David West

On 21/02/2021 at 06:05, David Cropper said:

You're supposed to have the chimney swept every year, by a professional,  and have the bill to hand in case of this happening for the insurance. Also before you hand over the house, when it's sold,  the chimney should be cleaned. I was working there the 13th January and they were still lodging at the mother's house, so they couldn't have been in staying in their place above a few days before this. Very lucky to get out of that.

Was is his stove that caused the fire or was it the neighbours?

That’s a lucky escape by the looks of things.  Reading through the comments it seems the woodburner wasn’t fitted correctly which caused the debris inside the chimney to catch fire.  Looks like it caught fire again once the fire service had attended, unreal.  They can be thankful they managed to escape.  I was talking to me old word colleague, he was telling me he fitted a woodburning stove to his house, he just used the gas liner that was there.  Having burned it for about 3 years, it finally blew through the liner.  Lucky he noticed the draw was slowing to his fire and has now condemned it.  

2 hours ago, slim reaper said:

Your twinwall should protrude downward through the ceiling for a distance equivalent to 3 times the diameter of single wall flue it connects to. If you gain too much heat to the room by using a long single skin it can have a detrimental effect on flue draw, especially if its overall length is less than 4.5 m

 

My flue will be 4.5 from the top of the stove, the ceiling height in the room is 2.4, the stove height is about 530mm so I’ll have 1.9m or thereabouts inside, taking away the distance from combustibles going through the ceiling, leaves me with 1.5 ish inside.  Would you just run the twin wall all the way down? It’s no issue either way, what do you think?

I’m looking at twin wall flues just now, what do you think of the following, coming out the top of the stove with a single lined pipe, then before it goes through the ceiling, change to twin.  I’m thinking the benefit of the heat dispersing from the single pipe...

So doing some more research, I’ve seen folk saying they put a damper of the flue about 500mm from the stove.  Has anyone heard of this / done this?

16 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

When we first imported pellet stoves from america 20 years ago we brought in space heaters which we thought ideal for village halls, scout huts etc. large rooms that only needed heating in the early evenings. My boss installed 4 into The Hub, the loft space of a converted warehouse  which formed an arts project by Euston station and they worked well. They were nominally 3kW but flat out they moved a lot of hot air  with the circulation fan, this fan made them a bit noisy for domestic use. At the time we got pellets for £70/tonne but then the price rose sharply, I kept one in my house for demonstrations but it sits doing nothing in my shed now.

The heater I have is very small, like a 300 x 300mm floor fan, 3kw, I could prob get a standing radiator type and heat it quicker.  There’s just something good about knowing you can heat an area with wood, costs nothing, plus I’ve a perfect draft planned for down there, when I’m finished, it’s gonna be great.  

18 minutes ago, scbk said:

As someone who's used to drafty cottages and the like, I would've thought a small well insulated space like that would be very easy to heat?! Do you heat the main house with wood - do you already have a supply of logs & woodshed?

The issue is, when I use the heater, it takes hours, I understand the wood burner will take time too, but I just can’t get it out of my head the waste in energy, to heat it.  A wood burner has always been on my mind down there.  I have a large stock of wood drying in my back garden, must be about 2 years now, no stove in the main house yet, will see how this one goes.  Picked up a 12mm large glass hearth today, this installation begins!!!

That’s for the replies, I’ve pm’d you alicydon,  I’ve got my eye on a nice glass 12mm hearth. The ceilings are 2.4m high, would I need to watch this in terms of heat given off by a stove?

Hello everyone, I’ve read this forum for a while now and am looking for points / ideas / recommendations for a wood burner in my summer house ( I’m in Scotland).  My outdoor building is about 33 meters from the main house with its own electrical supply installed.  Thing is, it’s a bloody nightmare to heat! I currently have a 3kw electric convector heater running when I’m down, but it’s not doing the business and I’d always fancied a wood burning stove down there.  I built the house myself and will be doing the work myself.  The building itself is pretty well insulated with kingspan floor and ceiling, walls with rock wool.  The size is about 6m by 4m , finished inside with laminate flooring, gyproc walls and mdf skirting.  I have an area looked out and am currently putting together a list of what I’d need.  I realise I need the twin walled flue from the burner outside, but I’ve a few questions I’d like to put to you all.  Should i be looking for a rear or top entry stove? If I get both is one ‘better’ than the other? As it goes outside I’m thinking of a tee of sorts to allow inspection cleaning.  The roof is flat and I recon the flue will be about 3m or just under from the stove if I’m assuming a height of 500mm from inside.  I rather not go straight up as it’s a rubber epdm roof, does anyone have experience with this? Am I better to go straight up?  I spoke with a guy on the phone from a stove shop last week who recommended no bigger than 5kw.  I read that combustible materials should be no less than 3 times the diameter of the stove pipe, I have a tv on the wall which will be about 650mm from side of stove position, do any of you have items this close?  Sorry about the amount of questions but thought this would be a great place to start, the information given here from the wealth of knowledge is priceless imo.  I’ve uploaded a pic of where I’d like to install, sockets / lights can be moved to suit so that’s not a problem. 
 

David