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  1. I’ve got three stoves and only one (steel stove) of them produces a dust smell if it’s not been used in while. I spent a lot of time researching the issue and through a process of elimination, I know this is the cause. Not saying that this is the OP’s issue but it could be. People can be more sensitive to smells like burning dust than others. At the end of the day, it’s a lump of metal with a fire inside, can’t be too many things causing the smell. The stove should be inspected by a qualified person to eliminate everything else.
  2. The dust will burn off really quickly but the smell can linger for a lot longer. I’ve had a few times that I’ve had to open a window because it smells like burning plastic but normally I can put up with the smell until it goes. If you’re not getting the smell when burning every night, then it’s a good chance that it is dust.
  3. The smell could be dust (it has a chemical kind of smell when burning off). I have the problem with one of my burners. I get the smell from the first burn of the season (as expected) and once it’s being used everyday, there’s no smell. But if it’s not been lit for 3 or 4 days, it gives off a chemical smell until the dust has burned off and then it’s fine again.
  4. I painted two of my fire places with white emulsion, it’s been over seven years and I’ve had no issues or discolouring. My bricks also looked likes yours, a couple of good scrubs with washing up liquid should sort them out ready for painting. Think it did take about four coats to get a good finish and the first coat was watered down to act as a primer.
  5. Shhh.... Don’t tell everybody how good softwood is, they’ll all want to start burning it! It’s mostly all I burn now and I prefer it to hardwood. Yes it does burn quicker and produces zero coals so you have to time the reloads but it’s easier to process, dries quicker and still kicks out a tremendous amount of heat.
  6. Underfloor heating in the garage, wish I had that in mine!
  7. If you’re not going to burn smokeless coal then I’d convert it to wood only. I’ve got to multi-fuels (that can’t be converted) and a wood burner. Knowing what I know now and how I use them, I should have got all wood burners!
  8. Try starting your fire top down, kindling on top, smaller logs at the bottom. I’m burning a lot of softwood at the moment and they produce zero coals, it’s all about timing and reloading the fire before they evaporate.
  9. I like to run my stoves hot and fast and control the heat by the amount of wood being burned. Once up to temp, I close down the primary air and rarely close the secondary/airwash.
  10. It’s normally the wife that tells me when she’s cold!
  11. I run three stoves as my main source of heating. I do have c/h but my system is rubbish and only heats the kids rooms which works well as the stoves heat the rest of the house. Week days, I normally light them in the afternoon, weekends, light them when we’re cold.
  12. And that’s a good point. When I had my first multi fuel stove fitted and didn’t really know a lot about them, I was never asked/advised about what grade flue I should have. If It had been discussed with me then I would have definitely chosen 904 to future proof it and give me the option of burning smokeless in the future considering it is a multi fuel stove.
  13. I’ve managed to find one article about the ban written by somebody with some knowledge on the subject. Why the war on wood burners? WWW.SPIKED-ONLINE.COM The government seems to be banning things first and working out the justifications later.
  14. It’s only making the news because it’s winter, come spring when most people stop burning everyone will forget about firewood, coal etc.. until next winter.
  15. My third stove finished an hour ago, really pleased with it and cannot wait to light it.

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