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I have seen an Ivar 5 with a buckled casing, turns out the casings were made in the Soviet Union then sent to Belgium to be assembled into stoves, only 1 though and the stoves do have a decent reputation within the trade. A

The ceiling boards are combustible, single skin flue pipe requires a minimuk clearance to combustibles of 3 times its diameter. So the twin wall will need to come down from the ceiling by a miniumum of 375mm or 450mm depending on flue size. Same clearance is required to plasterboarded walls. There will be step where the single skin connects to the twin wall, usually 25mm/30mm all round. Ask you wife which look she prefers, then go with that, happy wife = happy life. Heat output difference you wont notice. Have attached a couple of pics of projects we have completed to show you. The tall stove is a Charnwood ARC7 with log store base with a black 150mm ID Poujoulat TI flue system compleated a few weeks ago. The lower stove is a Charnwood ARC5 with a colour matched 130mm flue system by Poujoulat, this one was a few years ago when we were allowed to fix cement board to plasterboarded walls to act as a heat shield. These days an air gap is now required. A

I advise the use of a direct air supply when the stove is against an external wall, this is part of our costings letter to prospective clients: . A typical 5kw stove will use around 25 cu m of air an hour, if a direct air kit is installed then this air is drawn from outside the property, piped into the stove, burnt, then passes up the chimney. If a direct air kit is not fitted then 25 cu m of hot air are drawn from the stove room into the stove, burnt and passes up the chimney. This then depletes the hot air in the room. So for optimum efficiency install a direct air kit if the stove can accept one. If you have a short flue or one with bends in it then we STRONGLY advise direct air being installed. A

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