Wood burner not heating up room?

Eldi_Dos

Peachypies12 said:

@ThisIsWeird amazing!! Thank you so much, my weekend is sorted… 

@Eldi_Dos unfortunately not, there are some quite big gaps between the floor boards and the odd larger crack or two so I definitely feel the cold! 

One of the most cost effective ways to improve heat retention in your rooms would be to get floors and skirtings draught proofed.
Might be worth starting a seperate thread for that so the two types of advice do not get mixed up.

Judging by the age of the house and width of the boards I would guess they are one and a quarter inch thick pine, considered the creme de la creme in our town. Well worth looking after and a asset to your house.

ThisIsWeird

Sorry - couldn't resist. It's blowin' a hoolie outside, and rain lashing against the windows.

Ectophile

A couple of late thoughts:-

You said "I use 2 logs and they roughly burn for an hour.".  My little 5kW stove can hold 2 decent size logs.  Yours is much bigger.  The more logs you ram in, the more they heat each other up, and the better the stove burns.  Check your owners manual to see how high you can pile the logs in the stove, then try shoving more wood into it.

Bought wood is very hit-and-miss.  Some stuff from petrol stations, DIY stores and garden centres is rubbish.  Either it's unseasoned, or it's been left out in the rain.  When I first got my stove, I thought it was useless.  Nothing burned properly.  Then I started bulk buying wood in the Spring, and storing it myself all Summer.  By the Autumn, it was nice and dry, and my stove actually started burning properly.  These days, I scrounge green wood, and keep it for at least 2 years before burning it.

ThisIsWeird

Hopefully Peachy's timber - being stored indoors - will be nicely dry.

I presume that timber is not just for show, Peachy?!

Apodemus

ThisIsWeird said:

Sorry - couldn't resist. It's blowin' a hoolie outside, and rain lashing against the windows.

Do I spy a green Safeways box?!  Lol, got to be 20 years old now, but I confess I still use a couple of these for the kindling!

ThisIsWeird

Lawdie, it is indeed - a Greenbox! No idea where it came from :-) Is it Safeway who became Morrisons?

JohnB47

ThisIsWeird said:

Sorry - couldn't resist. It's blowin' a hoolie outside, and rain lashing against the windows.

Aha. Looks good, although a bit 'cold' looking  perhaps because of the camera auto adjust setting? Otherwise, toasty tootsie's. What's with that lump on the stove though? drying?

ThisIsWeird

Lights on bright enough to read by, so that's why not cosier.

Yes, lump already 'dry' from being stored in the garage, but just getting a wee bit drier - as are the side ones.

In the milder weather, stove not needed to be hot enough to scorch...

Grenage

ThisIsWeird said:

Lights on bright enough to read by, so that's why not cosier.

Yes, lump already 'dry' from being stored in the garage, but just getting a wee bit drier - as are the side ones.

In the milder weather, stove not needed to be hot enough to scorch...

The stove should always be hot enough to scorch!

fletcher1985

i got a log burner 2 years ago i dont have a big house i guess my living room is 4.5 metres by 5 metres i have a 5kw burner and it heats the room in 30 minutes. we never need to burner too much at a time as it gets too hot.maybe you are not turning the air flow down? it looks like you have a multi fuel burner so could you use coal gets so much hotter.