RBZ5416

Thanks again guys, baffle is correctly installed. Some food for thought there ahead of the next try.

Stove was cleaned out by the sweep & has been the same from new. Operating the ariwash backwards is worth a try thanks. As far as I know. As above, it's been like it from new so I would hope that the installer would have got that right! Not much I can do in that regard because the firebox is so small. So two logs of decent size would be a squeeze & small enough logs would need almost constant refuelling. I'll have a rummage through the logs & select a bunch for a session to try though.

No sadly, that was added to later models.

I have a Stovax Stockton 4 that is around 10 years old. It's been largely unused in that time because I just can't seen to get it run "properly". It has two controls, a primary air inlet at the bottom & an "air wash" at the top. Manual states to get a good burn going & close the primary, so far so good. The problem is then adjusting the air wash. This has a total travel from open to closed of little more than an inch, which seems to result in only two possible states. With the control fully open, logs burn hard & fast. Nudging the control closed fractions at a time does very little to the burn, until it suddenly reduces significantly. This all looks good with a gentle burn but will be followed by the flame dying completely a few minutes later. A nudge back in the other direction does nothing & so the control has to be fully opened to reignite. Rinse & repeat. The consumption with the control open is too high & no flame is equally of no use. I have a thermostat on the stove pipe & am getting up around the 150 degree C before attempting a controlled burn. Being a small stove it can only take 200mm logs & don't know if this is part of the problem? Flue has been swept & logs are very well seasoned & dry. With the current low temps I had another go this week, probably the first time in at least three+ years. Actually long enough to have forgotten about this issue but it soon raised it's head again. Any suggestions of why I'm struggling so much with this would be greatly appreciated before I give up for good.