[Closed] Cold: Show us your logburners/fires

You should have enough wood there for a couple if days anyway. They're great getting up to light ours soon, I need to pop 2 doors down for some wood scraps. They've pulled their house to bits before moving in and I've bagsyed all the skirting boards and door frames.

We pulled our back boiler out last year and replaced with std combi.

Im now left with a plastered hole but would love a small log burner - do you need a specific pipe/flue up the chimney?

Im off to see if my coffee's done..

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Best thing we have done to our house. Nothing better than a lovely warm fire of an evening. 🙂

carbon - yes you need an appropriate solid fuel chimney liner or flue pipe. Some good advice here:
http://www.stovesonline.co.uk/stove_help_and_advice.html

Drac - Ive got some stuff in the yard to use up but no chainsaw at the moment so it has to be cut on the chop saw....

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(Haven't got a picture of it in my house to hand)

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Not mine, but like this.

Again don't have an actual picture of our stove but this is it and double sided, put so much heat out we haven't turned the heating on yet, other than lighting the fire most days

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Im off to see if my coffee's done..

we do all our hot water and heating from our large multi-fuel one (we've also a small morso type in the sitting room too).

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(I know it's dusty - cleaned the ash-pan out before lighting it and just got to run the hoover over the hearth)

Bit chilly when you get up in the morning but keeps the house toasty warm. We're getting plenty of free wood at the moment which helps too...

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Here's my old one. Mostly burned peat on it. It stood about six feet high and was hugely efficient.

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Any gratuitous excuse to show you my log pile is welcome.

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With newly laid access road.
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Great for drying out cycling shoes ...
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Not quite as trendy a setting as the photos above but it keeps us cosy. Chimney goes through the centre of the house and acts as a radiator in the bedrooms.

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this morning after last night's burn!

Stoner, the stove is great but you will never be able to do a proper pole dance around that pole, you have fitted it far too close to the wall. 🙂

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mcmoonter that is a wonderful woodstore........... git 😉

Stoner: how well does the Bialetti heat up on the stove?

I put it on there when the stove was only just starting going. By the time Id frozen my arse off throwing some more tiles on the shed roof about an hour later the pot was done. But I have no idea how long it took. So the answer is [s]0mins > t > 60mins.[/s] Actually since it wasnt done after a 10 minute check, to help you with your calculations shark, it's 10mins > t > 60mins

HTH 😉

Im looking forward to loading the pole store to the roof...

One at our old house.

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One at our new (but much older) house. Ignore the buffoon in the helmet.

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Mcmoonter's log pile is seriously impressive.

If he cut it all with just that bow saw then even more so.

That's the best log pile in the whole world mcmoonter.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/show-me-your-woodburningmultifuel-stoves-please

Our woodstore was finally erected last weekend. Its too cold outside to bring the wood in.

Mcmoonter's log pile is seriously impressive.

If he cut it all with just that bow saw then even more so.

Thanks for that. I cut it with a chainsaw.

I get the wood mostly from my local hardwood sawmill.

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I'd like a job chopping up wood and making woodpiles like those ^^^^

Stop it..... I've got to wait until Tuesday next week before ours gets fitted 😥 Prays we don't have heavy snow fall over the weekend.

2 loads of logs & a nice single malt waiting.........

2 loads of logs

if you've got the space I would get some more in......... I'm amazed at how much wood we're getting through.

if you have a woddburuner, would you need to install some Carbon Monoxide alarms as well?

I'm amazed at how much wood we're getting through.

Second that - we got one fitted a month ago (and currently being taken out and redone as the slate hearth cracked!). I ordered 3 cubic litres of seasoned logs, and we've clattered through about half of it already. I'm rapidly reappraising my ideas of how much wood I need to collect and store in time for next year.

Got two of these (only small rooms)

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About to go and fire one of them up.

Best home improvement yet.

Much prefer the heat from the stove to that from the central heating.

