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Winter's almost on us, the Stihl has had a brushdown and the dancing orange light behind the square glass pane is casting shadows across the room - the dormant cast iron monster, alive again breathing it's red hot breath. Beware Jack Frost beware!
Anyone else cracked their's up then?
Bought one a couple of months ago which is currently sat there waiting for winter to properly start so it can finally be used. I'm probably one of the few people looking forward to temperatures plunging.
A winter treat awaits you!Quote:
Originally Posted by L.F.F.
Can't beat it when it's free carbon neutral heat.
I've got a fella looking at my broken boiler tonight. Sounds like I should have nipped over to Accy for a warm up Ady :D
Yer careful Ady, we will all be knocking at your door :D
BYOL* party at Ady's! :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by OneHillWonder
*Log, obviously.
These wood burning stoves always get on my lungs and I end up coughing and wheezing if I stay close to them for long. I was in the Asheton Arms in Downham over Pendle way having a meal a few weeks back and they had one and they had sat us next to it as we had prebooked. I had to get up and move eventually it was that bad. Must be something to do with ventilation I suppose as I can't believe they are all like that ?
I don't know the science behind them Alf, but my dad has one and it's fine, no problems at all. (He has expained it all to me, but it went right over my head :D)
He's also go one on his boat that isn't so high-tech and that can get a little smokey sometimes.
We had one fitted last year.:w00t:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
It has been on for a few days now on and off, I love coming down in the mornings to a really warm room as it's been on low burn all night. Even when it goes out it kicks out heat for ages.
Q) though Ady does yours 'tick' (now waits for loads of jokes about trying to light a fire in a clock:rolleyes:) as it warm's up. once it's up to heat it's nice and quiet but as it warms up the metal ticks(like radiators sometimes do when cooling down)
A stove shouldn't give any thing off as all the air is drawn in and goes up the Flue,it should only give off heat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
I went through Downham on the bike this morning and noticed there were a few chimneys emmiting smoke, you could smell it as we went through. With open fires you do get more of a smell than a closed stove even though the smoke drafts up the chimney so it must be this that puts you off you food Alf - no smell at all with the stove.
I think most stoves are made up of several fairly loose fitting panels so the occasional pinging is the expanding or contracting of the various parts.
Yes, exactly. I really enjoy the whole process, from the collecting to the chopping to the burning!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
I had an open fire before, but I'm looking forward to the efficiency of the stove.
Well last night I got back from my run and just tweaked the central heating a bit. Sorry but Ive not the time to get into all that woodstove burning.
I dont know how I would find time to start going out sawing up wood. ?
Wish I had a wood burning stove here at work to put my feet in front of. 2 pairs of socks today and still my feet are like blocks of ice http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/images/icons/icon9.png
a man of your means could buy it ready cut.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
and don't they use wood on building sites, plenty of free wood there.:w00t:
I bought some chesnuts from the local green grocers yesterday, they be getting roasted tonight.:thumbup:
Daz h, I would give you "the wood man"'s number - brings it ready cut, and seasoned (is that the right word for when it has been dried out?)
Love the woodburner, would never be without one. In fact we don't have any central heating or other heating in the house (save one electric storage heater to leave on when we go away). Alight every night now, a few logs on and thats it for the evening - a lovely warm glow.
Have you had your chimney checked? At the cottage in N. Stainmore my gran and grandad used to leave the Parkray on slow burn overnight which as you may already know causes incomplete combustion resulting in excess production of CO (Carbon Monoxide). One night the flue leaked in the loft, my gran woke up in Carlisle hospital many hours later but my grandad fortunately got up to go to the loo and managed to shout my uncle in the next bedroom as he crashed to the floor and was knocked out by the door on his way down. My uncle had to run cross country (he was a keen HM runner) to the nearest house to raise the alarm as we didn't have a phone line in those days, not even mains water.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Everyone was ok in the end but if my grandad hadn't got up to take a leak they'd have suffocated as they slept, the incident was blamed for weakening grandad's heart and he died of a heart attack a few years later. It's probably little known but anyone using a stove on slow burn needs to be cock sure of the integrity of their flue, sorry for lowering the tone but i thought it was worth mentioning :).
