Ruddy great big stove and guard for sale - any interest?

[Big J]

As we're moving down to Devon and have a stove already in the new house, I have no need for my present stove. I offered it to our landlords, but they are tight bar stewards and won't pay for anything. 

 

Anyway, it's a 20kw (or thereabouts) Dominator (named after the racing motorbike) stove from the Champion Stove Company. It's had 4 years of use, with some 150 cubic metres of wood put through it. It's in good operational condition, but would benefit from a quick respray before being installed. Negative points are that it could do with a new fire brick at the back of the stove (you could easily order one from Martin Champion) and the baffle plate is somewhat warped. It has no affect on the operation of the stove at all. We've always been really careful with using the fire and have always used a flue thermometer. It has only ever been overfired twice, and each time only for a minute or two. In four years of operation, 9 months a year, that's no bad!

 

It's a brilliant stove. Super simple to use and takes a 26 inch log. Will easily burn overnight on softwood, and really quite efficient. It's provided 95% of the heat for our 200 year old 125 square metre cottage for the last 4 years and is ideal for a tree surgeon with lumpy, horrible firewood as it will take such a large log.

 

It would come with a bespoke and very heavy duty fire guard, made for us by a local blacksmith costing £200. It would also come with two stove fans. One is a Stovax that is a little slow now, and the other is an Aldi fan that works really well. Also a short section of flue would come with it.

 

£350 seem reasonable? Could bring is south, and deliver/meet someone anywhere on the way from Edinburgh to Devon.

Edited June 21, 2018 by Big J

[richardwale]

Looks like it would make a great workshop stove, too hot for my little house!

[monkeybusiness]

I’m interested in this - is it a special build or an off-the-peg jobby? 20kw is a big old stove, and they don’t appear to offer anything of that size on their website. 

[Big J]

It's the first of it's model run. Between myself and my friends, we've had about 7-8 stoves from them and I needed something larger to heat our whole house. As such, he just scales up the design and ours was born. 

 

He does still offer them on the website, but the Dominator listed is the 50cm version at 14kw. 20kw corresponds to the 70cm. 

 

Also very good for cooking on. Space on top (even with the fans) for a frying pan and 2 saucepans.

[Dan Maynard]

Years ago we ebayed a stove which was too big for our living room, lot of bids and good price in the end. Bloke was going to take it to his house in France, had been looking for a big stove for ages but struggled to find one so my impression is that it should definitely sell. I put collection only too, he drove 150 miles to pick it up.

[Rough Hewn]

My brother drove from France to uk to buy an aga for £300.
Should sell fine for that price. [emoji106]