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Fuelwood do a one week hire of a Kindlet, this was one of the first kindling making machines, good tool. Minimum hire is 7 days, that would turn out several years worth I would think. You will need an ample supply of suitable cord to put through it, either rings cut to length or I know some people using joinery waste. Kindlet Kindling Machine | Try b4u Buy WWW.FUELWOOD.CO.UK The Kindlet kindling machine converts timber off-cuts and round logs into kindling. Hire equipment to try before you buy. Read full terms here. No idea on bricketts, I have too say that people were very reluctant when we tried to sell them but if the material is costing nothing then its worth looking at but also consider how you would pack them for retail sale. A

Pellets are the thick end of £300 a ton now, when I put a pellet boiler in at home they were £120. A

Parts back up when needed may be iffy as they are not a common brand in the UK, several companies have tried to sell them and failed. A

Send the picture to ARADA stoves, that is the current brand name for aarrow and stratford stoves with a list of parts you need, send for the attention of Mike. I think its an old Aarrow its defo from the old Arada stable. Mike will sell you any parts needed direct if they are still available. You will be charged carriage. A

Its an ideal package solution, state of the art Charnwood wood burner in it, so high quality and long life. A

Work out the volume of the room in cubic meters, roughly. say 5m x 4m x 2.5m = 50 cubic meters, Then divide by 12 for poor insulation ( so 4kw), 14 for average insulation ( so 3.5kw) or 16 for good insulation ( so 3kw), that is the amount of heat you would need in total to get the temp in the room to 22 Deg C if its 1 deg c outside. If the window of glass area is larger than average then add in extra heat as heat loss through glass is a lot worse than through a solid wall. The rated output of a stove is what is known as a nominal output, the actual output will depend on the fuel you load and what volume of fuel you load. A 5kw nominal wood burner has a typical output rage varying from about 2kw up to 7kw. For optimum performance choose a smaller stove that is working flat out all the while, it burns cleaner, keeps the glass clear and gives you a nice flame picture. Glass hearth needs to be large enough to conform to the regs, in a corner then a tear shape would usually work but talk to your installer about what sie you will need, this will depend on the size of the stove you select and what is happening about the side walls of the cabin re fire proofing. (Are you siting the stove outside the Min Comb clearance of the stove or are you making the walls fire resistant perhaps with fireboard ( Not the pink backed stuff). Here are the links. Stove Pod - Charnwood Stoves WWW.CHARNWOOD.COM Morsø S11-42 MORSOE.COM The elegant, simple design of our S11-42 multi-fuel stove really shines. A

Hi, I own two retail stove showrooms and have been advising people about stoves for about 12 years. I can though only comment on the regs as they stand in England, approved Doc J 2014, the front part only as openspaceman has advised. Summer houses, sheds, log cabins etc do not come under building regulation above with regards to the install of a stove. None the less it needs doing properly and above all safely. Thus I would recommend you abide by the building regs. The major issue you have is a wooden floor and probably plasterboard walls and ceiling. These are all viewed as combustible. So let's deal with the easy bits first. Where you want to put the stove is fine given that its either far enough away from the combustible walls or steps are taken to fire rate the walls in the area of the stove. Stove manufacturers will usually advise their minimum required clearance to combustibles in the technical notes on their web sites. You will need a non combustible hearth to stand the stove on, the thickness of this hearth on most good quality modern design stoves is a minimum of 12mm. Anything that is non combustible can be used, looking at your floor then a glass hearth would work well. Most stoves work through a process of radiation, the flames heat the metal of the stove body, this then radiates that heat into the room. However the sides get very hot, thus needing quite a large minimum clearance to combustibles. You could use a convector stove, this radiates heat to the front and top but the sides and sometimes the rear have air gaps between the side of the firebox and the side of the stove itself. Cool air from the room is drawn in the base of the convection chambers under the stove, rises up via convection and emerges from slots on the top of the stove as heated convected heat. Two benefits, a. Slightly better efficiency and b, reduced minimum side clearance to combustibles. My first choice stove for this type of application is the morso S11 series, morso also do a fully insulated flue system for use in cabins etc but it's only approved for use with their stoves. The flue route with the morso system would be straight up through the roof. Charnwood have recently released their stove pod system for use in conjunction with their Aire3 stove, only 50mm clearance to combustibles from the outside of the pod, the base of the pod is also a legal hearth. A very neat installation specifically designed for this type of install . PM me your e mail address and I can send you links if you wish. Hope that helps. A

