No oak???

[Alycidon]

Height of the flue needs to be either 600mm clear of the ridge or 2.3m ( might be 2.5 cant quite remember) away from the top surface of the roof tiles under the building regs.

So height above roof will depend on flue position on roof and roof angle.

 

Cant say I have ever heard on Merlin stoves, google dont show them either.

 

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[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Ok I did the drop this morning. I didn't sift through the log pile much and he got a handful of oak logs in there but 2 years old.

The stove he's had fitted is a merlin 4.5kw, he said it has a double burn system so needs to burn hot and oak is too cool for it. The installer has put a 3 metre flue above his roof to comply with building regs apparently. He said to be honest he didn't know the different woods in the log pile so I said don't worry and just enjoy your fire.

Thanks for all the comments guys.

 

Was looking at Merlin Stoves in Jeffery's in Bovey Tracey today mate; one was running and I must say it was beautiful - I wanted to move into their showroom!

 

Ask him who installed it; I harvested as much data from the chap in there as I could!

[mendiplogs]

I think Oak gets a bad press as it needs alot longer to season. Commercially that is bad news especially when you add in conversion factor. I expect it gets sent before its ready.

 

HI steve your right there mate oak takes too long to season thats bad news ok and oak weight is very high when green we sale just barn dry beech no oak thanks jon

[Stereo]

I don't like oak myself. You have to chop it so small and dry it for so long and if you don't it burns like a pig. Only time I use it is when I have some kind of softwood to mix it 50 50 with.

 

Whenever we get a big oak falling on the farm we ring it really thin and then chop it into small 'bricks' as that's the only way to get the to dry and we don't have a splitter than can cope with a 250mm thick oak ring.