Home DIY

The vents should be low too. So they direct oxygen under, and through the burning wood. As opposed to just being sucked past.

I have a couple of Jotul burners. Havent connected the one upstairs yet, and the previous owners added new flooring without cutting out an area for the burner. So the outlet doesnt meet the entrance to the chimney stack anymore. Plan to bevel it outand lay some copper.

I stayed in a fantastic holiday home in Devon last year that had a really nice modern glass fronted woodburning fireplace with adjustable in and out vents. It was a blustery September and the house was on the top of a cliff. Before I got the hang of adjusting the vents and just left them fully open it would incinerate an entire fireplace's worth of logs to ash in 15 minutes. Properly fierce.

Once I got the measure of it, it was fantasic. Heated the whole place with a lovely, dry heat and no smell or mess at all.

Dammit, we're having one done next month, in place of a gas fire, its coming in at about 2.5k (about 1200 of that is for the stove). The biggest cost is the flue liner. This is not for fire regs - we've got a nice big '70s brick external flue - its to ensure the correct diameter for gas bouyancy to safely carry it out of the chimney without condensing on the inside. You've also got to have a certain hearth depth and if you are going for a freestander, a given amount of space around its sides and top (i.e. no encroaching walls).

Edit: we're getting similar type to what dooks mentioned

We had a terrible mold problem when we moved in.

Can I ask what you did to solve said problem?

Ventilation, primarily- the previous tenants had all the windows permanently locked shut.

We also run a dehumidifier in the room with drying laundry, and I fitted an extractor fan in the shower-room.

what you gon' burn dammit ?

My parents live in the country, I drive a Volvo estate.

Your parents?

I'm not sure the guarantee will be valid after that.

you live in a smoke free zone

That's ok - his parents don't smoke.

i've got one of these in the shed when i was thinking of converting the shed to an office space

fired it up a couple of times
quick to heat the small space to 100F !

wonder if i could hook it up in the house somewhere ?

http://www.thestoveyard.com/catalogue_item.php?catID=4148&prodID=29189&mprodID=12194#.Une4SpXuPcs

You can burn wood in defra approved wood burners.

hmmm checks specifications

sweet

You have a shed with a wood burner dicki? you have suddenly risen in my estimation.

Plastic with a wood burner in the shed.

well shed / workshop
come office bike tinkering space
come storage space come place to get away from the parents

but has woodburner
will move with me when i leave the house

can be seen in the background
with chimney

I think the best plan is for me to get a stove-installer to come round, issue is that they don't seem to respond to emails.

DST who are you using? Will hey come round on a Saturday?

the house i grew up in had three
kept the essential rooms toasty
rest of the house a different matter

brrrrrr

Can I ask what you did to solve said problem?

Gutted the flat, waited for it to dry.

I think.

Yeah, that too- removing all the (sodden, rotting) wallpaper certainly helped.

We had a survey done by http://www.castironfireplacecompany.com/ in kingston. Think it was a week day. had to pay £40 (i think) for it.

For the various people talking about getting someone they know/reliable builders in to do the installation - I know more than one person who has had months of hassle after non-specialists have messed up the chimney lining and other elements of the installation - can be something where it's better to cough up in advance...