Stove + Twin Flue Pics

wintergirl

He are a couple of pics of our stove and twin flue installation.
For anyone thinking about putting in a stove, I would really recommend it. The heat these things give out are amazing.
Don't be fooled into thinking its an easy option to other forms of heat though. You have to think about where to store the coal or logs. And buying logs by the load is not always that cheap. Stoves are pretty messy when in use, so again, not for everyone!
Having said that though, I love our stove, and even though we had problems with the inital install, I can't help but smile to myself as the evenings start to get colder, and we fire it up for the night.


2012-10-28 19.06.33 by Lizzy407, on Flickr


2012-10-28 19.06.09 by Lizzy407, on Flickr

suisidevw

Looks beautiful. What model is it? Mine being fitted on Thursday. Can't wait!!!!

Ectophile

It's surprising how much heat even a small stove can put out.

On a moderately chilly evening, like today, my 5KW stove can heat the whole house (3 bed semi) to the point where the central heating thermostat turns off. I just have to leave all the doors open for the heat to spread.

wintergirl

suisidevw wrote: »

Looks beautiful. What model is it? Mine being fitted on Thursday. Can't wait!!!!

Thanks suisudevw. Its an Aarow Sherbourne Small Multi Fuel (5kw). We would have loved to get a Clearview, or Morso 6140, but with the price of the twin flue install through the house as well, we just couldn't stretch that far!
We are pleased with the Aarow though; its pretty controllable, and throws out a ton of heat once up to temp.
Its sitting on a polished black slate hearth. We originally thought about granite, but the place we got the stove from recommended slate, as they said although granite looked nice, it can scratch really easily. If you get a mark on the slate it can be polished out with a little black shoe polish.

What stove are you having fitted on Thursday?

suisidevw

Well it looks absolutely beautiful!

I have put a Charnwood C4 in and it's sitting in position, hearth all pointed etc so the guys are coming up to get on the roof and put it down etc. I flipping HATE heights! Pics coming tomorrow

C_Mababejive

Looking good. Can anyone tell me about the discharge of effluvia from such appliances? I mean,i remember years ago we had the clean air act and i thought you could only now use smokeless fuel? how does this square with combustion of all sorts of stuff on such stoves? I would have one in my house...:)

suki1964

if you burn the correct fuel there's no problems with effluvia

Seasoned wood - or smokeless fuels

alleycat`

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Looking good. Can anyone tell me about the discharge of effluvia from such appliances? I mean,i remember years ago we had the clean air act and i thought you could only now use smokeless fuel? how does this square with combustion of all sorts of stuff on such stoves? I would have one in my house...:)

Depends where you live to what you can burn.
I'm just inside a city boundary and it means i'm limited to smokeless fuel. To burn any form of wood i had to have a minor modification to my stove to meet the DEFRA clean air requirements.

The modification means my top "vent" can only be closed about 80% (and that's about it really).

My nearest "stove" neighbour lives about 500 yards away across a field and because they are not in the city boundary they have no such restrictions in this regard.

Understand the point behind it and that a line has to exist somewhere but it is somewhat humorous that 500 yards makes "such" a difference.