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Possibly, just depends whats in place, hence my comment to get a plumber in. A

Get a plumber in, the issue is if you have a condensing gas boiler if you have a power cut no water gets pumped round the system, the water in the stove then boils and creates steam in about 2 minutes. You need to be able to automatically get rid of excess heat in that situation, usually that is vented up to a cold water tank in the loft but a condensing boiler does not have a cold water tank so one may need installing. Boiler stove projects are best done in the summer, doing one in the winter is asking for trouble if you hit a plumbing snag and so may not have any heating until the snag is resolved. Having said that we are booked to be doing one in December, lady has been stalling it for 3 years. A

Would be better to find a Palax 90 or Posch 350 or 360 in France or northern Europe through Agrifaries. Your search results - Agriaffaires But I am sure Simon Munroe at Wilsons would do a deal especially on a 350 as they have a few about at present. A

Here< bloody busy selling stoves so only just got here today. Right then cast and steel plate stoves. Given the same quality level a cast iron stove will take longer to get hot but hold the heat longer when the fire goes out. Cast iron today is about 80% reclaimed, its melted down then re cast. Once it comes out of the mold it is inspected for any blemishes, some manufacturers have an x ray facility to check castings internally. If a blemish is found then the whole thing has to be re cast, spotting a blemish is easy if you have a finely finished casting such as that on a Morso but others with rougher surface finishes may hide blemishes. The other issue is air bubbles and lack of key additives within cheap castings, usually of Chinese or Soviet origin, the air in these expands and contracts over the stoves usage cycle and eventually the casting cracks. AT that point is usually new stove time. Plate steel stoves providing they are made from thick plate are fine, most good quality manufactures use 6mm - 8mm thick plate, the thicker plate in the higher stress areas. Steel stove bodies are usually built my machine so are more accurately made and are cheaper to produce. Good quality manufacturers then in a traditional sized stove add a cast iron door, that is a market led thing. I have seen Chinese steel stoves with 3mm steel plate, as soon as that gets hot it will buckle. Utter rubbish. The cast iron stove is now about as far developed as it can get with the Morso Badger, production costs for cast are far higher than using steel so almost all manufacturers bringing a new stove to market will launch steel body with cast door but some contempory stoves such as the Esse 125 are totally steel. Stick to a good brand and a steel stove should have the same service life as a cast iron one. The Arada group ( Aarrow and Villager) now offer a lifetime casing warranty, their stoves are all steel body with cast doors. Hope that helps. A

There is somewhere a series of firewood standards I have seen, probably something to do with RHI. The Grade A material is 95% + trunkwood for exactly that reason. A

Most stoves can take 250mm but some smaller stoves are 200mm max. Smaller logs lead to better turbulence within the fire box, more heat, better flame pattern but shorter time between re fills. I cut mostly at 240mm with maybe one in ten at 200mm so that I can usually find one in a stack of needed. A

I use the "Eight Tips for Burning Wood" from that book in my stove user guide, its a good read. A

You say timber is going begging, for 2 years I have been trying to find a reliable cord supplier that will supply me with first thinnings at a price that I can process, store, delivery and make money. That is not £55 a ton that seems to be the going rate delivered when I can import kiln dried crated ready to sell logs for about the same price. I want to buy British timber, OK I only have a small processor so need 300mm or below, I know thats a bit odd, but I have placed orders with three cord suppliers in the last 18 months, all said they are shortly cutting exactly what I need, yet not one stick has turned up. Problem is I need it delivered over the summer as it has to go over 200 yards of grass to get to my stack of cord. With the pound being so strong why should I invest 30k upgrading my processor set up when I can make more money buying it in. I am not surprised that chip for this plant is being imported, teh cost of timber in the UK is currently to high. There is a port in Teeside so it will be heading there I expect. A

The secret is turbulence in the firebox of a stove. The smaller the pieces of wood the more turbulence you get between them and the more dramatic a flame picture you get. The downside is that you have a shorter period between refuelling intervals. In my tests and those of a leading stove manufacturer the optimum all round log diameter is 100mm. These give reasonable flame and reasonable life. In my showroom stove I burn Oak joinery offcuts usually, spectacular fires. A

It is a good stove and will serve you well. Your local Arada dealer should be able to supply spares as required or they can be bought direct from the Arada web site. Any problems with it in service like glass going black pm me. A

