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As a Morso dealer who has sold a few Doves over the years it is a lovely old stove but was designed to burn solid fuel principally. It was discontinued in 2018 having been in production since around 1983. Burning wood then its unlikely to idle as wood is far easier to conbust than solid fuel. A

Boiler stoves are designed to burn very slowly and use solid fuel for optimum performance. The 2022 Eco Design legislation that came into place in the UK on 1st Jan makes it an offence for a stove manufacturer to supply a stove that does not conform to the new regs. Boiler stoves slow burning makes the gases given off pretty dirty thus pretty well all are now banned from sale. Dealers can still sell ex display or ones they have in stock. I am advised that Dik Guerts have a 2022 compliant boiler stove ( Ivar 10 H20) with about 5kw to the room and another 5 to the water, but lead times are very long. Arada and Hunter are working on getting a 2022 compliant boiler stove, these will probably involve catalytic filters in the base of the flue. Using solid fuel these will block very quickly so the new generation of boiler stoves are likely to be dedicated wood burners unless someone comes up with a technical step forward. Most solid fuels have now also been banned for sale from manufacturer to dealer, but dealer can still sell stock bought before 31srt Dec 21. Anthracite is continuing along with several of the higher quality smokeless fuels, the latter have had there sulpher content reduced which reduces heat output and their willingness to burn. Someone mentioned Ecoburn 11, steel shortages have meant that Arada put all their steel into the most popular models, so Ecoburn 9,11 and 14 have all been discontinued at present but I would expect them to re appear once the global steel supply situation resolves itself. Clip in boilers for these models are only likely to have an output of 3 or 4kw, only enough for a couple of radiators. A

Hello and welcome. If you interfere with any part of the flue then you become legally liable for it as you are the last person to have worked on it. To remove insulation as I think you are proposing would almost certianly invalidate your household insurance should you ever have a fire. I suggest you get the company who installed it back to advise you, if you are unsure who this was you can check on the Hetas web site ( go into buy a new certificate) or if nothing there check with your local building control office. It sounds like the install is a good job. I found one a few weeks ago with exposed pipe in a wardrobe, and clothes in the wardrobe touching the flue pipe !!. A

And for wall to be classed as incombustable it needs to be 100mm thick of incombustable material ( ie block or facing brick) as with just a tile the heat can transfer throu the tile, which i get. 200mm actually. There are a couple of stove specialists here, it would have been better to hand the job over to a qualified installer at an early stage. Builders who are inexperienced with stoves often get things badly wrong, I have a case in legal hands at present owning to a builder not putting a lintel in over an opening. Home owner demanded we return 2 days later to do the install, but we were booked solid some 2 months ahead, home owner wont pay for the stove that he had to get someone else to install. Another slight issue, Hetas are I understand refusing to allow anyone to sign off a Clearview as most are not compliant with the emissions and efficiency regs of 2014, let alone the new ones of 2022. So you need it signed off by a building inspector which I assume was your intent anyway. A

Discuss with your supplier, send pics as evidence. Should not happen unless rust present when painted over. A

My 560XP has been bad, 2 engine rebuilds, one after only 20 hours use. Pretty good hot starts though. Always used Husky but bought a 462 Sthill for groundwork, now that is one heck of a saw. A

Camera on the end of a sweeping pole, linked to a tablet or laptop. A

Chances are the chimney will be pretty well blocked, get a proffesional chimney sweep in to clean it. If you do install a stove the mortar between the bricks will likely have eroded and would allow smoke into you or next doors property, therefore please make sure a stainless steel flue liner system is installed. A

This is not a DIY project unless you know what you are doing. My advice is to go to your local independent stove shop and get costings to supply and install the stove you like the best. A

The sulpherous fumes from smokeless fuel will condense in the top of the flue liner and deposit corrosive flue products onto it. This will cause 316 grade flue liner to corrode and fail. These new power sweep systems usually rip the corroded liner to shreds. If using smokeless then must use 904 grade flue liner unless the use is very very occasional.

Agreed, There are currently very few boiler stoves that are now available due to the 2022 emissions requirements. I did think none but someone corrected me on that last week. The air inlets on a boiler stove are usually controlled by a thermostat, once the water in the stove is up to temperature then the stove shuts itself down, then the pollution issue can arise. A

What are you intending to burn ? House coal was banned from sale in volumes of under 2 tonnes last year. Most smokeless fuels have either been banned or had their formulations changed to bring the sulphur emissions below the Eco Design 2022 requirements. Solid fuel dealers are allowed to continue to sell stock they bought in before 31st Dec 21. Anthracite ( natural smokeless coal) will continue to be available but is hard to light, does not burn well in a stove due to restricted oxygen supplies but goes 4 hours plus between re fuels. Solid fuels such as anthracite burn from the bottom upwards, they are usually burnt on the grate to allow the oxygen to get under the fire, these fuels burn from the bottom up and need a lot more oxygen than wood which burns from the top down. i would suggest you have a look under your existing grate for any air inlets below the grate, this will usually be on the rear of the firebox. No air inlets then you are wasting your time. Vac the ash out and then see what you have. A

Esse introduced Cats in the uk with their new wood burning models late last year, however their cat is on a slide and has too be slid into place when using. Am personally unsure if thats the way to go on boiler stoves as fumes from same would tend to clog the cat up I would have thought. Time will tell, A A

Arada are working on putting catalyst filters into the top of the stove, they have prototypes in the USA with this system.

