Woodburner installed - thanks everyone for advice

Greenfires

I reckon I'll be taking my leave of this thread pretty shortly to be honest.

However, as far as experience goes, myself and other sweeps see these stoves all the time and the problems their owners have. I also know quite a few installers who will tell you the same thing - the reason some of them won't fit them is because they know damn well they are likely to come back and bite them in the !!!! not so far down the road. Not every Chinese stove is like this - and I said that myself already. I also agreed that your stove had received some good reviews.

Personally Hunter and Villager would not be on the list of stoves I'd recommend - many of their designs are almost 30 years old and there are much better stoves around.

Your "installation" to my mind, doesn't actually qualify as such. It's not a job any of the installers I know would have put their names to. You just don't install a stove into an open chimney without a register plate like that - end of story. This is of course assuming that you have the set up we think you have. I have no objection to getting a good deal at all - I do have objections to people doing bodge jobs on the cheap. Most of the people who get jobs like this end up being disappointed - that's not just the way I think - that's a fact. I see these jobs and meet these people all the time. There is saving money and there's taking risks - and there are stories in the papers regularly enough about people dying in their sleep due to poorly installed or badly maintained heating appliances.

I think you summed it up in the other thread though, when you said you didn't need our advice, so as that's the case, we'll leave you to it.

highrisklowreturn

Nice one. Now to burn some doubles.

welda

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

What irritates people on here is I got a good stove, a cheap installation, and I only have to tweak a small aspect of my heat flow now.

You can use the saving to hire a Porsche for a day, or better still www.yingyang.ch do an imitation 3L CaymanS, runs on damp wood and ovoids :rotfl: should see you happy for a wee while :j

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hethmar

Your sweep has not installed the stove to HETAS regulations. Has he given you a compliance certificate for it?

highrisklowreturn

This is ULSTER. We don't have a left-wing thought-police hanging over us. Or debt-collectors. Or 6 million illegals. Or EU writs. Our homes are still our castles. No he hasn't in other words.

hethmar

Then why did you bother to tell us he is HETAS registered? Clearly he is not adhering to their regulations.

"Btw my installer sweeps at £30, is Hetas registered, and has been in the business - his own business - for years".

highrisklowreturn

Because he is Scottish and was registered whilst working in a different part of the UK which is a different legal jurisdiction from Northern Ireland.

grahamc2003

Your sweep/installer/Scottish/Irish/HETAS stove expert who installs stove with the bother of a register plate, doesn't happen to be a red head does he?

The Red-Haired Man
In the fairy realm lives a red-haired man who, for no clear reason, has a liking for the mortal race. He warns a young woman to refuse the fairy wine or leads the spell-drugged young man out of the fairy fort. Whenever someone sneezes at a party, he says the necessary 'God bless you' to prevent abduction. More mortals would have been taken to, and fewer returned from, fairyland without the intervention of this kind, red-haired fairy man.

highrisklowreturn

Is this some sort of anti-Neil Lennon slur against noble red heads?

muckybutt

:wall: im sure highrisk has VD !!, he only hears what he wants to hear, when people with trusted experience in said matter give advice he either cares to flame them or does the complete opposite.


This is a message for other MSE'rs reading this thread, take what ever highrisk says with a pinch of salt as he has no idea what he's doing.