Woodburning stove recommendations please

Man_Overboard_2

hubb wrote: »

we have to keep the door shut while our middle room fire is lit as smoke comes down the chimney in the front room

Any lighted fire needs a considerable supply of air, and in draught-proofed houses this can create problems. It is possible that your middle room fire is drawing air down your front room chimney, and, depending upon the wind conditions at roof level, this may well mean that the smoke from your middle room fire is simply getting sucked down the adjacent chimney pot. Lining either or both of your chimney flues will make absolutely no difference at all.

As an experiment. next time your front room is filling with smoke, try opening the middle room window (thus offering an alternative air supply for the chimney).

hubb

Our stairway is open in the middle room and a huge draught comes down the stairs sometimes. Also, if it's windy outside the smoke doesn't come back down as much so you may be right. having a wood burner in the front room sealed should hopefully stop it. When we had some hi-tech and expensive sweeps out years ago they wouldn't sweep it and said the mid feathers had gone in between the 2 flues which would need lining.

Man_Overboard_2

hubb wrote: »

Our stairway is open in the middle room and a huge draught comes down the stairs sometimes

The huge draught may be created by the demands of the middle room fire

If you put a sealed woodburner in your front room fireplace, then you have to calculate where it will get it's air from, and whether the middle room fireplace will continue to function (except as an air supply for the front room woodburner)

muckybutt

hubb wrote: »

Our stairway is open in the middle room and a huge draught comes down the stairs sometimes. Also, if it's windy outside the smoke doesn't come back down as much so you may be right. having a wood burner in the front room sealed should hopefully stop it. When we had some hi-tech and expensive sweeps out years ago they wouldn't sweep it and said the mid feathers had gone in between the 2 flues which would need lining.

It is in the regs that if the rating of the stove is over 5Kw then you will need an external vent putting in to replace the air drawn into the stove for combustion, no vent and it wont get signed off.

hubb

That shouldn't be too difficult if needed.

english-law

Man_Overboard wrote: »

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

Do you have one of their stoves? Which one would you recommend? I live in a smoke-control area.

stinky_5000

I got a Charnwood Country4, I love it. It has a good big window and looks great (i think) not too fussy.

howardtog

Just replacing a Jetmaster with a stove and having read the thread:
Our Jetmaster is with amasonry chimney and is easy to sweep (or no one has complained for the last twenty years)
We are replacing it with a stove because a stove is more efficent and economic.For us in particular we dont like to leave the Jetmaster unattended whereas you can with astove.
when choosing stoves you get what you pay for and a number of suppliers have great websites. Weve been very pleased with our Hunter in another room but as the new stove is a feature in our main room will get a more attractive model than the Hunter range.Having researched and looked at friends different stove I do not think there is much difference for medium price range and up other than asthetics.Weve not even looked at any cheap Chinese or E european models
Concerning the correspondence on DIY installation DO NOT. If its not Hetas installed then your insurance company would rightly have cause for concern .(either before or worse after any claim)A stove should last for many years as should a properly installed lining.

english-law

howardtog wrote: »

Just replacing a Jetmaster with a stove and having read the thread:
Our Jetmaster is with amasonry chimney and is easy to sweep (or no one has complained for the last twenty years)
We are replacing it with a stove because a stove is more efficent and economic.For us in particular we dont like to leave the Jetmaster unattended whereas you can with astove.
when choosing stoves you get what you pay for and a number of suppliers have great websites. Weve been very pleased with our Hunter in another room but as the new stove is a feature in our main room will get a more attractive model than the Hunter range.Having researched and looked at friends different stove I do not think there is much difference for medium price range and up other than asthetics.Weve not even looked at any cheap Chinese or E european models
Concerning the correspondence on DIY installation DO NOT. If its not Hetas installed then your insurance company would rightly have cause for concern .(either before or worse after any claim)A stove should last for many years as should a properly installed lining.

I'm just looking in to Jetmaster's stoves and they look very attractive. British made and incredibly efficient… might be worth a look at.

But as for your old open fire, didn't you have a spark guard?

howardtog

Yes we do have a sparkguard which is fine if you are leaving the fire for some time. Problem we found was if we left a roaring fire for afew minutes. We only burn seasoned hardwood so spitting was rare and never had a problem. Neverthless its an ongoing advantage any stove has over an open fire.
In general Jetmasters are rated 40% efficent (an open fire is 20%ish) and any stove would be at least 75%.Realise these are a little arbitrary but a stove is more efficent (and safer sparkguards notwithstanding)
There have been numerous threads on cost effectiveness and in my opinion if you are buying wood (we dont) it is difficult to make an economic case for even the most efficent stove.If your wood is free and time spent collecting storing et cetera is also free then there is a case. Which ever there is nothing to beat the toasty feeling of a hot stove /fire on a cold winters night