Help with buying a wood burning stove!

jonewer

crphillips wrote: »

To get a reasonable quality stove with a liner all installed with fireplace aterations and a slate, granite or limestone hearth hearth you'd expect to be around the £2200ish. Prices will vary up and down the country and also on how good/busy the firm is.

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welda

I think you guys are missing the point here. You both lay claim to what is good or bad, when someone comes along and challenges your words of wisdom, you close rank. For example, How dare I challenge experts with a numerous installs under their hat, worse than the masons!!

As has been rightly said, this is a money saving website, some users may not have the funds for an all singing and dancing top of the range burner, but may be able to push the boat out a little for a different make burner, if I may use my own experience, I certainly have no complaints with my purchase, others share this too, What Stove website confirms this if you care to look. If I took advice from you guys, then I would have lost out possibly on many front? As for the collusion/commision, this was in jest, seems humour is lacking on the stove installer front.

Mr CPR, I have a prototype stove on my CAD programe at home, there are many elements important from a design point of view. I,m looking beyong carbon made, bit more pricey, but wil last a life time if itpans out. I wouldn,t look at TIG for nailing together, nor squirty MIG, solid or cored wire, you need to think out the box and look at another welding process. Laser profiling is the way forward too, from profiling main body, to cutting out air intake, laser is the one, no deburring, unlike other CNC processes. And if my choice of material don,t pan out, very easiy process to revert back to carbon. I wish you luck in your venture!!

My alter ego A Badger will be along to defend himself :rotfl:

Mrs H, I,m glad you mentioned you had another half, I,d be tempted to make you an offer, working on roofs is impressive, last one I had, had put make up on to hang out the washing enjoy retirement when it comes around :T

I,ll finish up by saying, thanfully I am able to cope with various DIY very competantly myself, It,s rare whenI have to pander to the obvious alter ego,s that use this site.

:beer: have a good one............

jonewer

What a lot of willy waving

crphillips

Well anyways.........Never mind......there's more to life.

A._Badger

Just to set the record straight (as Hethmar seems to be off in a world of her own imagination), as I have previously posted, I have owned several stoves. The chimney fire occurred in a house I had recently bought which came with an old one (poorly installed, it turned out) - neither a Villager nor a Hunter. I replaced the stove with a Hunter Herald 14, which has operated very well for the past 12 months. It seems strangely unwilling to perform as badly as either she or CRP predict.

Anyone considering Hethmar's advice (especially about something as expensive and complicated as choosing a stove) might want to consider her difficulty grasping a few simple (easily checkable) facts.

CRP, meanwhile, fails to understand the point I was making. Whether cast iron can be recycled or not isn't the issue. The issue is that a stove retailer said it and that many stove retailers seem incapable of selling products without concocting smear and spin about products they don't like.

As for Welda's comments about this site, I'd agree and go a stage further, This is MSE - not a happy hunting ground for stove retailers and installers. It is supposed to be a place for consumers and users to share our experiences, so that we can avoid getting ripped-off by commercial interests.

suki1964

Tbh I think that the constant running down of certain makes of stoves can stop people from posting their own experiences. Im pretty hard skinned and I love my wee Tigar (cheap Chinese cr*p according to some) so I will speak up but the snobbery on here beggars belief

dollydolittle_2

So, as a consumer who wants to avoid being ripped off - and putting the issue of quality/price of stove to one side for a moment - can anyone explain about what a bad installation is? Many people on here say that anyone with reasonable diy skills can do it themselves, and yet at the same time poor installation is blamed for a lot, so I don't know how I'd check that a random installer is doing it right. To the uninitiated there doesn't seem like a lot that can go wrong.

Swipe

If you are looking for decent advice from knowledgeable people about stoves and all things wood burning you wouldn't go wrong browsing the hearth.com forums.

dollydolittle_2

Thank you so much. That is exactly what I need. I'll stop bothering you all on here now.

crphillips

Is it not based in America? None of the regs will apply to UK installations.