Quite like making kindling too 😳

lmttm:

How do you find the Little Wenlock?

I'm looking at getting one fitted but I keep hearing different things from installers - Some say you need 225mm of hearth in front and some say 300mm - anyone got similar experience? Our hearth is only 690 front to back so I'm concerned about building regs

if you have a woddburuner, would you need to install some Carbon Monoxide alarms as well?

We have a carbon monoxide alarm in the house anyway. Not sure if its compulsory though.
Interestingly the guy that installed our woodburner said not to have the extractor fan on in the kitchen if the fire was on, (ours is in the room next to the kitchen) , so with the door open, it could cause problems with high levels of carbon monoxide poisoning.

My garage after testing my home made lights

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WCA after meeting you the other week and hearing how you came about your user the name, that photo ^^ does not surprise me 🙂

As part of the rather dramatic decision making process in the North household, it seems that we're moving.

House we're looking at has no fireplace and no chimney. It feels wrong to live in a house without a fire.

Is it possible to have an external flue to be able to have a stove (if not an open fire, which I prefer)?

(Oh, and some ace pics up there^^ 😀 )

Our neighbour had an external flue put in. It had to go through one of the children's bedrooms though.

I too could not live in a place without some sort of fire place. Its fires, windows and doors that give a property character.

OMITN are you moving nearer to us (Marple) in the semi rural parts of Manchester?

I've got another couple of loads ready to collect once the stove is running. We'll also be committing the ultimate sin and burn *some coal.

Our HETAS supplier/installer say monoxide alarm is required to get the stove install signed off.

OMIN we don't have a chimney, we're having a flue run straight off the stove up through the attic and out the roof. Not cheap but will give a nice straight run for smoke and cleaning it.

Nope. Lancashire (twixt Wigan and Chorley - near to the inlaws for childcare, etc. - we both have potential future job woes, so are moving while we can, and while we have grandparents in the vicinity).

Place we're looking at is a bungalow, so potentially the flue could go through the upstairs/dormer bedroom.

Will be a shame to leave Didsbury, and our house (which we have made v nice, I must say).

Still have connections out your way, Bunnyhop - best friends/our godchildren are in New Mills.

Just for Stoner... 😉

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There you go, an expat woodburner:

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Our HETAS supplier/installer say monoxide alarm is required to get the stove install signed off.

Is this correct? Not mentioned at our install two years ago, or is it new?

>Lancashire (twixt Wigan and Chorley

Oooh, my neck of the woods, I grew up there. Where 'bouts?

I'm currently enjoying this, before popping out to get my youngest one from school.

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And in the workshop sits old faithfull - not pretty, but warms the place up nicely.

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@SWT

I knew a girl that shape once...

Oooh, my neck of the woods, I grew up there. Where 'bouts?

Bispham, currently. Inlaws in Heskin (nr Eccleston).

Need to work out catchment area for school in Croston (to permit a generational continuity, apparently).

TBH It's all happening to me, rather than me being involved..!

Just back in yesterday after a few alterations. Officially the last job done ready for full completion on the house 🙂
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Plan to lounge in front of it later with a beautiful 16 year old.

From Islay, obviously.

This thread has inspired my to get a load of scrap wood from work (busted packing cases) and spend the afternoon sawing.

Got enough cut for a few blazes. Need to borrow a bigger saw to get through the larger chunks.

Will light the fire and drink cheap red wine when the kids are in bed.

Making me think this . I have a house with no chimney or gas so any form of heating is gonna be expensivm. I have underfloor heating downstairs but upstairs its rubbish. An internal double flue could be just the ticket.altho not a cheap one 🙂

rather stupidly, yes, in theory for HEATAS sign off you need a carbon monoxide alarm situated within a certain range of the stove. Frankly a load of bollox. You're more likely to die of particulate induced cancer with a wood stove than CO poisoning. Still, it keeps some jobsworth happy Im sure. And fortunately I have a flexibly pragmatic installer.