Good idea, if I can buy it at the right price. Its not viable to pay £80 a ton plus VAT for cord to make 2 x cube, cut it up, season it, deliver it , pay for vented bags, and then charge a price that competes with the web. I have seen seasoned at £60 a cube for hard wood, might all be pop agreed. I can make money selling imported crates and I can get £600 worth onto my trailer, for loose seasoned wood a load is worth £250 as it takes far more space. I do sell seasoned yes, mainly fallen timber from my brothers farm but the market is changing towards kiln dried rapidly, dont really know why but it is. A

I only bring in couple of containers a year, but cant get any new supplies until late Feb at best so will just sell seasoned for the rest of the winter, thus my next container will arrive in June by which time the dust should have settled. Containerships who handle the shipping have brokers so will use them certainly to start with to handle the import declarations, cant see that there will much if any cost. You will also have seen the UK requirement from Jan1 that all packing crates must be marked as heat treated, one company I use were heat treating but not marking but they are now changing that. A

200mm should fit just about everything. 250mm would fit a Squirrell but new smaller stoves such as Charnwoods Aire 3 for small highly insulated places need shorter logs. The ARADA Puffin needs 200mm from memory, I am not aware of any stove that needs shorter than 200mm. A

Magnets on the prop shaft. A

Auto every time, my last 2 Discos have been auto diesels, plonk it in drive and off you go. I pull trailers loaded to about 2.7 tonnes 3 or 4 days a week, no downsides at all. But its a one way street, its a pain having to go back to a manual. A

Most manufacturers today build the majority of their stoves with a one piece steel body and a cast iron door. Less joints for air to get in than a cast stove and far lower production costs as the body can be folded from sheet steel by robots. Cast will hold the heat somewhat longer than steel but you would be hard pressed to see a difference. Clearview were good stoves in their day, but technology moves on and efficiency levels increase, Clearview have stayed rooted in the past. In 2014 the minimum efficiency levels changed from 55% to 65%, in 2022 its going to 75% and 2025 to 80%. You will note that the Clearview web site does not show many efficiency levels, yet all other manufactures do, it is I believe a legal requirement to advise prospective buyers of energy and efficiency levels. Stoves from Chanwood, Arada and Esse are all made from scratch in the UK, Morso in Denmark. Not assembled in the UK from Chinese or eastern European parts, these are allowed to be called 'Made in the UK' . If you want a traditional cast iron stove then look at the Charnwood Skye and the Morso Badger 3116, highly efficient, minimal emissions, 2025 compliant, made in the UK or Denmark for the Morso. Costly yes but heirloom quality products. A

You should be Ok, just dont go pileing lots of logs in at a time, one or two is fine as long as they are not to big.. A

Cant speak for Stovax, fortunately I am not a dealer. But Arada, Charnwood, Morso and Esse who I do act for generally have a price increase of about £20 a stove a year, however this year their price rises were due in May, due to lockdown etc they all held off until November ( Morso 1 Jan). So yes there are rises but not to the 30% level. A

This is typical of many modern stoves, air now tends to enter the stove from the base at the rear so that by the time it gets to enter the firebox along the top line of the glass its superheated. The other issue is many stoves are fitted with an upper and lower baffle plate arrangement, this holds the heat in the stove for longer and helps efficiency but can create issues with draw. If necessary remove the upper baffle and try the stove without it in place. I have known a few Morso's have this issue. Modern stoves really need a minimum draw up the flue of 12PA, a 10 year old design would work perfectly well on 8PA. Ultra efficient, ultra clean stoves require a better performing flue. Pull can be boosted either with a wind driven rotary cowl or an electric draft booster cowl. A

Modern stoves should be airtight, older ones less so. It is highly likely the Olymberel which is a budget stove is leaking air into the firebox from all sorts of places hence its free burning. The Stockton 7 is nominally rated at 7kw, as such it does legally require an outside air vent being installed unless the installer considers that the house has adequate natural ventilation. This would usually be things like gaps under the doors and around the windows, pretty unlikely I would have said in these days of double glased everything. So air supply could be a problem. How is it installed ?, ideally it should be on a 150mm diameter flex flue liner. No liner and your pull can be radically reduced depending on the house chimney diameter. Think you said the house was old so likely to have a very large chimney and have lime based mortar between the bricks or stone. This really does need to be lined. How high is the flue, the higher the better. Fuel size, for optimum performance load 2 or 3 logs at a time, loading one big one and you wont get the turbulence required in the firebox. I am taking for granted that the fuel is dry, ie 16% or below. Air controls, refer to your Stovax user manual, usually the primary air going in under the fire is for lighting only on wood or for use with solid fuels. Once the stove is going close the bottom ( primary) air supply and manage the fire purely on the secondary air supply coming in above the fire. Finally are there any trees or buildings taller that the top of your chimney, if so winds could be blowing down onto your roof and flue preventing the smoke getting out and severely reducing pull. A

Morso Squirrel doors fits a 8mm SOFT rope, even then to much glue will lead to problems you have experienced. The 5mm rope Morso do is to seal the flue pipe joint. Under the glass is a flat 2mm thick self adhesive rope. As a Morso dealer I usually have the kits in stock. A

Friend of mine has a Woodmizer near Kettering, think he is an occasional visitor here. PM for details if needed. A

IFW now offer 3mm solid chequerplate side extensions, 750 + vat a set or thereabouts. A

Best thing is a 5kw stove with a clip in boiler, the heat to water is then usually about 2.5kw leaving the other 2.5kw to the room. 2.5kw to water would be enough for Dom Hot water or a single 1m x 600mm rad. The boiler replaces one of the firebricks. But most of the boiler stoves that are still around ( and most will go as at present the dont comply with the 2022 emissions regs) are speced burning solid fuel, this will generate about 30% more heat than if you are burning wood. Dont worry to much about 2022 as there will be no requirement to change stoves, just that older less efficient designs are phased out for newer cleaner more efficient models. Look at the ARADA range, they are currently one of the leaders on boiler stove technology. There older Ecoburn Generation 2 range had clip in boiler options, the current Generation 3 which was launched this summer I believe does not. The generation 2 is no longer on the ARADA web site, I still have a few in stock I think. Another thought would be the Charnwood flue pipe boiler, this will only fit some Charnwood stoves only and no others as they use the flue flange fixing points. One of those fitted to the new Aire 3 ( not sure off hand if Aire 3 would be compatible though) would generate around 3kw to the room and 2.7kw to the water, Charnwood Flue Boiler - Charnwood Stoves WWW.CHARNWOOD.COM The Charnwood ash-carrier is a simple yet invaluable addition to your Charnwood stove. It offers a clean, safe and effective means of ash disposal. PM me if necessary. A

Never needs tyres, always needs brakes !!. I reline brakes every 12- 18 months, tyres punctures excepted last 10 years. A

I see see a Nugent general purpose trailer that drove past me over the weekend, new, looked smart but no opportunity for a close up look. A

I have been looking to buy a new tipper recently, either TT3017 IFW or the Brian James equiv. I have asked both about thickness of the solid sides, IFW dealer says 3mm on the optional solid extension sheets, Brian James says 2 mm on the lower part of the sides and only 1mm on the optional upper parts. While 1mm might be OK for chip there is no way that it would remain looking decent if we are loading rings into it either with a loader or holding the trunk over the trailer and sawing them through. Brain James says they are more concearned about weight saving and the ease of getting them on and off. My local IFW dealer is quoting March 21 and wont give me a price as there is an imminent IFW price rise and all trailers leaving the works are charged at the current price that day. My next nearest in giving me mid Jan. The Jan guy says his trailers are ordered with the HD tyre option, 185/70R13. I would have thought the HD version would be the 195/60R12, 20mm lower body and wider tyre. Anyone any thoughts on this. T I A A

Good spot, but plus 17% auctioneer fee + 20% VAT on the hammer price and no warranty. A