Woodburners...

Seakay

suzannebell56 wrote: »

Sorry am so damn :mad::mad: Tonight found a message on my mobile to contact Letting Agent quickly:eek: seems the chimney sweep has condemned the woodburner:eek::eek:....something to do with no access plate to sweep the chimney and no ashpan...will find out properly Monday morning..

So LAgent has given me some options

1 Can have my deposit back and walk away :mad: but can't have my £200 referencing fee back...

2 can go ahead with tenancy but will have something written into Tenancy Agreement that fire is condemned and not to be used:( and leave in situ as non functioning decorative thing..

3 Landlord will remove after Xmas and make good, .....But not put in new woodburner

The woodburner wasn't the main reason I love this place it was just the lovley added bonus. The house does have full gas central heated system with quite new Worcester Bosch combi boiler, fully gas safety checked and certificated, and all other relevant letting certificates etc.

I love the house, the rents fair, near to work, carpeted ready to move in to..just so disappointed about the wood burner....so I'm going for option 2.. Leave in situ, polish it to death and use as a focal point..ah well maybe one day......

But thank you for you help and advice, if I had not followed the advice re chimney sweep and going to a supplier for advice I would have just lit it and well the consequences might have been unthinkable....plus this has given Letting Agent a bullet to get her safety procedures sharpened up re woodburners...

Maybe after discussion with Landlord we might get something sorted after Xmas..so will just cover it in twinkly fairy lights and dream..

Once again thanks

Suzie:xmastree::xmastree::xmastree::xmastree::xmastree::xmastree: yes I'm looking forward to Xmas in my own place at last :rotfl::rotfl:

To get my chimney swept every year I have to chip off the fire cement and pull the fire away from the metal plate covering the old fire place because I don't have an access plate either - doesn't mean you can't sweep the chimney. When the chimney is swept I cement the pipe from the stove back into the pipe in the metal plate accessing the chimney. It's really not a lot of trouble at all and I'm surprised your sweep didn't suggest it

tryingtoruletheworld

suki1964 wrote: »

You dont need a chimney as you can buy a double walled flue which you run out up the side of the house.

Expensive but for us it was the best thing we ever done

Thanks for that! I'm going to have to start saving up now.....!

:rotfl:

suki1964

tryingtoruletheworld wrote: »

Thanks for that! I'm going to have to start saving up now.....!

:rotfl:

It's not the "pretty" option but here where I live it's a common sight as more and more people are installing stoves as oil prices get higher and higher and fire places and chimneys non exsistant.

Actually having the flu exposed in your room give more heat

kah22

Though I'd pop into this thread rather than open a new one. Hope the original poster doesn't mind

Anyway I have recently installed my new multi burner, can't comment on it yet as it's not in long enough. A question if I might.

Currently I'm trying a combination of both wood and coal type products, so how often should I clean out. I understand that if burning wood it is a good idea to let the ash build up. If just burning coal type products then everyday. But what if you are burning a combination of wood and coal - every day, two days, three days?

Many thanks for your replies and of course any other advice/tips to a newbie at multi burners is welcome

whiteguineapig

dh says you are supposed to burn wood on a "bed of ash"
to be honest it doesn't seem to matter either way!

CandyB101_2

I am now sitting looking at my newly installed log burner :-)

We moved into this rented house in June. Removed the fire surround/marble to remove the reminants of the horrible wallpaper, to find an open fire behind. The landlady was more than happy for us to use an open fire :-)
Then our friend informed us that he still had his old log burner in the garage ... and gave it to us for FREE!!!
So the whole thing has cost us nothing to install!!!

This week OH has been working opposite B&Q. He went over to see if they had any old pallets he could have for kindling and to make a log store (told a little fib and said it was for the brownies/scouts to make things out of) and he said I can do better than that ... for £1, you can have all that on that trolley ..... OMG, I'm not kidding you, they were going to skip it all, he came home with packs and packs of different wood, joists, planks, treated wood, skirting, paneling .... there must be about 60 pieces .... so now we have loads of wood for the base of the decking outside! All too good to burn :T

Told him to never pass a B&Q again !!!!

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We only burn wood and I clear the ashes completely every morning, I find our stove runs better this way. If I leave the ash in the bottom it takes forever to get it lit in the evening, I think it slows the airflow from underneath. We use waste wood from whatever source we can find, we have the old decking from the village pub, off cuts from our local builder who has to pay to take them to the tip, gifted garden cullings (Big branches, tree trunks, even an old tumbledown wooden shed on one occasion). Our best aquisition though was when the contractors were putting in a new major gas main in the village and the big yellow pipes came in hardwood cradles which they were more than happy to give to us, even going so far as to deliver dumper loads to us onto the drive, doesn't get any better than that, thank you guys, Cheers Lyn x.