Smelly woodburner?

Gloomendoom

The_Economist wrote: »

Anyway moving on! I would rather have peice of mind than not. I take you have no experience in having a wood stove or open fire. Are you gas safe registerd?

There you go again. Over fifty years experience actually.

I was brought up in house with an open fire in every room and no central heating. Virtually every house I have ever lived in has had some form of solid fuel heating. My current house has two open fires and a large iron stove. I have smoke alarms fitted and I am currently considering adding LPG and carbon monoxide alarms... for peace of mind.

Hence my interest in this thread.

No, I am not gas safe registered. Why do you ask?

lostinrates

Ok, sorry I forgot about this thread and now an disheartened it has caused bad humour amoung respondants.

For the record I think it's smelling better now, but it's a clearview and while they have a good reputation I despise it and dream of the day we can remove it.

suki1964

lostinrates wrote: »

Ok, sorry I forgot about this thread and now an disheartened it has caused bad humour amoung respondants.

Ignore them, theres some peeps who go out of their way to be offended:D

Mojisola

lostinrates wrote: »

For the record I think it's smelling better now, but it's a clearview and while they have a good reputation I despise it and dream of the day we can remove it.

Have you asked Clearview about it? We have one and it is an absolute dream. I wonder if yours wasn't installed correctly?

I think carbon monoxide detectors are essential now because we've had years of draught-proofing houses. All the older houses I lived in when the open fire was the only heating in the house also had plenty of draughts.

lostinrates

Mojisola wrote: »

Have you asked Clearview about it? We have one and it is an absolute dream. I wonder if yours wasn't installed correctly?

I think carbon monoxide detectors are essential now because we've had years of draught-proofing houses. All the older houses I lived in when the open fire was the only heating in the house also had plenty of draughts.

I started discussion with clearview, who seemed kind and wanted to help, earlier this year, then got very I'll and simply could not deal with it .

There are a fee problems with ours and no, it hasn't been installed to standards ( e.g. It's too far forward on the hearth for building regs) but otherwise seems 'ok'.

This is will be our third winter with it, and I have had to re rope it...about...um, eight times? And the seal between the glass has needed reselling often too. I was so fed up I took the door into a woodburner place and asked what I was doing wrong...nothing apparently.

We have only had one wood burner before, and I didn't get on brilliantly with that either, so it's likely to be me:o

The clear view does get very hot (meltingly so) but all the heat stays in the big inglenook that it's in, or just infront of it. We might get an Eco fan but ATM money is a bit tight for extras.

In any case, we are getting a pellet burner (goodness help me if I dislike that wood burner too) hopefully coming this month so we will have rout old radiators a little functional again and then maybe the woodburner will appreciated as support rather than hated as a sole provider holding us captive to its rope chewing, foul smelling, wood gobbling whims. (it is extremely greedy).

Thanks all.