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Just finished a Stovax install this week. Small dog gives thumbs up 😆
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Bugger can't find where I have my photo.
Nice by the way and great to see a Border loving it too, ours plonk himself right in front.
I took a video of mine to show a customer how much nicer the flame effect in a stove can be compared to an open fire. Ironically it was to put him off fitting a stove like that one^ 🙂
"I can has heat too" sez heat cat...
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ps - yes I know the fireplace is a mess, but the burner is nice and warm!
Before I fitted a false cedar mantle on the front:
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Daisy_Duke wins with that huge fireplace ... you can spit roast a pig in there. 😀 I like!
Fantastic selection. Nothing beats cold nights infront of a burning stove. The smell, ambient noise and mesmerising flames.
Wish I could fit one in my house.
Apart from munkster ^^ everybody has really neat, tidy and clean fireplaces. Ours looks a real mess.
Wow, now they are proper fireplaces.
Ours replaced a 70s backboiler earlier this year:
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The cats seem to like it!
They all look very nice!
Got one in the play room too that we can't light... for the next few years.
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Apart from munkster ^^ everybody has really neat, tidy and clean fireplaces.
😳 Ours is on every night at this time of year and just don't get round to clearing it all up every day - took that photo just before I posted it so unstaged... I guess I could've tidied up a bit but didn't want to disturb the heat-seeking moggy 😉
Keep them coming guys as we are having one installed in the New Year going for a modern burner though , Does £1150 sound reasonable to take out a back boiler and install new burner?
Keep them coming guys as we are having one installed in the New Year going for a modern burner though , Does £1150 sound reasonable to take out a back boiler and install new burner?
hard to say. does that include price of burner, liner etc ?
That sounds a good deal. It cost us that to have a hearth fitted, flue liner and wood burner installed and a chimney pot with bird cap. We'd already removed the back boiler, opened up the fireplace, and made good where the gas pipes used to run. You won't look back, it's primal!
Edit: 1100 quid to supply and fit hearth, liner, register plate, pot etc and install and sign off the burner. We bought the burner ourselves as we got a deal the fitter couldn't better and happily recommended we went with it.
Not sure if this will work...
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Sorry - p!sspoor photo...
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Thing behind wife's bike
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Come back nearer the end of January 🙁
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This is an install i did a few weeks ago. Not quite a 'wood' burner as such but a pellet boiler.
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I would love to put in a fire, how much would it cost? (currently have no fire place but when we bought the house there was a back boiler and a gas fire)
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No picture of it, but one of our firewood customers has a stove that'll take logs upto 3' and either side of it you can stack a half cubic metre of wood in the fireplace. Huge fireplace. It covers half the breast end of the pub.
Rochey - Member
I would love to put in a fire, how much would it cost?
Depends. I spent about £2,000 including the cost of the stove. We reused the stone from the previous fireplace which saved a bit. If you need the chimney lining then costs could be higher.
In order to open up the fireplace that had been closed in around the back boiler/ gas fire combo, and make good of the concrete base for the hearth , move the lintel up two brick courses (aesthetics really) and make good the plaster work around it probably cost us 400 quid including materials. The charnwood 4 cost us about 500, and the rest as above cost us 1100 quid, so pretty much 2k. We shopped around quite a bit, and we were getting lots of quotes where the fitters insisted on scaffolding (extra 400 quid) to sort the chimney pot and flue liner. But the guy we used did it all off ladders, but had cherry picker option if access was an issue. A few companies wouldn't even come out and quote without a deposit....obviously they didn't get the job. We had ours done in June, and as they were quieter we could haggle a deal with most of them.
Very happy with the woodburner and the installer/ follow up advice/ service. If anyone in Surrey wants details, let me know.
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I'm not sure this will work.
Ours cost around £2,000. Included taking out the back boiler, lining, multifuel stove and fitting.
Edit: Arrrgghh - can somebody post my picture up please.
Whoops double post.
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Bunnyhop's boiler (so to speak) 😉
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Anyone got one that's a more, er, modern design?
We're going to put one into our (1960s) house next year - want to keep it suitable (post)modern looking.
