Honed Slate Two Piece Hearth - Poor Match

Davesnave

UPDATE: I fitted a new hearth today. It's in riven green coloured slate from the Ardosia Slate Company, who built up the front and sides to 40mm, as an alternative to charging the full 40mm price. I like it better than the honed one from M C Slate, as it looks a little more substantial.

The wood burner installers, Kenwyn Stove & Chimney Co, have been great too. They're making sure I'll have the new stove for Christmas.

It's all good. Photo when finished.

Kiran

Glad it's all started going right for you

Davesnave

Sorry, photo's not great, but this was the final result.



Fire, Woodwarm Firegem, is efficient and easy to control.

Doozergirl

Looks lovely!

Kiran

Came good in the end. Worth the wait, now begins the obsession with collecting wood!

Davesnave

Kiran wrote: »

Came good in the end. Worth the wait, now begins the obsession with collecting wood!

I've got that: a rolling programme of felling small stuff on our land every winter. The fields are tacked-out for livestock with the payment in logs!

We had a wood burner before; a huge old Aarrow, which was OK, but at about 8kw it chewed through the logs and too much heat went up the unlined chimney. It also stuck out in the room, so this is an improvement all round.

We are probably warmer using this one. No oil used for days!

phoebe1989seb

The new woodburner looks really great Dave, glad you went with the replacement hearth - much better than the mis-matched one you were fobbed off with originally

Love the terracotta behind the stove! Any decisions on a wall colour yet?

We could do with a woodburner here.......a 20ft+ deciduous tree was unexpectedly uprooted in the garden last night, so we now have masses of logs - or will have when DH had chopped it all. Fortunately no damage to wildlife or other planting/fences etc. No wind or exessive rain to cause it either. Very odd

Davesnave

Hi phoebe, the walls are going to be a misty grey I think, like a colour I picked out, but that could change as we're not finishing it just yet. Lots of other things to do, unfortunately!

Bad luck about the tree. It will be 2 years before it will be good for a fire.

phoebe1989seb

Misty grey sounds lovely Dave

Mmm, two years.......so it's unlikely to be us that will get the benefit as we'll have hopefully moved on by then

DH did a little exploratory poking around in the soil earlier and thinks the root cause - pardon the pun - is that the tree roots were very shallow, having spread out over a paved area we were unaware existed so it seems as though the tree outgrew the space it was planted in. I hate to lose a tree, so am feeling rather bereft at the moment, sad fool that I am