Has anyone installed a wood burner?

[flymo]

Originally Posted by dirtyred619

Where did you get the liner from, as I've seen people band about prices like £100/m? And is it twin walled? The other solution I'd heard is get a single wall liner then fill the area of the chimney around it with Vermiculite? or something so just trying to get a better idea of the best way to go and more importantly costs.

PM me your email address, I have a technical paper that describes what you need and why.

[yorkie_chris]

We've got one at my parents place.

The burner was a cheap one and it definitely shows. Load of modification to it to make it so you can throttle it anything like properly, plated over the air inlet at back and replaced with a butterfly valve, resealed the ash box etc. It's still crap!*
Best thing we did was duct some cold air from the underdrawing of the house to the back of the stove, lets the stove suck cold air directly rather than from every other draught in the house.

With 10 years or so of open fire and then the stove 3 ro 4 years ago they've never had the chimney swept which is probably not wise but no issues yet. We don't really bother seasoning wood either, just throw anything relatively dry on if we've nothing else.

Get a dunsley yorkshire or similar, they are absolutely the mutts nuts.
Do NOT buy cheap crap stoves, they are worse than an open fire, stick a log on and get 10 minutes of heat like a jet engine and it's gone!

No idea about health risks, sounds like bollox to me, the stove will be sucking air in so even with a little leak it won't be letting gas out.


*I've honestly built better out of old propane bottles! That's what I'd make now if we owned our own place just pretty one up a bit, set it up as side-flow with some secondary air inlets and good control.

Originally Posted by BoltonSte

I've got one...but our chimney was shot...pretty sure it had the draw but the mortar wasn't the best in the loft after having a leaking ridge.

We decided to go with a liner , You can fit the liner yourself though,.

you can fit the liner your self,but if anything was to happen to you or you house(a fire or carbon monoxide poisoning) then you would be in the sh!t(possibly dead),as flue liners come under the same regulations as gas,and must be fitted by a gas safe person,even the roofer who use to do liners for my bose wont touch them as he isnt gas safe and it aint worth taking the risk and his insurance wont cover him

Strangely enough, I am also looking into this, although I believe the regs are a lot more lax on this in Scotland.

My chimney is in use as a flue for my old gas back boiler, which should be ripped out and replaced with a combi oiler ithin the next few weeks and as I will be left with e gaping big hole in the living room, I have decided I'd love a stove. Gonna get a sweep to check out chimney and if all is well, I won't bother with a flue, spending the money saved on liner etc on a better quality stove.

[yorkie_chris]

Aye a decent stove will pay for the extra many many times over in saved effort chopping fuel!

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Aye a decent stove will pay for the extra many many times over in saved effort chopping fuel!

I am not allowed in charge of an axe. Someone else would do it for me....hahah!

[punyXpress]

Originally Posted by chris8886

open fireplaces are the nuts, the smell, the saving on heating bills, chopping the wood etc tis all brilliant!

. . and 90% of the heat going straight up the orifice into the sky?
Had that, and a good woodburner makes all the difference:
Prompt lighting
Plenty of real heat when you want it
And controllable when you're warm enough, thank you.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by punyXpress

. . and 90% of the heat going straight up the orifice into the sky?
Had that, and a good woodburner makes all the difference:

+1

Very interesting read just looking into this myself although I think I will have to hold off until next year as spent too much money on the house already.

I love having an open fire but sometimes feel like its a losing battle and creates more of a draft than heat.

Have a boarded up fireplace in bedroom too so need to do some research

[BoltonSte]

Originally Posted by dirtyred619

Where did you get the liner from, as I've seen people band about prices like £100/m? And is it twin walled? The other solution I'd heard is get a single wall liner then fill the area of the chimney around it with Vermiculite? or something so just trying to get a better idea of the best way to go and more importantly costs.

get flymo's paper, but are you looking at flue liners or flues at that price? As I have a chimney, I had a flue liner dropped in, pretty sure it was 316 outer and 904 inner as I was told at the time that the 904 stands up to the corrosive gasses you get from multifuel (mine) much better than 316.

Here's a link http://www.stovesareus.co.uk/chimney...ade-liner.html

As far as I know...and may be way off the mark, the twin walled rigid flues would be used if say you had a new build style house (example or a box room with no provision for a chimney) and wanted to have a stove put in, so basically it would be exposed and the twin wall keeps the outer cool.