Woodburning stove recommendations please

Greenfires

They're a pig to sweep - unless you can drag the whole bloody thing out of the fireplace opening to do it and put it back afterwards! Been there - trust me!! ;-)

Man_Overboard_2

Greenfires wrote: »

They're a pig to sweep - unless you can drag the whole bloody thing out of the fireplace opening to do it and put it back afterwards! Been there - trust me!! ;-)

If there was any kind of understanding between designers, installers, sweeps and customers, there would be no problem!

Recent jetmasters are much better than earlier ones, and under brick-built flues they are mostly ok - the problems arise with narrow (ceramic) flues and (metal flexible) flue liners

Greenfires

I've obviously not swept any recent ones then! I've only seen two in my area - though some sweeps are plagued with them. These two are both in brick flues in big houses - both belonging to Doctors funnily enough - and the problem is getting a decent sized brush through the outlets at the top of the stove - once you're into the chimney you're fine, but then of course you have a job removing everything you've swept from the top of the fire casing on the other side of those outlets. Stoves are a doddle in comparision, and a lot more efficient too - I'd stick with one of them!

Man_Overboard_2

Greenfires wrote: »

I've obviously not swept any recent ones then! I've only seen two in my area - though some sweeps are plagued with them. These two are both in brick flues in big houses - both belonging to Doctors funnily enough - and the problem is getting a decent sized brush through the outlets at the top of the stove - once you're into the chimney you're fine, but then of course you have a job removing everything you've swept from the top of the fire casing on the other side of those outlets. Stoves are a doddle in comparision, and a lot more efficient too - I'd stick with one of them!

Jetmaster stoves are not cheap. but I have never met a Jetmaster owner who is not 100% satisfied with their purchase (there are many stove installations which require the stove to be moved in order to facilitate a chimney clean - the problem is not unique to Jetmasters - it's just part of the job)

There are other brands available which use the same principle as Jetmasters, but have different design details

Greenfires

A properly installed stove should never have to be removed in order to sweep it! In fact it's a condition of the installation requirements that it should be able to be swept without being moved.

I do sweep quite a few chimneys - being a chimney sweep - and I would never remove a stove to sort out a chimney. I would suggest that the customer have it installed properly. In fact if I did remove it and re-install it, it would technically be against regs as I'm not a qualified fitter.

wintersunseeker

We have a Hergom (Spanish make) multi-fuel cast iron stove which came with the house, but had been converted to run an oil central heating system. The system had to be replaced and we would like to get the stove back into use as a wood burner, but have had no luck in finding any-one to do it. Does any-one have any advice which might help us to do the greener thing and bring this stove back into use - and save us a small fortune on oil...

Man_Overboard_2

wintersunseeker wrote: »

We have a Hergom (Spanish make) multi-fuel cast iron stove which came with the house, but had been converted to run an oil central heating system. The system had to be replaced and we would like to get the stove back into use as a wood burner, but have had no luck in finding any-one to do it. Does any-one have any advice which might help us to do the greener thing and bring this stove back into use - and save us a small fortune on oil...

Unless you have a reliable and cheap source of well-seasoned hardwood, then I doubt whether you will achieve any relief by re-converting the old stove back to it's original purpose.

I would recommend replacing it with a modern oil system.

Man_Overboard_2

Greenfires wrote: »

A properly installed stove should never have to be removed in order to sweep it! In fact it's a condition of the installation requirements that it should be able to be swept without being moved.

I do sweep quite a few chimneys - being a chimney sweep - and I would never remove a stove to sort out a chimney. I would suggest that the customer have it installed properly. In fact if I did remove it and re-install it, it would technically be against regs as I'm not a qualified fitter.

How do you cope with the stove which sits on the hearth in front of the fireplace with a short horizontal length of flue-pipe leading from the back of the stove into the fireplace?

muckybutt

Man_Overboard wrote: »

How do you cope with the stove which sits on the hearth in front of the fireplace with a short horizontal length of flue-pipe leading from the back of the stove into the fireplace?

Personally I would walk away from a job like that unless there was access into the chimney to sweep from there.

I have recently walked away from a few jobs where they havent been installed correctly, the most recent being a Morso rear flued into a 10" clay pot liner, 6" flue from stove. Couldnt getthe soot trap off at rear of stove as that was posisioned too close to the wall and certainly couldnt get rods up let alone a 10" brush.

Ended up having to chop in a soot box externally and core drill a hole into the clay liner, at least now it can be swept and swept easily.

2 sweeps before me had also seen the job and walked away from it because there was no access.

Man_Overboard_2

muckybutt wrote: »

Personally I would walk away from a job like that unless there was access into the chimney to sweep from there.

I have recently walked away from a few jobs where they havent been installed correctly, the most recent being a Morso rear flued into a 10" clay pot liner, 6" flue from stove. Couldnt getthe soot trap off at rear of stove as that was posisioned too close to the wall and certainly couldnt get rods up let alone a 10" brush.

Ended up having to chop in a soot box externally and core drill a hole into the clay liner, at least now it can be swept and swept easily.

2 sweeps before me had also seen the job and walked away from it because there was no access.

Do you know who did the original installation?

Did you walk away, or did you fix the problem by chopping in a sootbox?