loskie

Theres a Clearview Vision 500 on Gumtree recently at Kilmarnock. £700 LOG BURNER STOVE! in East Ayrshire | Other Dining & Living Room Furniture for Sale | Gumtree.com Please note I have no connection to this ad. Only know what you will from viewing the ad. What I do know is that this price (if in good order) is probably less than an ebay auction would fetch.

Are you on the scrounge for free firewood?

yes if the property is tenanted there may be regs to have it signed off by a HETAS bloke or Building Control. Also likely to require carbon monoxide and a smoke detector. Remember if output is MORE than 5kw you will need an external airbrick.

Like the one of the dog. Here's mine (and the hungover missus). Stove is a Town and Country Little Thurlow. 5kw and 6 yrs old. I have also a Stovax Stockton 7 Multifuel. Bought at 6m old looks like new from Gumtree from a local stove dealer cost £425 delivered. This is still awaiting fitting into a yet to be built extension. I think the realistic new price is around £800. The story starts with me buying (from a post card ad in the local shop) a Dowling 8 Hybrid Stove for £250 spent £60 getting it shot blasted and re sprayed then. Rear flue did not suit for my plans so sold it for £450. Maybe good luck rather than skill. So what I am getting at is yes look for used stoves, but be choosy and it may be better than buying a cheaper new one. And potentially profitable. And satisfying. Enjoy. Pics of dowling before and after.

I am realistic in my expectations just thought it a shame to scrap it. It is in good nick and works well although I am not sure about the boiler since it was disconnected shortly before we bought the house when gas central heating was fitted. Theres only a very slight nick in the door where the oil feed goes in. I cannot imagine that the boiler was filled with sand as it should have been so may be easily re connected. Annoyingly the oil ran out last night and I am loathed to fill the tank cos I don't want to be left with too much oil when we remove it. Min order is 500l. I will also have a 1200l Plastic Balmoral Oil Tank surplus to requirements. Not that old. She's not at all happy the Mrs Many thanks all for your comments keep em coming. cheers Loskie

As requested: we are about to embark on a renovation of part of our cottage. With this we will be removing a Rayburn no2 Oil Fired Stove. This would have started life as a solid fuel model and has since been converted to oil. An old farmer I visited has one the same and told me he fitted his new in 1952. We have been in this house 6 years and as the Rayburn no longer heats water or radiators (village is now on mains gas and combi boiler fitted) it just heats our kitchen and is used for cooking. We only have it on from Nov to April Makes great roast tatties. Has a backboiler which is disconnected but I guess could be reinstated. Could be re converted back to solid fuel. I am going to be cooking on gas and fitting a used Stockton 7 multifuel stove to the new kitchen living area in its place as a heat source. Would this Rayburn be likely to be able to be sold and if so what kind of price could one reasonably expect? Works fine and looks ok for 60 odd yr old. and located in SW Scotland(not remote). thanks for looking at my first post although I have used this forum a while being an avid firewood vulture as a mate recently called me.(we already have another woodburner in the rest of our cottage) Polite and constructive advice welcome!! cheers Loskie

Thanks for the welcome although it does seem I may have got off on the wrong footing. I always thought threads were "organic" in that they generated conversations that often branched out. Anyway "my bad" I shall re post. Cheers Loskie

we are about to embark on a renovation of part of our cottage. With this we will be removing a Rayburn no2 Oil Fired Stove. This would have started life as a solid fuel model and has since been converted to oil. An old farmer I visited has one the same and told me he fitted his new in 1952. We have been in this house 6 years and as the Rayburn no longer heats water or radiators (village is now on mains gas and combi boiler fitted) it just heats our kitchen and is used for cooking. We only have it on from Nov to April Makes great roast tatties. Has a backboiler which is disconnected but I guess could be reinstated. Could be re converted back to solid fuel. I am going to be cooking on gas and fitting a used Stockton 7 multifuel stove to the new kitchen living area in its place as a heat source. Would this Rayburn be likely to be able to be sold and if so what kind of price could one reasonably expect? Works fine and looks ok for 60 odd yr old. and located in SW Scotland(not remote). thanks for looking at my first post although I have used this forum a while being an avid firewood vulture as a mate recently called me.(we already have another woodburner in the rest of our cottage)