Interesting! Our flue should be ok, It's pot lined and cemented in. We did have it checked last year before having the stove fitted and it got the all clear. we've also extra ventilation in the room.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
What was worrying was after we had decided to go a head with the fitting, We got a gas man to come and remove the old stove and he was stunned at the crass ineptitude of the person who fit the gas fire. He would have turned the gas off he said and condemed it. No venting had been fitted and there were CO3 marks all around the fire!!!. Luckily we hardly ever used it. But it is a salient lesson.
Will take a piccy this week and we can have some 'stoves in action' shots..........................:D
Numb hands running last night, scraping ice off the windscreen of my car this morning... Looks like the wood burner might be taking its maiden voyage imminently:)
It was the fact that it leaked into the loft that was the problem at the cottage, some guys came round with smoke bombs and found the leak, i mthink that's how they test them.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Yes! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
Mind you those coal burning fires were not the safest either :w00t:
http://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/04-30.htm
remember to make sure that the stove doesn't get too hot the first time that you use it - that includes an old stove after the summer. Probably not a problem with just wood but could be if you add a bit of coal as well.
your correct in saying i could afford itQuote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
would i want the hassle of chopping pallets and wood up and for that matter having a woodpile( no).
Ian, someone here asked me the question. Do you have to notify your insurance company you have one ?
Maybe Im biased but a friend of mine at school got burned by a fire when he was young and ive always said to myself i would never take that risk with children. Dont have any chemicals in the house either.
Now I dont often post on here these days but I can almost guarantee my wood burning stove is bigger than any of yours.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
Yep that's how they tested oursQuote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
I Don't think so with a stove but maybe with an open fire. When you have a stove fitted you get a tag/certificate to say that it has been fitted in accordance with fire/building regs, if you have one of those then I can't see a problem Certainly Mrs IDP doesn't think so. If however you fit one with out the the tag/certificate you might not be covered. Also when you sell the house it will be a problem as with out the Tag/certificate you may need to put it all right.Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Mini IDP is now safe around fires and she won't toast marsh mallows unless we're there.
AJ I bet Nickys won't be far off, I bet I could get in it!!!!
Come on people, photos :thumbup:
Here's where i'm going to put my woodburner when i get our house...
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1094/...d51c4d520f.jpg
I remember wondering how father xmas got in!
There is quite a degree of smugness when your house if heated with free fuel and the central heating is in the off position. Also sawing wood up can be considered a sort of a hobby.................sort of. The smell of 2 stroke does it for me. Pics tommoz - in too late to light it tonight and will probably be asleep in 10 mins so complete waste of newspaper!Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Had the stove lit for the first time tonight and it didn't disappoint. Each log lasted so much longer than in the old open fire. Feels good to have got it going. Roll on winter (at least from an indoors, sitting by the fire perspective).
Regarding the chopping and collecting, I agree about the smugness of having the heating off and sitting in a house warmed completely by your own efforts. Does feel good. The more self-sufficient the better for me, although I agree it is a job getting the wood in the first place, although I look at doing that and the sawing as good exercise!
This is my wood burning stove, in the basement. Its really needed over here to offer at least some warmth during power cuts in the winter. It seriously blasts out some heat and you have to watch you dont let it get too hot
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Invalid attachment!!! Go on - admit it - it's a 2 bar lecky fire with one of those plastic logs that lights up :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajohns352000
here's mine
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Very nice Ian - can you fit a kettle on the side?
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Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
It looks a beauty, does it dry your fellshoes well. I once burnt mine on luvshacks
Woodburners??? Where do you put the chuffing stereo????????? :D
Are thems Quad speakers Dom?
No but yo can get one on the top. The tops pretty good for roasting nuts, I've cooked poatoes In it and I'm fancying trying to cook a stew etc like a slow cooker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
No chance shoes go in a covered porch outsideQuote:
Originally Posted by daz h
AVI NuNeutron Fed by an Arcam Alpha 9 Amp and Arcam Alpha 7 CD player. Still sounds the dogs nadgers over 10 years after I bought it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
Nice Ian, drying out your logs there aswell :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak