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Didn't stop using the log burner until late May I think it was, but then being getting the old Squirrel hot for the last month or so now. Early maybe but it's been so cold this year and this old stone house need some warming up.
I luuurve my log burner. So glad we ripped out the open grate last year. :)
I've had a stove for years and think they're great. Even got myself a chainsaw after spending a day with a tree surgeon friend.
I've now moved house and the new place has two stoves with a brand new flu in each chimney. They are amazing compared to the stove in the old house. :thumbup:
Stove on again tonight. Sold my chainsaw at the beginning of the year as I didn't thing we would use the fire much with having the little one but as soon as she goes to bed it's on just lately. If anyone has a glut of firewood please let me know..........
Cooked a rice pud and a sausage casserole on mine tonight. Exciting stuff eh
Our new stove and lined chimney are performing brilliantly - house all toasty warm. Making inroads into the winter log pile, but 2 large dead ash trees due to come down next week, once I can gather some muscle on the rope to pull them over.
I can cook on mine too if I want to :) It has a flat top that you can remove. Must buy one of those witches cooking pots that you can put on top! :)
I am slo going through my winter log pile very rapidly :-o Looks like I am burning the wood faster than the next pile can dry... So need to start looking for wood on the roadside again soon...
We need a storm and a couple of ash and oak trees down ;)
I used to live in the Belgian Ardennes where everyone burns wood. Now follow their practice of storing the cut wood for a full year outside in stacks with the sides open to the wind. Put polythene or corrugated iron on the top. Then bring inside to use the following winter.
really dry wood makes a real difference.
Just stacked my two big bags of logs!!! Should last until next summer! :thumbup:
Owl in the lounge, and Squirrel in the Snug, munching their way through bits of John4of5's old kitchen and bedroom cabinets, thanks John.Quote:
Originally Posted by L.F.F.
How often do folk get their chimney flues swept? And when you do how much comes out?
We had our Owl swept this summer for the first time since putting it in 4-5 years ago (too long by the book, which says sweep every year),
http://www.allyourchimneyneeds.co.uk...-questions.htm
But less than a half-pint-size mug of soot came out, if that, so I stopped feeling guilty even though we do use it often each winter.
It's a lined flue, with a good draw, and a bird cowl on the top, and we do try and stick to well dried wood (seasoned for a year if scavenged raw) so I guess that all goes to help minimise build-up. What's your experience of sweep-frequency vs. build up?
PS. Other pertinent parameters: It's a 10-12m long flue, and we only burn wood.
The sweep is coming on Monday morning. our stove goes into a standard chimney and has not been done for 2 years. I will report backQuote:
Originally Posted by OB1
Our sweep is coming on Tuesday!!! I'll report back too!! :thumbup:
Interesting one! I have been here since the winter of 2006, which is also when I put the stove in, and I have never had the chimney swept. I burn seasoned wood and occasionally a bit of coal. It is a streight stainless steel flu that goes streight through the roof. It has always drawn very well and has one of those bird/debri thing on the top too, after a young bird and two bats got trapped in the stove one summer!
Will be interested to see how much comes out and take it from there, as I was thinking of having it swept...
An all-dayer today. Lit it before breakfast and it's still going now. Great.
Check your home insurance, some say you need to declare a wood burner or open fire and that they need to be swept every year by a registered sweep. If you need to and havent or havent got a reciept from a sweep then you won't be covered if you have a chimney fire.Quote:
Originally Posted by OB1
Good tip Ian, will have a look...
OZPIG is great :thumbup: I have to get a bigger flu though to take the smoke out of the gazebo.
just put some chesnuts in a pan on the top and some baking potatoes in side...
Nice!! :thumbup: The next night I'm off and at home I'm defo doing tatties in mine!! Marshmallows on a fork too!!Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Mine is roaring with last years hazel :)
Must get one of those cast iron pots to go on top, you can roats chestnuts in them too :)
I just chucked an empty toblerone box on mine
Hmmmm Toblerone...
Do any of you use a moisture monitor on your logs, any info appreciated? Thinking of buying one for my sister as a Christmas present - which I could borrow :sneaky:.
I've just realised there are eight blumming pages of today's whatever threads in this forum and I still can 't find the one I want.
Moisture monitor for logs= too much time on your hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
If they spit when you put them on then they are too wet.
Just finished installing our new woodburning stove, bring on the cold weather:thumbup:
If the stove is new remember small fires for the first few day. don't get it cherry red on the first burn.....:)Quote:
Originally Posted by markmc
Sat in front of mine at the moment on the lap top. toasty!!
Mines cooking a Goulash right now - clever isn't it?
That's right Ian, i have just set a small fire using kindling and opened all the windows in the room too as it don't half smell with been new. Cracking little stove its a firefox 5.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Agreed, but they are academics. When I tell them the wood is too wet they pay no attention, if a digital gizmo tells them it is too wet, they may take notice!Quote:
Originally Posted by millipede
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About time this came out again. Hope you've all had your chimneys swept?
Aaah, no races this weekend, and am fed up of just getting blown back inside every time I try to step through the back door.
I am finally getting round to breaking up and burning the village church hall's old chairs I acquired last year for a small donation.
Toasty!
Fired it up yesterday, firing it up tonight.