terms of heat output per volume is greater with hardwoods such as oak and ash.

I love the top down starting method and will try it when the new stove is intsalled. I have a bit of a problem getting smokeless nuggets to light so hopefully that will help

Essgeebee

Had my Little Wenlock Classic for about 3 weeks now and it's lived up to all my expectations. We've a large living room (with low ceilings) and at anything near full pelt, it heats it up just fine. The CH radiators aren't needed at all. Just one thing, having bought bags of kiln dried logs from a local farm shop and also from a large supplier, I find most are too big (between 9 and 12 inches) to fit the stove. I'll need to cut them in half. If anyone knows of a supplier of small logs about 6-7 inches, I'd be grateful.

peediedj

stoveman wrote: »

5"-6" adapter to flexible liner = £40-£50
6" flexible liner (highest grade-904 grade) = £35-45 per meter
chimney clamp = £15-£20

thats expensive for flue liner and adaptor we punt flexi flue liner out at less than £30 per meter and adaptors for £25 odds

jonewer

stoveman wrote: »

Another reason for a liner going back to the tar build up is it will eat away at the mortar and can sometimes seep through the brickwork and come out of the walls and will look gastly.

Does anyone have any pictures of this actually having happened? I have never ever seen it in any house I have been into, including very old houses that must have had fires going on an almost daily basis for literally centuries without any sign of this having happened.

welda

jonewer wrote: »

Does anyone have any pictures of this actually having happened? I have never ever seen it in any house I have been into, including very old houses that must have had fires going on an almost daily basis for literally centuries without any sign of this having happened.

Haven't seen staining around my neck of the woods, however, house next door to MIL in France is very badly tar stained near the at eaves level, not a pretty sight!!

Regards.

muckybutt

jonewer wrote: »

Does anyone have any pictures of this actually having happened? I have never ever seen it in any house I have been into, including very old houses that must have had fires going on an almost daily basis for literally centuries without any sign of this having happened.

Personally I have seen tarring / staining coming through chimney breasts but then again ive sen 100's of chimneys. Its the creosote from the tar that leeches through the moarter joints thus causing coffee like stains on the chimney breast.

Greenfires

Yep - had a customer just last week with the problem, Warned them last year that there wood was too damp when I swept their chimney, but the bloke was having none of it -"oh it's good wood this is" etc etc. Fair enough. Last week the lady of the house rings and asks if I have any idea what the staining on their bedroom wall might be? Oh yes, I know exactly what it will be!

Seen plenty of pics from other sweeps as well - it's not some urban myth!

Incidentally - this is also one of the main reasons why many installers will insist on lining what the customer thinks is a perfectly good chimney - because when this condition does arise a year or two after a stove has been fitted, guess who the customer wants to blame for it?! Doesn't happen in all, or even most cases - but it does happen and then the customer starts dishing the blame out!

Andy