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I've recently bought a wood-burning stove, and the place I found locally which supplies logs and kindling (went there today to stock up for the winter) Good grief! You'll be a bit parky during the winter months then Andy! We have a woodburning stove in the lounge and we have a delivery of logs every 5 weeks or so. We also burn logs and other bits of wood from the garden and we know a carpenter who give us all his offcuts to save going down the dump. This JUST keeps us ticking over though if it gets really cold we have to go and get some coal! :-) I actually just bought a couple of £2 bags - I'm having the stove installed the week after next, and need some just to fire it up to make sure it's working OK. I'm going to get a bunker out the back for the bulk deliveries! The stove I've bought is a Morso "Dove Cleanheat 1630", which I've just today discovered is oversized for my terraced cottage. The bloke who's installing it has suggested that I put an extra radiator in my loft to get rid of some of the heat! What I'll probably do is line the firebox with bricks to make it smaller. But hopefully I won't be cold this winter! Thanks for the concern, though! Take care, Andy http://greencottage.burysolarclub.net |
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In article , Andy Hunt
writes The stove I've bought is a Morso "Dove Cleanheat 1630", which I've just today discovered is oversized for my terraced cottage. The bloke who's installing it has suggested that I put an extra radiator in my loft to get rid of some of the heat! What I'll probably do is line the firebox with bricks to make it smaller. But hopefully I won't be cold this winter! Thanks for the concern, though! Take care, Andy http://greencottage.burysolarclub.net We've got a Hunter stove, it can take 15 inch lengths of timber and burn coal as well. Very dry wood, I.e... Carpenters offcuts makes us go from the sublime to the blinking hot and we have to open the patio doors to let the the out as it burns hot and very fast Use cola every now and then because coal burns hotter and gets rid of a lot of tar etc on the glass doors. I was told this by the chimney sweep. We have the chimney swept at least once a year as we don't let the fire out, (it ticks over overnight and we burn stuff which might not be absolutely pristine firewood. E.g. five bar gates and so on. Goodness only knows what the Barracloughs burn given their propensity for discovering stuff in skips ) Could never be without the stove, it's wonderful and soothes the fire bug in me as you can keep adjusting it or put rubbish on it. It's alive and a boring regular never changing gas or electric thing would never suffice! The dogs usually take most of the worst heat away if too hot as you have to climb over them sometimes to get to the doors Can make the rooms more dirty though, you find more dust on the top of picture rails and curtain tracks if you ever feel obliged to look . janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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We've got a Hunter stove, it can take 15 inch lengths of timber and burn coal as well. Very dry wood, I.e... Carpenters offcuts makes us go from the sublime to the blinking hot and we have to open the patio doors to let the the out as it burns hot and very fast I got the Hunter catalogue when I was looking at stoves - I really liked the design of them, but unfortunately I'm in a smokeless zone here, and Hunter don't make any 'clean burning' models for smokeless zones. The Dove is a nice looker, though - simple but good-looking. It has an image of a dove on a branch cast into each side of the stove (it's a nice solid cast iron - I think the Hunters are the same, aren't they). There's a place up the road from me selling these split logs at £2/bag, but I have a mate who's a builder, who quite often ends up with loads of spare wood at the end of a job. He says that from now on I'm welcome to take it, instead of his simply skipping it. Tomorrow I'm going down to one of his jobs where he's taken out a load of big old solid beams from a house - loads of them. I'll be taking my chain saw and making little oblong logs out of them. Getting a bunker made tomorrow too for my back garden/yard, so hopefully by the end of the day I'll end up with a bunker full of free firewood - a good start to the winter! Spent £60 on a chain saw though, but I won't need to spend that again, of course. Use cola every now and then because coal burns hotter and gets rid of a lot of tar etc on the glass doors. The Dove has quite a cunning design, in that the controllable air inlets for the fire are at the top of the front of the stove, so air is sucked in at the top and travels down the inside of the glass before feeding the fire from beneath. This means that there is a constant stream of air 'washing' the glass and keeping it clean. And all without electrical power! Could never be without the stove, it's wonderful and soothes the fire bug in me as you can keep adjusting it or put rubbish on it. It's alive and a boring regular never changing gas or electric thing would never suffice! I'm going to have the stove running my radiators and hot water cylinder, and a big reason for getting it is to do with my job - I work as an energy officer for my local council, and I'm currently promoting home renewable energy systems - which basically means 'biomass' heating (i.e. log stoves and boilers) for the winter, and rooftop solar thermal collectors to heat water in the summer - which remove the need to use any kind of boiler for half the year. But I must confess that I just really like the idea of having a real fire heating my home - there's nothing quite like it. And if all else fails, I could even cook on it too. Wood fuel - the original, and still the best . . . ! I was chatting to the marketing manager of Morso about doing a promotion, and it turned out he has the same stove as me. He assured me that I would soon 'develop a relationship' with my stove! I can certainly see it happening! Can make the rooms more dirty though, you find more dust on the top of picture rails and curtain tracks if you ever feel obliged to look . My house is still recovering from having a new fireplace built. Dust from that particular job still turns up in all sorts of unexpected places. I think that the extra few particles will be a small price to pay for a cheap, green, warm and homely heating system in my front room :-) Andy http://greencottage.burysolarclub.net |
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In article , Andy Hunt
writes Getting a bunker made tomorrow too for my back garden/yard, so hopefully by the end of the day I'll end up with a bunker full of free firewood - a good start to the winter! Spent £60 on a chain saw though, but I won't need to spend that again, of course. I would have thought that logs would take up a lot more room than coal, you'd have to have a pretty big bunker to keep sufficient wood to last you for a few weeks. Perhaps just a tarpaulin over the wood would be better? I'm going to have the stove running my radiators and hot water cylinder, That does take a lot of the heat away from the radiated amount into the room. I think that the extra few particles will be a small price to pay for a cheap, green, warm and homely heating system in my front room :-) Couldn't agree more! janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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I would have thought that logs would take up a lot more room than coal, you'd have to have a pretty big bunker to keep sufficient wood to last you for a few weeks. Perhaps just a tarpaulin over the wood would be better? I'm limited in the room I have to store logs, I'm only in an end-terrace here in Bury, Lancs. Most of my back garden is taken up with plants and furniture. I just had a spare space under my window, so I've filled it with a 4'x3'x2' bunker. The wood I cut yesterday (aching all over now! Chainsaw very good though) has just filled it nicely to the brim. I will have to see how long it lasts me, it may be that I can make it last a while heating my modest 2-up 2-down. It's the first time I've tried this, so this winter will be a learning curve! Next year I'm hoping to stock up the bunker during the summer, and season some logs from the council wood tip if I can. I know that coal is much more energy dense, but I'm trying to be 'green' and 'carbon neutral' to see how the practicalities turn out . . . besides, I think it's going to be fun scavenging for wood - it would be good to see if I can get free fuel to last me the winter. I've already been promised the spare wood from a second big building job in a few weeks. I'm going to have the stove running my radiators and hot water cylinder, That does take a lot of the heat away from the radiated amount into the room. With the size of the stove I've bought, I think that might be a good thing! I'm after a room heater, not a sauna! I will let you know how it turns out - having it installed next weekend. Could be an interesting experience! Andy |
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