I am an Esse cooker dealer. I have sold maybe 30 Esse wood fired cookers over the last few years without a single problem. Of these about half are Ironhearts, we have just taken an order for one for a log cabin in the center of a large woodland block. The air channels running around the oven for the Ironheart and the enamelled cookers are basically the same, the major difference is that Ironhearts have no internal heat insulation so produce 9.7kw of heat to the room. Thats about twice that volume of heat of an average stove. Think of Ironheart as an overgrown stove with a cooking facility. The enamelled cookers have a lot of heat insulation to the sides of the cooker to allow combustible kitchen units to be sited close to these cookers. Water boiler wise the Ironheart has an optional small DHW hot water boiler only, the enamel cookers have optional DHW boiler or a 35,000 BTU central heating boiler. There was a comment about food burning on, the tops of Ironheart are cast iron but there is an enamelled top option that should wipe clean but rough use will possibly chip the enamel. Never sold an enamel top on an Ironheart, they are standard on the enamel wood fired cookers. Morso have just introduced a tall contempory stove with an oven, its the 8229 model and can be seen at the bottom of this page on my web site. morso stoves dealer northants A

How are the bags going to react to the heat applied?. A

You must be strong chaps, I could barely lift some of the pieces and they've been drying for quite a while Timber does not loose a lot of moisture when in the round with the bark in place. A

I have had some kiln dried ash in from the Baltic area this summer, most was 3% or below. I split and tested about 12 bits at random, one was 15%, a couple were 5%, the rest were 3% or under. Stored in an open barn currently the outsides are about 8%, not tested any centers but would expect around 3% or so. Best I have ever done with air dried was about 5% external in Sept, that was in bags under cover for 2 years prior to sale. Currently I am at about about 12%-14% external. The reason KD is taking off in the UK is mainly one of money, at £55 a ton for hard cord to make 1.6 cube or so against a shade over £80 for a nice stacked crate of KD ready to sell and making 1.6 cube loose and no time and money spent processing it. Half my logs this time will be imported KD, I just cant make the maths stack to invest 30K in a bigger processor set up unless its going to be heavy grant aided. At present grant levels are likely to be 40% max next year. A A

Good quality 316 is fine for wood and smokeless coal and very occasional smokeless fuel use providing the stove is not closed down (slumbered) for long periods. Slumbering the stove, using over a boiler stove, burning smokeless fuel regularly then use 904. Cheap 316 as supplied on the web is built to a price, we now will not install any customer supplied liner, the quality is just to poor. A

Its an Aarrow Ecoburn, but an older model. I note installation date is 2015, that must have been on someones shelf for a long time as the current model Ecoburn Plus has been running for almost 2 years. Stove is multifuel, so can burn wood, smokeless coal and some types of smokeless fuel, there is a list of approved fuels in the owners manual below. Please do not burn ordinary bituminous house coal in it or petrolium based smokeless fuels. Both burn very hotly and will damage the stove, the damage is not covered under any manufacturers warranty and bituminous coal burns very dirtily so will clag up the glass and b, in some situations the firebox can explode when you open the door. PM me for more info if required. Stove user manual is here: http://www.aradastoves.com/pdf/manuals/bk530-rev11.pdf If you also want my stove owner tips for best operation manual for this stove again please pm me with an e mail address. I am an Arada Platinum dealer. A

Still got a pulse at least !!. Look forward to catching up. A

I have used Bag Supplies and have 5 or 6 year old bags with 10 trips on them and still going fine. I do though prefer the SG Baker bags, the eyes are bigger and the bags in a stripe weave are less likely to be damaged with fork tines when stacking the next pile. Be aware the the BS bags are 1100 x 900 and the baker ones 1m x 1m, if delivering on pallets the BS bags better suit a europallet. A

I think I recognise that install, is that you Ray?, if so we have spoken on other forums on a hobby we share. A

You have great skill, I am much in awe, thanks for sharing. A

Talk to Fuelwood, they are very helpfull. A

I have a Defender and have to have a tacho in it. A

316 is fine for wood and smokeless coal ( Anthracite), its man made smokeless fuels that create the problems. Building regs sign off do vary vastly in cost, you can of course also use an independent building inspector rather than council ones. A