Shmikuk, yes please for those details. Am hopefully moving into our new place near Hindhead on Monday and one of the jobs at the top of the list is to get a woodburner installed.
5th Elefant, is that a stuffed dog?
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I think mine (pictured above) is quite modern-looking (although the surround isn't).
It is a Morsø
Some stills:
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@stoner - did you buy or make the fan?
Wouldn't mind one myself 😀
A question for all too .....
Do you need "special" stove kettles or will any metal kettle be okay? Also do they sit directly on the stove top or do you add in a metal spacer?
Need to use ours better!
Taken just for this thread - just lit:
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And dogs enjoying the warmth 8)
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made the fan myself using a 1.5v DC motor, some model blades, 2x CPU heatsinks, some arctic paste and a peltier device from ebay.
Was fun, and it still works, just not very well. Next time Im bored I will buy a build at home stirling engine instead.
Ground bottom kettle - like one for an aga or rayburn. When not on the boiler it sits on a metal rack on the top of the stove that keeps it 10mm clear.
I also use a stove top aluminium coffe pot as well if Ive lit the fire in the morning.
Mastiles - I like yours, but still too traditional for something that will be so prominent in the living room.
I think the clearview stoves look good, i have a pioneer 400, something like this would look OK in a newer house i should think:
http://www.clearviewstoves.com/solution500.htm
Go on then:
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Hee hee. Thanks for putting the picture up Tom.Bunnyhop's boiler (so to speak)
If you visit some show rooms, they usually have at least one modern type on view. Ours was from 'The George Street Loft in Glossop'.
They haven't just jumped on the bandwagon, but have been fitting/installing stoves from many years.
69er - I like your mantlepiece - I want something like that over our fire but Mrs Mastiles isn't so keen.
Where did you get it from?
Modern fire in an 80s house...
Stove is a Firebelly - we got a bit carried away and ordered the 6Kw version, which on reflection is a bit big for our lounge/dining area. I've partially solved the problem by opening up the door to the hallway, so that the heat dissipates through the house. I noticed the other week that Firebelly stoves have become eye-wateringly expensive since we bought ours - looks like they've nearly tripled in price!
The fitting was a bit disappointing - had to get them back the first time as the flue was considerably off plumb. Still not totally satisfied, but I think the only way it's going to get done properly is if I take it to bits and do it myself! Guess you can't expect a heating engineer to be familiar with a spirit level.
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Found my image a bit blurred though
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ditch_jockey - that's rather more like it..!
What's it standing on? Like you, we have no fireplace, so will need a hearth to go in.
Is there any disadvantage to fitting into the corner of a room?
Aha Drac - same stove as ours 🙂
My new one, a Fireline FX5 5kw, fitted last week!
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Still got to sort out a floating mantlepiece and wall colour but all the dusty work has been done.
Now looking at making a diy fan 😉
What's it standing on?
A slate plinth which is resting on the chipboard floor. One of the showrooms we looked in did black glass, which was rather nice, and you could also get clear glass, which might look good if you had a tiled or wooden floor.
Ours is a fairly regular 3 bed house in terms of the lounge size, and you could definitely get away with the smaller Firebelly stove to heat our living area if you wanted something fairly unobtrusive. In terms of fitting it to a corner, it's not a problem as such - the installers would need to leave the appropriate gaps between the sides/back of the stove and the walls.
If you don't have a fireplace, the plasterboard at the back of the fire needs to come out and be replaced with 'fireboard' covered with a cement screed. somewhere I have the picture of ours when the work was done, but I hadn't redecorated, and the rebuilt area is quite impressive. We got some good advice about how to prepare the new screed from the plasterer who did the work, and the end result is that the new section of wall really isn't distinguishable, even close up.
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Stovax (Huntington, I think)
I have a Nestor Martin Stanford 13 which I can't recommend highly enough. Very efficient, extremely well build, no issues since fitting a two or three years ago (it's like new) and you can even fit a remote control if you must.
It's set in a fireplace with oak beam and slate hearth with a fair bit of space to either side which helps for stacking and giving the logs a final dry before burning.
My advice is don't go too big. It's better to have a smaller stove burning properly than a bigger one on low as far as I can tell plus the big ones don't half go through some wood.
Some nice setups here.
Simwit, ygm!
Ours is a Fireline FX5 too. All in inc. stove cost me £675 max...£525 of that was stove and stovepipe. Fitted all myself-stripping wall back, digging old bricks out, cleaning fire place and re-pointing. Old bricks and cement for hearth covered in B&Q floor tiles. Will get round to getting it HETAS certified after Xmas. Did make sure chimney was swept and inspected before use though.
Dining room, just installed (late '09):
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First lighting 😀 :
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Molly's favourite place (RIP Molly 😥 ):
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Living room (installed early '11):
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Oscar's favourite spot (RIP Oscar 😥 that's both my dogs this year!! 😥 😥 😥 ):
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Now Mabel's favourite place 😀 :
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Lardy, as a springer lover who's lost springers I feel it, but Mabel looks a sweetie.
and the fires have gone in well too.
@ditch_jockey - cheers. Really useful.
The wall(s) it'll go against are regular plaster and block (outside walls). It's part of a wider piece of work we're doing, so any additional requirements can be factored in.
This was just after it was put in last year. Those are two of my kids hogging the heat.
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just got one of these for the kitchen/diner. Had hoped to have it runnung for crimbo but it's looking doubtful... Should be rather nice though. Very clean and modern looking.
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Getting it lit pronto this morning. I'm sure I see ice on my walls.
Bedmaker - that's a really nice looking fire. Does it vent straight back out through the wall?
Loving the hearth, WEJ. Personally would've been inclined to hide that massive pile of bongo, though...
My wee Stovax Stockton 5
Before / half way through knocking crap out of the bricked up opening for the gas fire to make way for the wood burner
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Jobs a good'un
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Old photos but shows our very efficient central stove with central chimmney going up through the mezzanine. The stove is not the prettiest thing, 3 sides are glass and the boxed in chimney immediately above the stove have vents to set up some really efficient convection currents.
Warms the house up a treat, esp upstairs which becomes sauna like.
That's a neat setup Tomaso
Noticed a few here are storing wood near or on their burner, is that safe to do?
Not a good idea to stack your logs on or around the burner as they can
reach temperatures up to 600f. This could easly start a fire.
Apologies for the crappy phone picture
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Took out the old back boiler & hacked fireplace back to brick myself. Got someone in to line it with fireboard & skim it and put in a new cement hearth. A friend supplied & installed the slate hearth, then a chap from the stove place supplied & installed the flue, liner, plate & chimney cowl. All that was £1100 & then £700 for the stove. And it's the best £1800 we've spent on the house.
ski - Member
That's a neat setup TomasoNoticed a few here are storing wood near or on their burner, is that safe to do?
kmax - Member
Not a good idea to stack your logs on or around the burner as they can
reach temperatures up to 600f. This could easly start a fire.
Yep, if you do that be very careful. I do stack wood next to the stove, but I'm very careful to leave a gap. In the ealry days of uso having the fire I put a piece on top, like tomaso, and it took us some time to realise that the smell of woodsmoke wasn't the fire itself, it was the piece of wood on top that was on the verge of flaming.
D-j yes it vents out the back. I'll put a hole in the wall and I've got one of those grill thingys from an oil boiler to let the smoke out.
Storing wood on top of the stove is fine but don't go to bed or out of the house with it there.
ski - Member
That's a neat setup Tomaso
Noticed a few here are storing wood near or on their burner, is that safe to do?kmax - Member
Not a good idea to stack your logs on or around the burner as they can
reach temperatures up to 600f. This could easly start a fire.
Yep, if you do that be very careful. I do stack wood next to the stove, but I'm very careful to leave a gap. In the ealry days of uso having the fire I put a piece on top, like tomaso, and it took us some time to realise that the smell of woodsmoke wasn't the fire itself, it was the piece of wood on top that was on the verge of flaming.
It was early days and the wood was not well seasoned. And yes it does start to smell of woodsmoke. And yes it is a fire hazard.
The skinny slates in my fire are off cuts trimmed down to a standard size and are quite cheap 
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