wood burning stoves

bltchef

Hi all has anyone boughr a wood burnig sove off EBAY? I am think of buying one from a shop called https://www.naturalheating.co.uk has anybody any advice for us thank you all :beer:

safesound

Yeah, I bought one from them last year at a bargain price. Seller is very knowledgable, however, when we received the stove there was a slight crack in the skirt (at the time we werent sure if this would affect the stove and "spread" making the stove unusable) so we emailed the seller to ask advice on what to do.
Unfortunately, the seller didnt bother to respond. Thankfully though the crack didnt spread.
You can decide for yourself if the seller knew the crack wouldnt spread so decided it wasnt worth the effort of the response (my personal theory) or whether they are a little on the "dodgy" side. I will add that I would probably buy from them again, even given the above. For me all that matters is that the stove is working lovely and I'm very happy with it.

Just a couple of pointers for you; wood burning stoves are easy to install yourself however this may affect your house insurance and may even be illegal (?) if you are going to get a professional to install the stove expect to pay at least £1000 (I got four quotes and that was the CHEAPEST). We decided to self install and did exactly the same as the professionals described. Professional installers will try to sell you insulated flue liners, if you are using a chimney these are not necessary however a flexable flue liner may be needed, these can cost as much as £400 (if you have an open fire that currently uses your chimney without any problems the likelyhood is you wont need a flue liner).
And a quick word about wood; we found it very hard in the first season to find wood and ended up buying wood to burn and this cost an absolute fortune. However you'll be suprised how many sources of free wood are available once you start looking. (We already have 2 months + worth of wood and we havent really thought about the winter yet).

Good luck with your burner, they are great; very atmospheric and homely.

chaos5678

HI

I bought one last year from ebay and it's brilliant

We only wanted a small neat one as our room is small and they advised on which to buy
They also said a competent DIYer could fit them and my husband did ours.

The seller couldn't have been more helpful, he sent everything we needed with the fire,
Let me know if you want his name

(we burn pld pallets that my oh gets from work, they burn really hot)

bltchef

hi thanks for the replys and the advice i have order one from ebay thanks for the hint on house cover we were not awere of that thanks again :beer: