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Agreed unless its a boiler stove with a big integral boiler running 24-7. Most of my stove customers with a 5kw stove burning most nights and at weekends use around 2 cube loose in an average winter. A

Normally fun fair people are as straight as a die, I used to deal with lots when suppling HGV parts, never found a bad one. A

Had not thought about that, fair comment. A

I don't like like chunky great logs that over 300mm diameter roundwood produces, so avoid processing over that. Customers with a 5kw stove by and large dont either. The Transaw has a nice splitter arrangement where by the splitter lifts giving 3 different split rates but that is a fair bit more costly than 360. I am of the opinion that the 12 way wedge from the Posch 3200 should be an option on 360, indeed it may be but I have not seen it shown as such. A

I co captain and am beat keeper on a driven pheasant shoot, rifles, photography and N gauge model railways but time and frankly energy these days severely limits most of these hence the railways came to the fore. A

If you want to get a reputation for supply of poor quality wet wood then go right ahead. You would be far better selling what you have and using the offered fresh felled for 16-17 winter. If you are pushed for stock you could always buy some crates of imported kiln dried. Several here including me import it. A

Look in any house magazine this time of year, most have at least a quarter page Clearview add, some more, who pays for that do you think, the end customer so what should be maybe an £800 quid stoves comes in at maybe £1100. Clearview are a decent stove yes but the new Morso's are better. At the end of the day it will all come down to what she likes the look of. You can talk about design, efficiency etc etc till the cows come home home but if she does not like it then it ends there. A

Might be wrong but this sounds like imported stacked crates. What exactly in broken firewoood, I assume its split, if so why call it broken unless that the term in the country of origin. There is a woodintown web site but it seems to be a Milan based woodturner so unlikley to be him. Might of course be barking up totally the wrong tree. A

Did that and got £70 back. A

Sent in a formal complaint, got about £70 back. A

i cut up over 50 tonnes of Horse the summer, good lot of burr in there but its all firewood now. A

Nick Channor is as far as I am aware no longer involved in the timber market. He does have an arb buisness and may be able to sell you some green ready processed cord. PM me for his number if required. A

I am in Northants NN6 post code and would take timber if you are in the area. A

CCJ is only one step, frequently a nearly bust person wont pay even then. Given fair time after the CCJ you can apply for an enforcement order, that is usually bailiffs going round and seizing stuff but they cannot seize the equipment used for his work. Another possible way forward if you know who owes him money is to serve the third party (his cutsomer) with a Garnishee order. This forces the customer to pay monies owed to the guy you have a CCJ on into the court instead of paying your debtor. My daughter has a CCJ against a former tenant who was also convicted of stealing money from her. He has no assets so no point in sending bailiffs in, he has paid around £30 in four years. So a CCJ is not the end of the matter, merely another step in a chain. A

Fire bricks and anything else in direct contact with the fire are not normally covered by any form of warranty, they are viewed as consumable items. A

The principal is the point, may well be a bit adrift figure wise but poking green timber into any sort of fire is inviting problems. A

Please dont burn green wood of any sort, you are inviting a chimney fire. Split it today and burn it next winter when it will generate 50% more heat than it will this winter as less energy is lost evaporating moisture off so more energy is converted onto heat. All woods will burn, Ash is probably the best all round wood but dont burn green. A

Should have found a Morso dealer, they are listed on the Morso UK web site, just put your post code or nearest town in and the nearest 6 dealers will come up. All should have Badger on display as its one of the top two sellers. Many of the online sellers are selling grey import badgers, these are rated at 6.5kw and legally require outside air ventilation. There is also no UK supported warranty. Buy one from your local dealer, its a UK spec model with the full Morso UK warranty back up and it carries a 5kw plate, it is exactly the same stove but now in most cases does not require outside air ventilation. A

