Wood Stove double duty

Purpleclutterbuck

Hiya:hello:
Just been catching up on the good ideas - :T
emiff06 - the installer got the moisture meter thingy sorry, "Digital moisture meter" for us but if you google the name/description quite a few will appear - they all appear to be approx £10-30 but be careful of the spikes they are very sharp!!!
It means that we can burn the drier wood first and leave the other lot to dry out a bit more for a couple of nights at the side of the woodburner plus .....if you get a delivery of wood you can check the moisture content and give back any unseasoned stuff - for some reason the wood bods were a bit taken aback when I produced the meter :rotfl:
I'm off to search the charity shops for smallish casserole dishes!
Love the pics!

lostinrates

I'm geting wood burner envy. we've got a wood burner in the new house that we planned to use as our main source of heating. Sadly when the sweep came he felt it was badly installed and wouldn't sign it off....but did say it was no less safe than it had been before he saw it...

we've tentatively tried it, it draws ok, but we're going to get a carbon monoxide alarm and try again. BUT ours didn't get anything like hot enough to simmer food on when we tried it, and it hasn't got a large flat top...it sweeps up, like a cooker hood, to a small top not much bigger than a flue pipe....

csarina

I have a carbon monoxide alarm in the sitting room, we had a bad experience with a gas fire some years ago.......Every one who has gas, solid fuel, oil or wood burners should have one, they can all give off CM fumes. I test mine each week when I clean the sitting room. The battery is a long life one, it last for at least 2 years, when its had it you have to get a new alarm, you cannot replace the battery. Think I got mine off ebay.

Will not be lighting the stove till later today its quite sunny and the sitting room get warm when the sun is on the windows.

Off to drink my coffee and fill up the steamer for my Friday clean.

Jolaaled

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm geting wood burner envy. we've got a wood burner in the new house that we planned to use as our main source of heating. Sadly when the sweep came he felt it was badly installed and wouldn't sign it off....but did say it was no less safe than it had been before he saw it...

we've tentatively tried it, it draws ok, but we're going to get a carbon monoxide alarm and try again. BUT ours didn't get anything like hot enough to simmer food on when we tried it, and it hasn't got a large flat top...it sweeps up, like a cooker hood, to a small top not much bigger than a flue pipe....

hmm..i wonder if the sloping roof on your wood stove is a removeable canopy?? Could there be a flat surface below this that you could reveal and make use of???.
I've not yet been able to get anything close to a simmering temperature on mine yet, but I've had the stove running quite low today, as the temperature is fairly mild today. Hopefully a cold spell will give me a chance to stoke the stove up to max and then try boiling my kettle on it once again!

Good luck with your new stove.

Fruball

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm geting wood burner envy. we've got a wood burner in the new house that we planned to use as our main source of heating. Sadly when the sweep came he felt it was badly installed and wouldn't sign it off....but did say it was no less safe than it had been before he saw it...

we've tentatively tried it, it draws ok, but we're going to get a carbon monoxide alarm and try again. BUT ours didn't get anything like hot enough to simmer food on when we tried it, and it hasn't got a large flat top...it sweeps up, like a cooker hood, to a small top not much bigger than a flue pipe....

Be very very careful re your house insurance. If you (god forbid) had a housefire due to the woodburner, the insurance co may find out that the sweet wouldn't sign it off and might render your insurance invalid...

Insurance companies will go to great lengths not to pay out if there is any discrepency whatsoever.

HTH

lostinrates

Frugal wrote: »

Be very very careful re your house insurance. If you (god forbid) had a housefire due to the woodburner, the insurance co may find out that the sweet wouldn't sign it off and might render your insurance invalid...

Insurance companies will go to great lengths not to pay out if there is any discrepency whatsoever.

HTH

Thanks for the warning. I agree, these things are done only tentatively and with us on alert. In fact, the woodburner is probably coming out of that fireplace, we want to return that one to an open fire we think and safely install the woodburner in a different fireplace...a year of waiting to experiment with it won't kill me, but over enthusiasm might so....

Dieselberry

Hi
Do you mind if I ask how much it cost to have your liner put in.

Our stove started to belch smoke into the bedroom last year and we had to stop using it, it really made a difference as it was freezing last year.

Think the only solution is to get a liner fitted.

Oh and was it messy and how long did it take.

Thanks

Jolaaled

Dieselberry wrote: »

Hi
Do you mind if I ask how much it cost to have your liner put in.

Our stove started to belch smoke into the bedroom last year and we had to stop using it, it really made a difference as it was freezing last year.

Think the only solution is to get a liner fitted.

Oh and was it messy and how long did it take.

Thanks

The liner cost about 1200 pounds (that includes the labour costs). It wasn't very messy when it was fitted, as I'd made sure that the sweep had given teh chimney a good clean prior to the liner being fitted. The whole process of fitting liner and stove only took about 3 hours. I was so impressed with my installers...they've done a great job.

My stove also blew smoke into the upstairs bedroom, where there was an old boarded over fireplace. It took a while to sort out, but it seems that, as the chimney from the stove got hotter, it drew stuff in from a second, unused chimney, and this then came out into the bedroom. it was easily sorted, by covering up the bedroom fireplace properly and then raising the chimney cowl a wee bit, to create a stronger updraught.

Hope this helps!

zippychick

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