multifuel stove

A._Badger

That should be an excellent choice - Dunsley has a great name, Thanks for letting us know. Maybe you could report back in a few months time and let us know how you've got on with it? That way someone else might get the benefit of your experience, too.

welda

Nice one Brickie, happy new stove, as per A. Badger, let us know how new purchase performs please.

We're all friends here, just some take tongue & cheek humour to heart

:beer:

brickie58

A._Badger wrote: »

That should be an excellent choice - Dunsley has a great name, Thanks for letting us know. Maybe you could report back in a few months time and let us know how you've got on with it? That way someone else might get the benefit of your experience, too.

ok will do wont be fitting it for a while bought it now to beat the vat increase but will let you know :beer:

hethmar

welda wrote: »

Doc........oops Hethmar , twas a bit of tongue in cheek, can I change my example to disprin?

Fortunately I know stove priciples better than my medicines, I'm sure most would have grasped meaning of my post!

:beer:

Yes Im sure they would - I also do tongue in cheek. But seriously, if you have a dodgey stomach, ibuprofen can really aggravate your digestive system. Aspirin can also cause stomach bleeding but much less likely to do so.

whitevanwoman

brickie58 wrote: »

thanks to everyone who posted:T well i have bought one:j after a chance encounter with a heating engineer working next door to the house i was working on he was fitting a stove a highlander and he gave me the name of a company who was selling them locallyish 60 miles away so i gave them a ring and after much haggling pleading begging and threatening i bought a highlander 5 for £520 he told me that 80% percent of the stoves they sell are highlanders and they have plenty of other makes in store so again thanks for all the info and hope your all friends after this:)

:T I've been really pleased with my Highlander 5, now 6 yrs old. I deliberately chose it for it's looks - less fancy and more functional in design, suits my kitchen better. You got a very good price for yours. Dunsley are very helpful when ordering spare parts.

Word of advice, if using coal alot, make sure that you riddle the grate regularly of all hot ash, each time you put more coal on, as the top grate bars have a tendancy to warp upwards. You can still use them like that but it reduces the efficiency when burning wood as there is too much air coming through the grate instead of blocking the air flow off so wood burns through too quickly.

Also firebricks tend to crack fairly quickly but I believe this is the norm for most stoves.

Enjoy!

A._Badger

That's very good advice about keeping the grate clear. The previous owners of my current house wrecked a huge Yeoman stove that way. You have to make sure there's a good flow of air coming from beneath when burning coal or smokeless.

As for fire bricks cracking, I had no end of trouble with that with my Little Wenlock but have had none at all with my Hunter 14. I wonder if it's more of an issue with smaller stoves?

brickie58

one more question how much heat am i going to lose if i set stove in fireplce recess compared to sitting in front of breast?

Munketytunkety

The answer to that one from my own observations is quite a lot. My firewarm6 is in the recess and the chimney breast certainly eats the heat. My Holly is out in the room and that really pumps the heat out.

brickie58

Munketytunkety wrote: »

The answer to that one from my own observations is quite a lot. My firewarm6 is in the recess and the chimney breast certainly eats the heat. My Holly is out in the room and that really pumps the heat out.

thanks its going on the hearth then not as pretty but more efficient!

anglo-nubian

Hi,

I've just installed my new Stanley 'Tara' stove and I have to say I'm pretty happy with the finish of the castings and the controlability of the stove ( it shuts off completely or runs like a forge fire, as required)
BUT the room is still freezing

Room heat calculations suggest a 6Kw requirement ; it's an 8Kw stove . I've been running it pretty hard all day today but yet the room temp is only just 14 degrees !!

My only guess is that, as alluded to in the last post, the inglenook alcove is trapping the heat..... Can this be so ? Surely convection currents will carry hot air out at the top of the alcove whilst drawing cold in at the bottom ??

Has anyone else had a similar problem ? I'm panicking a little here....


Thanks,

Glenn