1410 is mainly used on boats as the main source of heating, these tend to run 24/7 on solid fuel as wood wont hold in long enough over night. Solid fuel burns from the bottom up so the air coming through the bottom of the door vent needs to be below the level of the fire to make it perform. Ash should be removed daily, if you let it build up it wont do the grate any good. When the stove is burning wood the lower air supply should only be open on lighting, when the stove is alight it should be closed. I do find that if burning wood that is wetter than ideal or burning Oak then a bit of primary (lower control) air is beneficial. For normal wood below 16% MC then it should not be needed. When burning solid fuel then have both supplies fully open as these require more air than wood does. Burning solid fuel keep the grate clear of Ash ( riddle from time to time), burning wood let ash build up on the grate as it acts as a thermal layer protecting the grate. The center grate section sits roughly level with the top of the outer grate, cant ever recall seeing one where the center grate is above the surrounding outer grate. The center section does have some short male projections on it pointing upwards for effective riddling. If that is the case then maybe you have ash under the center section or maybe fire errosion on the outer grate. Morso do sell what they call a coal saver insert set to do what you want re the last bits of fuel. Even the new dedicated woodburning Morso's all have an ash pan and grate, people much prefer that way as they are easier to clean out. I suspect that when you say the stove does not burn when the primary air is closed that may you have a flue problem, ie lack of pull. The 1410 has two air supply wheels, so no way do they get blocked. This could be caused by a number of things. But again it might be wet wood. A

If you get your cord very cheap then fair enough, paying £55 a ton for it then its no more expensive to import ready kiln dried logs from the Baltic states. You need something to handle those filled bags, if on a farm this can usually be borrowed. gets to be hard work hand balling cord all day and she wont stand that for long I can assure you. Other than that a small processor would be good either road tow or tractor mounted if you can run to something like an old MF135. A

How do you get on with keeping the glass clean?, I have seen a couple working in a pub and the landlords said the glass was always grubby as the ones working in their bars were. A

Should be perfectly OK. A

Bricks are consumable items, usually 2 years and thats their lot especially if you a , spank the stove or b, are clumsy when reloading with logs.. Damage you have is very unlikely to be ash on top of the baffle plate. My lounge Morso Panther (8kw) only burns wodd except when very cold when I put a bit of anthracite in overnight. The top baffle plate is getting bent, when you think of the temp inside the stove its hardy surprising, been in about 4 years now and will probably do one more winter. I suspect you are burning very dry softwood and leaving the air vent in the lower part of the door open. This causes over firing and will create the sort of damage you have. Or you may have knackered door ropes, they last no more than 2 winters given average usage, these will then allow lots of uncontrolled air to enter the stove. Ref the proposed 8kw stove. Do the heat calc for the room, work out volume, divide by 12 , 14 or 16 for bad, average or good insulation. This output will give you a 21 deg C temp rise if its 1 deg C outside as the sole provider of heat in that room. Allow extra heat for large glass area and a up to 60% more if a conservatory is attached. Dont forget that a permanently open air vent will need to be installed at 5.1kw or more, this is a legal requirement. A

36 cubic meters of volume, good insulation, you will want 2.25 kw of heat for that room. Wood and multifuel stoves start at 3kw nominal, if you want a lower output you put less fuel into it, so one log at a time instead of 3 maybe. Assuming you are not in a smoke control area then look at: Insets; Morso S81 (4kw), Aarrow I400S ( 4.9kw), Esse 301, (4.5kw ish) Freestanding, Morso S11-42, Morso Squirrel 1416 and 1418, Morso Swift, Esse 500, Aarrow View 4 and Ecoburn 4, Villager Puffin and Heron. In a smoke control area then of the above, S81, Esse 301, Freestanding S11-41, 1416 + 1418, Esse 500SE, Aarrow Ecoburn 5 Defra. PM if you want any more info. A

Welcome to the forum. Value on such stuff is hard to define as it takes a lot longer to process than a 3m pole straight length of cord. I have offer a couple of guys £20 a processed cube for hard cord, but the cord is delivered in. That way we both know what the end volume is but while it was agreed on the phone zero timber have ever turned up. Not heartbroken as I dont really have the time to process good cord let alone arb waste. I find it very hard to move any soft irrespective of what it is so value to me is more or less zero as I have enough soft cord coming off the family farm. A