Wood burning stove legalities?

wrightk

ahhh very stylish, ours isnt as grand, although it was put in in the 60's i think. still very very efficient and so warm

Cash-Cow_3

Get a carbon monoxide alarm.

IIRC there have been cases of people being poisoned in upstairs rooms due to leaky chimney and it is compulsory in some countries to line chimneys.

muckybutt

wrightk wrote: »

ahhh very stylish, ours isnt as grand, although it was put in in the 60's i think. still very very efficient and so warm

That looks like an old dunsley

wrightk

charnwood la45ib i think. not sure if they still sell them though

Man_Overboard_2

There is not much difference between a woodburning stove and an open fire, except that a woodburner is less likely to spill burning embers onto your floor

wrightk

i have to disagree with that. an open fire is capable of making a room quite hot, uncomfortably so, but it cant heat a whole house, or heat a cylinder to power your radiators (as far as im aware). so in that respect they're completely different

Man_Overboard_2

I was thinking more of 'safety' than 'functionality'

A chimney will deal as well with the exhaust gases of a woodburner as it will deal with the exhaust gases of an open fire

But the temperatures within a 'closed' flue will be much higher than the the temperatures above an open fire - much of the air which enters an open chimney will have passed 'over' a fire rather than 'through' it

The higher temperatures within a flue may indeed present a greater risk than the danger of falling embers, especially in a 500-year-old thatch

A sealed system may well be best for a central heating system, but you have to be careful not to coat the interior of the flue with unremoveable tar

Ectophile

Swipe wrote: »

It amuses me when people use the term 'illegal'. You won't get arrested if you do it yourself and don't get it signed off. There's no actual law you are breaking. It just means that your house insurer might not pay out if your house burns down.

There are building regulations http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/AD_J_wm.pdf, which are law.

Admittedly, the odds of being prosecuted for breaking them are pretty low.

You can also add in difficulty selling your house later if the required paperwork is not there.

Swipe

Ectophile wrote: »

You can also add in difficulty selling your house later if the required paperwork is not there.

I took my stove with me when I moved house so no issues selling for me, I just left an open fireplace.