Garage Alternative Cooking/Heat Source

john_howard_fisher

Hi everyone

In the garage I want to make a mini kitchen. I can put a gas pipe in and use a gas cooker. However this is not what i want to do.

What I want is to have an alternative cooking / heat source. Ideally wood. This would be both economical and environmentally free. Also it would give us extra option, for example gas not available for any reason.

I have seen some wood burner stoves but not sure which would be best. I want to be able to send the smoke out via a flute. I don't want the whole garage full of smoke. Also I must be able to cook on it.

What can mse'rs recommend?

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Is this for a business?

john_howard_fisher

thanks for the reply 1984ReturnsForReal. no this is not for business. purely for personal use. it is my house and the garage is built on the side joining the house so thats why i could get a gas pipe but thought this would be better.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

To be honest I really havent got a clue but you would have to get someone to install it & I would think they would want to comply with building regs & I wonder if the design of a garage might interfere with the installation of a cooker or fire.

I would be surprised if it didnt.

Insulation, fire safety & ventilation.

maninthestreet

Presumably you also want to be able to park your car in the kitchen???

27col

It seems an awful lot of trouble to go to, on the off chance that the gas supply might go off at some time. How many recorded cases are there of that happening. It must be almost unheard of. It has certainly never gone off in the 33 years that I have been in this house. You are far more likely to lose your electricity supply. As we use electricity in our kitchen we have a small camping gaz twin burner for use in an emergency. We have never had to use that either. By the way, wood stoves are not non-polluting or particularly eco-friendly. Think of the burning of the rain forest. Wood is not cheap to buy either.

bobhawke

Buy a barbeque and space heater or portable gas heater

MX5huggy

I want to be able to send the smoke out via a flute. I don't want the whole garage full of smoke.

This made me laugh, if you use a flute the garage will fill with smoke I am sure.

PS I am not the spilling police, it was just funny.

You need to decide if you are going to do this properly ie use a HETAS installer or coble something together that may kill you.

How about one of these?

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/categories/search/cast-iron-wood-burning-stoves-2

olias

You can quite often pick up a solid fuel Aga or similar range for a few hundred quid off ebay.

Olias

sunshinetours

27col wrote: »

It seems an awful lot of trouble to go to, on the off chance that the gas supply might go off at some time. How many recorded cases are there of that happening. It must be almost unheard of. It has certainly never gone off in the 33 years that I have been in this house. You are far more likely to lose your electricity supply. As we use electricity in our kitchen we have a small camping gaz twin burner for use in an emergency. We have never had to use that either. By the way, wood stoves are not non-polluting or particularly eco-friendly. Think of the burning of the rain forest. Wood is not cheap to buy either.

Agree with the first of your post but not that bit. Burning wood (much of which will be softwood) is pretty much carbon neutral when you look at the bigger picture

Destruction of the rain forest is completely another matter and another topic!

I would hope the Op at least decides to read up on the regulations so he doesn;t kill himself or anyone else with CO posioning through a badly fitted woodburner

Norman_Castle

Has your wife thrown you out?