eBay Stove giving no heat hardly

crphillips

Fair enough to the people who are happy with their budget stoves but I wouldn't be happy if the glass on my stove was the colour of the one in the photo above and many of my customers wouldn't be too happy either. If your purely after heat from your stove then I guess they'll do but if you want a clear view of the fire for weeks without having to do anything then generally more money needs to be spent.

IvanDrago

its actually not that bad now, the room takes ages to heat up though, ive been using smokeless coal and i use about 5kg a night.

crphillips - ive got a black hole vent, its getting installed soon!

thanks

im going to save up and buy a quality stove next autumn

MrsCrafty

crphillips wrote: »

Fair enough to the people who are happy with their budget stoves but I wouldn't be happy if the glass on my stove was the colour of the one in the photo above and many of my customers wouldn't be too happy either. If your purely after heat from your stove then I guess they'll do but if you want a clear view of the fire for weeks without having to do anything then generally more money needs to be spent.

CRPhillips, that is why you live in a 400 year old farmhouse and my installer lives in an ex local authority property. You are making a fortune out of installing stoves. Don't get me wrong I don't blame you, but please don't keep telling people that they must spend a fortune, they simply don't:)

The glass is manky because hubs burnt something he shouldn't have in there. It's clear now:)

suki1964

crphillips wrote: »

Fair enough to the people who are happy with their budget stoves but I wouldn't be happy if the glass on my stove was the colour of the one in the photo above and many of my customers wouldn't be too happy either. If your purely after heat from your stove then I guess they'll do but if you want a clear view of the fire for weeks without having to do anything then generally more money needs to be spent.

Rubbish


I have a Chinese stove and it burns clean the glass stays lovely and clear. Most I've had to do is wipe with a bit of newspaper every few days.

crphillips

Like I said.....if your happy with what it does then good. Just saying there's more to a stove than a box with a window. I think people expect too much from a £300 stove. I do okay and earn a reasonable living although our house isn't massive and it doubles up as business premises so it's not very expensive really. Anyone else is welcome to set up business and become a stove fitter if they wish:-) If your self employed and living in an ex council house then maybe it's time to get down to Tesco and ask for a job. I wouldn't put up with all the hassle of being self employed to earn an average wage. I can work for someone else and earn an average wage and not wake up at 6am thinking about the weeks work.

I'm not necessarily trying to push people into more expensive stoves.......I'm just trying to give another view as anyone coming across this forum would think only £300 Chinese stoves existed.

BOBS

Just read thread - we have stove and I didnt think to put in a CO2 meter - on shopping list for weekend now.

ALSO - if your glass is blackened by the morning - ours always is - dampen a piece of kitchen roll, dip into the ashes and rub over glass - it magically cleans it with a gentle rub!

stoveman

suki1964 wrote: »

Rubbish


I have a Chinese stove and it burns clean the glass stays lovely and clear. Most I've had to do is wipe with a bit of newspaper every few days.

How is what he said rubbish I dont understand? Are you saying that a £250 chinease stove off ebay can be as good as an £800 morso O4 for example?

grahamc2003

BOBS wrote: »

Just read thread - we have stove and I didnt think to put in a CO2 meter - on shopping list for weekend now.

ALSO - if your glass is blackened by the morning - ours always is - dampen a piece of kitchen roll, dip into the ashes and rub over glass - it magically cleans it with a gentle rub!

But you also must have tar and soot building up quickly in your chimney or flue, and that isn't great. In addition, it's all unburnt fuel which you have paid for, or if free, worked very hard for.

I don't try keeping mine alight overnight for those reasons - simply starving the fuel of oxygen to make it burn slower and last the night also produces smoke which condenses into tar and soot inside the stove and anywhere else it slowly travels.

crphillips

Yeah generally overnight burning is a waste of fuel and not good for your chimney at all and soots your glass up.

Don't buy a CO2 meter by the way.......it'll be going off constantly:-). It's a CO meter your after:-)

BOBS

Probably worded that wrong - we dont burn it overnight - just close it up going to bed! - we dont have a large woodburner - it is an insert one which fits into the space where the original fire would go. No backboiler etc - it is just to heat the living room.

Thanks for tip about CO meter - dont think I would have actually purchased wrong one!