Nonexistant at present, not aware of any boiler stove that meets the 2022 emissions regs. A

Modern stoves are designed to comply with the 2022 emissions regulations. Emissions are legally required to be significantly lower than previous and efficiency levels far higher. 16 years ago a stove at 60-65% efficient was good, now its in excess of 80%. This lower emissions are created by not allowing the stove to be closed all the way down, some oxygen is always getting into the firebox. Course heat control is by the volume of fuel loaded. Your stove seller should have gone through wood and/or solid fuel usage when talking to you about what you want from your stove and how you want it to perform. Buying from the web then you are stuffed, all they want is your money, you pay a lower price yes but usually get a far poorer service as a result. A

Many stove manufacturers have their products built in China, India or the old communist block, thats why they can sometimes be cheaper that stoves made from scratch in the UK or Western Europe. I am a dealer for Charnwood, Arada and Esse, all 100% UK built, I also act for Morso and while I have seen a couple of models come in marked on the advise note as made in Hungary I have never had any sort of problem. Temperatures in the firebox can exceed 1000 deg C, so pretty extreme, that level of heat will soon sort the quality of the product used in the build out. My own Morso at home as a baffle plate occasionally, new door rope and a set of bricks every 2 or 3 years, these are to be expected. I did look at a Stovax Stockton 5 the other day with a view to supplying some internal parts, built after 2014 according to the data plate it seemed ok other than needing new internals. Difflock, the outer casing of your Morso is warranted either 5 years or 10, depending on if its steel (5) or cast iron (10), parts inside the firebox do not have any warranty at all, that is standard across the industry with the exception of Charnwood. If you feel that the stove has not given you the service then complain to your point of supply. There should have been a warranty registration card within the stove ( providing it was a UK supply and not a grey import) thus if you filled that in and returned it Morso UK will have a record of same if your supplier has ceased to trade. If its a grey import then the warranty is 12 months only as it was not supplied by Morso UK. A

I am 68, similar probs., have to pace myself on arb waste. Cant manage any more that about 6 cube a day having to manually lift it all onto the processor. A fuelwood Splitta would be handy but my volumes just cant justify the cost. Biggest cause of injury in old men ?, thinking they are young men !. A

4412 is a curved glass, as such only available from Morso. All curved glass is horrifically costly. I usually advise clients to cover it in their household insurance. Been a major Morso dealer since 2009, only bought one curved glass of any type, that was one we broke during an install !!. a

I feel this is a bit like the data regs that came into place in 2018/9 time, lots of wind beforehand but be sensible and all should quietly go away, we have no civil servants to enforce anything anyway. I look after any fly tipping in my village, digging into it looking for evidence of who produced it, this I then pass to my local Env Health inspector who will prosecute. But there are only two Env health inspectors in an area over 30 miles from one end to the other and encompassing a big town and over 150 villages. They have responsibilities for checking food standards in shops and restaurants also so they have more than enough to do without checking how dry anyones logs are, unless they have a complaint of course. A

It did used to be optional but according to Defra it will now be a legal requirement even if you are selling a few bags of kindling, not sure who will enforce it, trading standards have their hands full as do Env Health,

This could be a lack of pull up the chimney, or down drafts causing a lack of pull, or wet wood, or lumps of wood cut to large. Load at least 2 in the firebox, ideally 3, as the fire needs turbulence. If the wood is Ok ( and that is the cause in 95% of the situations) then pull the baffle plate out and sweep the chimney, if all is OK go and buy a pack of kiln dried Birch and try that. A

That's not a Vermont. Looks like a cheap Chinese boat anchor. Doubt any parts available and would not think any installer will want anything to do with it unless it has a CE plate on it. You can check if the install has been certified by a Hetas installer easily enough. Go into the buy new certificate section, put your postcode in the box and see what comes up. Nothing to pay at that point. A

Towed for years with a Disco 2 TD5, 2.7 ton max. Tows it well but going down hill there is almost no engine braking. Would use auto again as a preference, just so much easier. A

As a Stove Industry Alliance retail member I can advise that we have taken steps to disprove the crap that has been bandied about in the press since 2016. The results of this work can be seen here: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=stove industry alliance This wide ranging research proves that emissions from stoves are far far lower than the figures that were being bandied about that were the result of a tiny survey carried out in London. Surprisingly a large amount of PM 2.5 emissions are coming fom outdoor burning from bonfires, BBQs etc, and these emissions are at head level so far more dangerous that emissions from a 10m high chimney. This is scientific data compiled by independent organisation that has no axe to grind one way or the other, suffice to say it is very costly to produce, it is available for you to copy and use but contributions to the SIA would be appreciated to pay for the cost of the research. At the end of the day without it we could all have been out of a job should the govt have decided on an outright ban on wood burning. Believe me that there are people with interests in other camps that would like nothing better and are trying to pull the pollution ticket on anyone that will listen. This data now proves them wrong. Jeremy Vine ran an article on his TV show this week on Channel 5, by the time I saw my request to go on air it was to late but I believe that Charnwood stoves covered the SIA end,. A