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Greenfires

Did you mean to say you'd installed 10 metres of liner - or was 10 feet correct?

Andy

hethmar

If you did this installation yourself, have you had it signed off as safe? If the "plumber" did it, is he HETAS registered and gave you a Compliance Certificate and Data Plate along with an approved carbon monoxide monitor - all legal requirements now. If the stove has over 5 Kw output you need an air vent in the room to an external source.

I dont think anyone can tell you what the prob is without coming to the house. If smoke is entering your bedroom through an unused fireplace, then its possible its being drawn down from a neighbouring chimney pot.

daveloz1

Oh don't know about hetas registered never really checked didn't know they had to be most people put in their selfs...

it is 10 meters of flue pipe 6" diameter connected top to bottom all parts tested and ok.

Greenfires

daveloz1 wrote: »

it is 10 meters of flue pipe 6" diameter connected top to bottom all parts tested and ok.

Ok - only asked as it wouldn't be the first I've heard of a liner being put half way up or down a chimney!!

It's quite possible for smoke to come down a neighbouring chimney - we have two adjacent chimneys here from two connected downstairs rooms - and one of them reverses flow when the chimney is cold, like if the stove hasn't been lit for a day or two in the winter. The chimney in the next room never does this - they're funny things! A situation like this can be dangerous though - whilst you can smell the smoke in the other room, you won't smell carbon monoxide - and that can be very bad news - so get it checked and sorted!

Andy

daveloz1

Yes the liner went all the up top to bottom because I was holding the liner at the bottom as he was cutting it to size in the chimney..... It has either dislodged or the neighbouring flue is drawing in like you say due to cold air... He is coming out on Wednesday to sort this out... I was wondering why the old living flame gas fire was not connected as this had a gas flue too which had to be pulled out before my twin wall liner went it. Just seems wierd that some smoke drifts into above bedroom maybe I dislodged the liner as I was putting the stove in.

daveloz1

Just had another look at my connections at the bottom of the stove and all seems ok but now i have liner in top to bottom surely i should only get a draft from the installed pipe??? I can feel cold air and draft in the chimney hole where the liner is so maybe thats my problem

zenithtb

I was wondering if anyone could take a look at some pics of an installation I did myself, for a couple of reasons;

1) I'd like the stove identified. It has a grill so I assume it's multifuel (though I'm only using it for logs) and

2) Did I do anything seriously crazy when I installed it?

Background:

The stove is one I got from a friend/neighbour for 100€ (I now live in Spain). It uses a 20cm (8") flue. I 'cast' a concrete base for it using fire cement, normal cement, gravel, with fire bricks on the top to spread the heat (I hope!).

I think the photos explain what I did better than words can

I have run the stove at high temperature for hours and all seems fine and dandy, but I'd like someone else to take a look-see and tell me if I've done something stunningly wrong. I am just a normal person (DIY handy though)...

Linky: h t t p s://picasaweb.google.com/zenithtb/20111126Stove02?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCNXAncy5rJXO7AE&feat=directlink

Many thanks for your time,

("Sorry as a new user you are not allowed to post with links. This is done to stop spammers clogging up the site. Please edit your message below to continue." - linky delinkied!)...

brickie58

Grz.26 wrote: »

Does anyone know if your save money per year by having a wood burner?

i have a dunsley highlander 5 multifuel stove, it was fitted in august this year, it is freestanding which gives off more heat than setting it into a fireplace as you get heat off the exposed pipe as well, and belts out the heat, i had an open coal fire before and it knocks spots of that, im sitting around with the doors open and wearing my summer clothes as it is so hot, i burn pallets which i get free, i bought half a ton of coal in september and havent touched it, i wish i had fitted it years ago, and as i did most of the work myself ( im a builder) and had it passed by the building inspector, i reckon it will pay for itself in 12 months at the price of coal now,i come in from work light it and within half an hour you can feel the heat it is so adjustable compared to an open fire best thing i ever did.

truspirit

Had my clearview vision 500 installed on Tuesday.absolutely loving it.The installers even replaced a few
Tiles I had missing on the roof for me too.Great job!!
Can't believe it gets so hot so quickly.Up to 700c in 10 minutes of lighting it!!!
Had to open the stove door to cool it down :-)
Well impressed and I'm so glad I got one.

dtmma

Does anybody know anything about astove.co.uk? We're looking for a multi fuel stove and they seem to offer very good prices but I'm suspicious partly because they are cheap and also because they don't display a phone number or physical address on their website, the only method of contact is by email and in their FAQs they say they don't allow anyone to call to collect items because it's a "private warehouse". Whatever that means.
Anybody dealt with them?