What to look for in a Wood / Multifuel Burner?

crphillips

welda wrote: »

At approx 3 metre max high from bottom of hearth how would you remove bend?

A coring ball would shift it in 5 mins. That's where knowldege and experience comes in though. Out of thousands of flues i've never had to knock into one from the outside to get a liner down! Coring ball everytime.

crphillips

hethmar wrote: »

I find it hard to believe that this time of year, the local Buildings Control would have someone on hand to go out before the job (as required) and then return to examine the installation and sign off every time. As I said, for just our firm we would have the bloke on the go every day virtually

We couldn't function if we were waiting for building control to sign off every job. We're installing around 10-15 stoves and liners a week!

welda

crphillips wrote: »

A coring ball would shift it in 5 mins. That's where knowldege and experience comes in though. Out of thousands of flues i've never had to knock into one from the outside to get a liner down! Coring ball everytime.

Is this what you mean

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Core-Workout-Step-step/dp/1569754683

crphillips

Hehe.....yeah, something like that :rotfl:

hethmar

Its very unusual for a 250 year old house to have a dog leg at that point? Has the chimney been rebuilt?

welda

Don,t think so, there are 3 chimneys on the gable, perhaps this is why there is a dog leg???

jonewer

crphillips wrote: »

£150 for a full install.....hmm.....you

I know every install is different, but how much would an average installation be?

I'm toying with the idea of getting one of these but I dont want to if its going to cost too much to install... they are expensive enough to start with.

mitchy74

A question regards log burners.

I live in a 3 bed detached kit house which isnt easy to keep warm and is unfortunately fueled by LPG.

I bought a woodburner after reading about them online and am looking at getting it fitted. I have a chimney in the house that I intend to have the flue fitted in to professionally. The problem I have is that its apparently a 11.8kw burner so should provide a fair bit of heat but comes with a warning that it needs to be almost 3 feet from any wall containing combustable materials meaning it would almost be in the middle of the room. Not wanting to start ripping out walls and replacing the materials, is it possible to build a meter high sort of 2 sided wall round a burner (concrete floor) to sheild the combustable wall? I know this will be detrimental to the heat output but cant think of any other way to do it???

Thanks

crphillips

You can but it's a bit complicated to go through on the forum. Download Part J of the Building Regs and have a read through them.....you should be able to find the bit that's relevant to what your doing. Either that or sell the stove and buy something with better clearances to combustible.....there are stoves available that can sit within 100mm of combustible materials. The stove sounds way too big for your room though......that stove will heat a room measuring 10m x 7m x 2.4m.........i'd doubt if the entire ground floor of a 3 bed semi was that big! Did you buy it from 'friendly' Sue & Tom in Scotland by any chance?

mitchy74

crphillips wrote: »

You can but it's a bit complicated to go through on the forum. Download Part J of the Building Regs and have a read through them.....you should be able to find the bit that's relevant to what your doing. Either that or sell the stove and buy something with better clearances to combustible.....there are stoves available that can sit within 100mm of combustible materials. The stove sounds way too big for your room though......that stove will heat a room measuring 10m x 7m x 2.4m.........i'd doubt if the entire ground floor of a 3 bed semi was that big! Did you buy it from 'friendly' Sue & Tom in Scotland by any chance?

It did come from Scotland yes, and was a fairly cheap model.

At present the part of the house this is going into has a flat roof, which joins onto my garage and kitchen latterly which is in the main body of the house. I'm hoping that by leaving the doors open this will allow the heat to transfer around and also warm the garage too. My current LPG system I am convinced is losing a huge amount of its efficiency purely down to being situated under this flat roof and in the coldest part of the house.

I am currently going through planning to build over the flat roof so this really is a short term fix for this winter to avoid £300-£500 a month LPG bills for a boiler thats on 4 hours a day.