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Looking at buying a small battery chainsaw for use laying laurels , cutting ivy away from branches etc. About a 200mm bar. All my electric and battery drills etc are Makita, my chainsaws Sthil and and Husky. Both Makita and Sthil have similar models, i have Makita batteries and charger so that would be the logical choice. Anybody have any thoughts. Thanks A

Probably made by Sunrain in China. Will not comply with current regs. You will be hard pushed to find axdecrnt installer prepared to certify it as safe to use.

Usually it's very difficult to sweep a woodburning cooker from inside the appliance. A sweeping access hatch needs to be incorporated above the appliance. It is a legal requirement to build in sweeping facilities, usually this is through the appliance but cookers are different. Assuming this appliance has flue ways around the oven these will also need to be cleaned along with the underside of the hotplate. Hopefully the manufacturer instruction will show you how this is achieved, if not talk to the company you bought it from. This is where using your local dealer shows its worth. .

Usually within a masonry chimney is a flexible flue liner, unless your property is thatched that is what you are likely to have in place. At 17 years old it will need to be replaced, no installer is going to certify it as safe to use , it's just to risky. Your old Hunter will be around 55 percent efficient, many of the best stoves on the market todsy have an efficiency in excess of 80 percent, this will mean that as long as the stove is correctly installed then you will use around 25 percent less logs for the same amount of heat. I would suggest that a 2022 compliant 5kw nominal heat output stove will do the job nicely and not require additional outside air ventilation that stoves with a nominal heat output of 5.1kw or more require. PM me if necessary. A9

Got prices from Forest Lighter last week, prices are OK but the volumes for me as a small scale seller of logs etc are too high.

UV light will mean those bags will be no more that 2 uses if you keep them in the open... Under an open on 3 sides Dutch barn I usually got about 5 uses out of them. A

Position is to high and far to large for a terciry inlet, looks to be like a stove with an optional water boiler. If the boiler was fitted there was knock out sections for the water pipe. While these could be resealed with washer and bolt a set of firebricks would also need installation to replace the removed water boiler.

Paint will not adhere to shiny stainless pipe. The pipes will need powder coating, it's the only way to do the job properly.

They get their supplies mainly in pellet form from diseased softwood trees from the USA and Canada, none the less chip demand in the UK is leading to a shortage in timber for firewood use. A

Must have been a very old Charnwood, are you getting ash build up on the left hand side of the glass or have they now redesigned them ?. A

Scrap it would be the safest option, you have been burning it to hot or using it without a rear fire brick in place. Seen a couple of Clearview 650s do this. A

New figures release by Defra show that PM2.5 emissions show an 18% reduction since 2012 and 2022. Read the full report here: https://stoveindustryassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/240215SIAStatementAirPollutionStatsFINAL.pdf Profesional members here are encouraged to use this data when talking to the public about installing a stove and the future of firewood as a fuel, there is no cost to you for doing so. The public should be encouraged to replace open fires which are usually around 20% efficient and older less efficient and less clean stoves with a 2022 compliant stove that is ultra clean and ultra efficient. I now have one stove ( Charnwood Haven) at 90% efficient and many in the upper 80s, so x4 the heat from the same volume of fuel as an open fire , or, the same heat level but only using 25% of the fuel to do it. At a national SIA meeting last autumn DEFRA advised the meeting that once gas boilers are banned from being installed into new properties ( 2030) then heating plan is air source heat pumps supported by wood burning stoves providing zonal heating in specific areas of a property. A

Sorry a bit late here. I am a Charnwood major dealer so am perhaps a bit biased but in my opinion Charnwood are probably the world leaders in combustion technolgy at this time. The bigger C series ( 6,7 and 8 ) and great stoves but most people dont have rooms large enough to allow them to work hard. The smaller C4 and C5 are by far the more popular and I usually have 6 or 8 of each in stock at any one time. I have a Skye 7 live in my local showroom in Northants and live Aire 5 and live Haven in my Buckinghamshire one, and my daughter has an Aire 7 in her home. Usually for bigger stoves we sell Aire 7, Skye 7 or Island 2 as they have slightly larger glass areas although I did sell a C6 around Xmas time. I rebuilt a grate on a Charnwood boiler stove installed in 1984 a couple of summers ago, all it has had done to it previously was a couple of door ropes, 38 years use for almost zero maintainence cost. . My Skye 7 in the showroom has now done around 7000 service hours, the only part that required replacement was the baffle fire brick, cost about £70 from memory, cost of ownership with these stoves is very low as they are all well made in the UK from British made steel and cast iron. Many of the cheap stoves I see championed here would be nearing the end of their service life in 7 years. Enjoy, A

Assuming this is a Clearview 750 stove then that stove would usualy require 250mm of non combustible material under the stove. However the Clearview web site suggests that 125mm is enough. Frequently Asked Questions | Clearview Stoves WWW.CLEARVIEWSTOVES.COM Here we have answered some of the more frequent questions on the choosing and fitting of a Clearview Stoves Talk to a good installer before going any further, most Clearview stoves do not comply with the 2022 emissions and efficiency regulations or the 2014 version of the same and as a result many installers will not install a Clearview product. A

A bit late on this one apologies. The Stove Industry Alliance have been fighting this crap on behalf of the stove industry, I would ask you all to spend some time looking at their web site please. Home - Stove Industry Alliance | SIA STOVEINDUSTRYALLIANCE.COM Yesterday figures on air pollution released by Defra on air pollution data shows an 18% reduction in PM2.5 emissions nationally between 2012 and 2022. The SIA issued this press release yesterday: 240215SIAStatementAirPollutionStatsFINAL (1).pdf At an SIA meeting last October DEFRA gave the attending members a presenttion on the future of domestic heating, once gas boilers are banned from being installed into new properties from 2030 then the long term plan is for the use of electrically powered air source heat pumps, however the insulation values of properites built before around 2012 will not be good enough to hold a room temperature above around 14 C, therefore wood burning stoves will be used too provide zonal heating in specific areas. It costs a significant amount of money to fight this sort of stuff which is driven by inaccurate out of date details, having a fry up for breakfast releases far more PM2.5 into the home than a 2022 complaint stove. On test last year a Charnwood C5 BLU wood burning stove was proved to REDUCE PM 2.5 in the home as when the stove door was opened to refuel air from the room containing these particals was pulled into the stove and up the chimney, this is solid independantly verified reserch. The SIA needs all the help financially it can get, however at present membership is only open to stove manufacturers, flue manufacturers, retail stove showrooms, certified stove installers and certified chimney sweeps. But you are free to access the data on the SIA website and social media channels and use this to reassure the public that the outdated and misleading nonsense being peddled in the press etc has been independantly tested and found to be inaccurate in some cases and plain wrong in others. A.