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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

Which is why we should all try to buy nothing made in China, India is almost as bad. A

Very few double sided stoves can accept direct air, as long as there is a non closable vent in an external wall of the stove room then that is fine. A

In thst case there will also need to be an air supply laid into the stove room irrespective of the stove size.

Most of the traditional double sided stoves have been made obsolete as they dont comply with Ecodesign legislation that came into force on 1/1/22. I would usually use Hunter, not the best stoves in the world but not the worst. Those that make the best dont do double sided. Got a feeling that Eurostove have 2022 compliant double siders. A

Heta make superb stoves, they are in my opinion one of the top two or three stove manufactures out there at this time. Scan line 16 is not a current model so cant advise technically as I am a very new Heta dealer, looks around 7kw nominal so given average insulation values in the house/stove room then you will need a room with a volume of around 100 cu m to get the best from it. A

Sounds like you need a quailified sweep to come in, sweep the chimney and have a look. Movement of a few mm in a rear brick is not a problem as long as there is not a 2mm gap at the rear of the fire. I.e. any gap is at the side of the brick. A

Wrong, The steel will transfer the heat. A

Dissagree unless it's a very inefficient stove, big stove so 450mm flue pipe, likely to want 600mm above the stove, The lowest I am aware of 375mm. A

Minimum combustible clearances from the top of a stove have always been in the forefront for pro installers, along with the clearance from the exposed inside edge of a beam to a flue pipe, but over the last few years the clearance of the underside of a combustible beam from the flue pipe has come to the forefront following issues with beams catching fire. The sweep in condeming the install due to the beam is a trade proffesional giving a homowner best advise, preventing themsetting fire to the beam and maybe the house. I have seen Oak beams burnt pretty well through from the inside when externally they look ok. Please take on board what the sweep is saying, you loose your house to a chimney fire then if the evidence of a condemned installation comes to light during your jnsureres investigations then your policy may be invalidated. My best advise as a stove retailer is to get a reputable local installer in to look at the installation and if necessary cost up rectification works. A

I had an occasional blade wobble on my Japa 700, bearings on the drive shaft were shot. A

You can download Approved Document J from the govt website. Page 1 of Google is usually full of people trying to sell it to you , the site you want will probably be on page 2 where you can download it fir free. You want the 2014 version ideally but the older version will do as it covers this aspect. When I read your post I did not see anything about tar, but let's talk a bit about thst. Creosote occurs naturally within pretty well all woods. When loaded into a stove the creosote is given off in gas form and providing the temperature is hot enough to combust the gases. The problems come when A. wet wood is loaded, thus all the energy is used to evaporate the remaining water in the log and there is not enough energy left to get the temperature in the firebox above the combustion point of the creosote gases. And B when a stove is run closed down fir extended periods. If the temperature in the firebox drops below the combustion point of the creosote gases then instead of burning in the firebox they get up into the flue, condense in the flue, and line the sides of the flue with tar. So removing the cladding in the bedroom would not have an effect on the tars forming as thst occurs in the firebox, but in the event of a chimney fire caused by tar deposits things would get very dangerous pretty well immediately. A

Sorry for the late reply, simply swamped with demand for stoves and would at present. The installation of a stove is a notifiable event, this means your local building control office needs to be informed. It also needs to be installed as per the instructions in the front end of Approved Document J of the building regs. If its not signed off or not installed to the regs if you ever have a fire your insurers will invalidate your cover and not pay your claim. So let's look at whsts needed, single skin pipes and flexible flue liner can only be used inside a brick or masonry chimney. A flue system like yours is fully insulated, while you can use up to 1.5m of single skin off the top of the appliance everything above that has to be twin wall. This is legal requirement, bear in mind that the minimum combustible clearance on a single skin 150mm pipe is 450mm. Roof rafters, ceiling joints, plaster board on the ceiling are all highly combustible. In upstairs rooms and lofts the twin wall pipes are required to be boxed in, again safety measure to protect against fire. Yours is not boxed in and you are asking about removing the insulation material. This is as large a NO WAY as I can give you. The insulation is there to stop the pipe setting fire to your property and the outer skin of it are structural and likely to be holding up the pipes above it. One final issue, I have never seen a twin wall solid fuel flue that is anything other than stainless steel or zinc coated in construction. That yours has a plastic or similar cover suggests to me thst the flue you have is not a solid fuel one. My best advice to you is to get a professional independent installer in to check the install but if its as you say it will be condemned as unsafe. That Hetas were not prepared to comment does not surprise me, your description raises huge red flags and you should have at least been told to get a registered installer in to check things out, that's why I resigned some years ago and joined the SIA. Please do not cut thst insulation material away. A

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Never ever burn anything that is creosoted, when you cut the rails do they smell of creosote?, dont look like they are so treated thus should be Ok to burn once dry. A

Welcome to the site by the way, there are some good people here. Sorry to sound negative but the safety of you and your family must come first. A