Aga little wenlock classic

londonlass54

Evening all,

This is only my 2nd time on this site, so here goes! I've just read all the comments with interest as I had the latest Little Wenlock Smoke Exempt woodburner installed back in November 2009. I've got a reasonably sized dining room/kitchen - was originally two rooms and then knocked into one. Dining room has a radiator but the kitchen is without heating at all and is quite cold. I've always loved the idea of a woodburner and last year after much debating, I finally had one installed. Mine is also 5kw and although it does take it some time to get going, we do notice the difference and also once it is on and up to 'speed', we've noticed the central heating does not come on as often. The only thing I would say is that this one (probably due to it's smoke exempt status) does get through quite a bit of wood but it's worth it as it does look lovely and it certainly kept everyone entertained over Christmas!
Hope this may have been of some help to someone out there!

tz1_1zt

The fast burning is a common issue with any "Smoke Exempt" version of an established stove. If the origional version does not meet the DEFRA standards, then the easiest way to correct that is to give it more secondary air in order to achieve more fierce wood combustion.

For example, the following stoves meet the approval with no modifications; Morso Badger, 6140 and Ø4, Stovax Riva40. They therefore meet the standards while operating as initially desgned to do with no need for extra air. You can expect much better results form these quality stoves that were designed excellently to start with.

The best method for achieving correct output from any stove is to gt it up to running termparature before loading. This is best done with either a stovepipe thermometer or infrared contact-less thermometer. The fire chamber should be between 250-350 degrees C. Correspondingly, the stove pipe should be at 150-250 degrees C. Get the stove up to temperature and then load bigger logs. The output should then be nice and high.
tz1_1zt

JP25

Hi my name is JP and i am from Portugal.
I have bought and instaled a Aga Litlle wenlock, we are all very happy because our house is very warm.
But we have a problem, the master bedroom is colder, so i would like to know if it is a good idea to install a room vent conecting the living room to the master bedroom?

Davidtrinder

I have three stoves in the house, including a Little Wenlock in a large bedroom. It gets good and hot but logs have to be quite small to fit in. I'd buy a bigger one next time, you can always put less fuel in.

crphillips

JP25 wrote: »

Hi my name is JP and i am from Portugal.
I have bought and instaled a Aga Litlle wenlock, we are all very happy because our house is very warm.
But we have a problem, the master bedroom is colder, so i would like to know if it is a good idea to install a room vent conecting the living room to the master bedroom?

I'd avoid installing vents between the lounge and bedroom as it will be a huge breach in terms of fire and smoke travelling throughout the house. also noise will travel between the rooms. Unless your the only one in the house then the last point doesn't really matter.

By the way......the old Little Wenlock was a great little stove with quality castings......the new one is knocked out in China and looks nothing like the old one...shame. Absolute pig to get the baffle plate out of for sweeping too. Chimney sweeps hate them. On the plus side though it's one of the cheapest smoke exempt stoves around.

JP25

Is there some kind of vent with filters that i can place inside the wall betwen the living room and the master bedroom?

A._Badger

crphillips wrote: »

By the way......the old Little Wenlock was a great little stove with quality castings......the new one is knocked out in China and looks nothing like the old one...shame. Absolute pig to get the baffle plate out of for sweeping too. Chimney sweeps hate them. On the plus side though it's one of the cheapest smoke exempt stoves around.

The Little Wenlock Mk II (then branded Coalbrookdale and still made in England) was far from being 'a great little stove'.

It looked quaint but had only the most rudimentary control (a single rotary spinner) and no airwash to keep the glass clean.

Mine also had the unfortunate habit of suffering from cracked firebricks and Aga simply couldn't have cared less, so long as they could keep selling users equally useless replacements at a massively inflated price.

I should know. I own one and it's sitting in my garage, while I decide what to do with it.

As I say, it's quaint to look at and it can belt out the heat but it was a light year behind the equivalent Morso (or even some of the modern steel stoves) in design.

crphillips

Not sure.......if it has filters the air will not circulate by convection as it would be too restrictive.....unless it was moved by a fan. Obviously the Americans use a lot of Warm Air Heating that is ducted around the house but i don't know much about it so i'm not sure how they stop the noise travelling. Maybe the sides of the ducts are lined with some kind of foam or soft material to absorb the noise.