Stoves feedback

[fifer2000]

TomD, Been cutting trees and burning wood all my life. Had lots of woodburning stoves/rayburns etc, but the rayburn nouvelle (slightly older than your 355) just doesn't seen to be cutting it. I even bought some coal,shock horror!!

We've installed it in our new extension and to be honest our plumber was/is a muppet. Told us he knew what he was doing but clearly didn't. He decided we didn't need the Dunsley neutraliser. Think it just scared him really. Any advice greatly recieved tom. The irony is I'm effectivly the local firewood guru!!

[Tom D]

Hi fifer, dont know what your probs are with it but as you say the firebox is small i guess you're struggling to keep it in overnight? we did with ours at first but i have found that using properly dry wood is the key. I know we all think our wood is dry, at least i did, but the only wat to know for sure is...

 

if you get your kitchen scales and weigh 5 random logs off your pile, write the weight on each log and put in oven at 120 to 130deg, overnight in main oven works well.

 

Weigh daily, usually only 2 days, untill no more weight is lost then calculate the lost weight as a percentage of the original, you might be surprised.

 

Another tip i have is to remove the top removable fire brick from the side of the oven, assuming yours is the same as mine. This gives better and faster oven warmups, i think you only need both for burning solid fuel.

 

also clean the boiler monthly when burning wood it soots up really quickly and dampens perfomance.

 

Let me know if I can be of any more help, assuming this was helpful.

[Dean Lofthouse]

we did with ours at first but i have found that using properly dry wood is the key. I know we all think our wood is dry, at least i did,

 

Spot on Tom

 

I thought my wood was dry, till I bought a moisture meter.

 

I'm now getting 10 times more heat for half as much wood.

[fifer2000]

Tom D, Thanks for the advice. Am cleaning boiler plates, and the wood is as dry as I can make it without installing a kiln. I may just be asking too much of it. Only having 2 boiler tappings really threw the plumber. I does do our hot water as well. Manual only rates boiler at 10kw on wood.

[Lancstree]

Has anyone got one of these grey metal burners? Would like some usage feedback if poss

[Mr Ed]

The guy selling them is just down the road from me. They are superbly built, and the combustion design seems spot on. I would buy one quick though, as I think they are selling too cheap. With steel prices hitting £1000 a tonne, expect all this kind of kit to increase in price dramatically.

[Lancstree]

Cheers Ed.. will look into getting one soon

[Lancstree]

Anyone know who is the best to get to install a stove in lancashire? I heard Acorn are pretty good. I just want someone to do the lot - install the fire, repair chimney, sweep it, put hearth in, pot on etc

[skyhuck]

Anyone know who is the best to get to install a stove in lancashire? I heard Acorn are pretty good. I just want someone to do the lot - install the fire, repair chimney, sweep it, put hearth in, pot on etc

 

Could you not do it yourself?

[detritus21]

if you can't do it yourself try D Roberts Heating in Coppull. We got our fire from there but we fitted everything else including the whole heating system