The twin wall flue system is very versatile and you can run it inside or out of the house. There's various fire reg/heatas reg stuff when you go through floors or walls but its not too bad and mostly is sensible.

Our twinwall runs internally through the upstairs corridor, it's as good as a rad.

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Fitted two weeks ago to replace the oil burning stove which was costing a fortune. Stockton 11HB feeding the hot water and radiators, does get through wood quickly.

Nobody else keeps their bike in the living room then ?

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Note the kettle resting on two old chainrings to simmer. 😀

And my log pile. Quantity, not quality.

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Rented place, would be nice to have a log burner, bit more efficient, but who needs efficiency when you have access to at least 25 tonnes of firewood.
Must admit, it's not as well stacked as mcmoonters

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Midlandstrailquestgraham - you're either single, or lying and thats your mancave 😉

Own up you lot.
In all the photos every single woodburner is clean, tidy and looking in show home pristine condition.

I'm not single, but I live on my own.

There's a motorbike in the bedroom. 😀

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mcmoonter's logpile is worth a bump. Unbelievable!
I wish I had one in the house, but here's mine.

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I know it's not 'mine'...yet, but this is the one I am planning to have installed in a few months or so.......

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(in blue though)

It's nearly as exciting as getting a new bike!

graham for one awful moment i thought you had a reflector on that wheel. nice jotul, i had one in my room as a kid (my dad has it in his workshop now), we lived in a wooden shack in the woods built by gypsies in the 20's. i did smell of woodsmoke my entire childhood.

@ littlegirlbunny

Where do you get them from?

Is it multifuel?

Mine turned up today (Stovax Brunel), ready for installation next week.

It's really sad how much I'm looking forward to it.

was about to bump this thread too. Just had a wood delivery so the stack is loaded now:
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Working from home in the snow and have to keep lying in front of the fire to warm up. Beech logs at the moment though - so not as much heat getting chucked out as usual 🙁

If we're posting log stores. This is no.2 store.
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Midlandstrailquestgraham - impressive bike / living room interface. Well done.

McMoonter - it's been said before but that is a seriously impressive woodstore. My nomination for the STW Woodstore of the Year, without a doubt - will vote accordingly in the STW poll.

Wanted to get a wood burner in our chilly kitchen, but was told it would cost £6,500 due to all the flue claptrap. Grrrr - jealous of you lot!

LapSteel - Member

@ littlegirlbunny

Where do you get them from?

Is it multifuel?

From these people http://www.chesneys.co.uk/stoves.asp

The 6kw is multifuel, the 4kw is woodburner only

anticipates stoner jr removing bottom sticky out log......

Crap pic, but here you go. In action permanently at the moment!

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Mine turned up today (Stovax Brunel), ready for installation next week.

It's really sad how much I'm looking forward to it.

Not at all. I waited 3.5 years for ours to be fitted. I'm so excited about it even now its been in situ 3 months.

Ah McMoonter's logstore, thing of beauty [sigh] 😉

MidlandsTrailquestGraham,

Did you get styling advice from KingtonTrailquestJeremy?

I'm so jealous - our woodburner can't be installed until the end of January. Is it bad that I'm hoping February and March will be freezing so I can have it on all the time?

Here are another couple of good wood piles.

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iDave - Member

anticipates stoner jr removing bottom sticky out log......

I've always wondered that about logpiles. If the ones at the bottom are the oldest and driest, how do you get them out?

A cheeky request but whats a good source of free / cheap firewood?

We have a backboiler in our house that does all our heating / hot water. Coals not cheap and we cant steal any more of the neighbours tree before they notice...

Cheers,

David.

matthew - thats not the log store, just the fire pile. In the log store I have a series of stacked crates in which I can keep batches of seasoned/fresh wood.

Find a local farmer with some copses that he doesnt mind you salvaging windfall from?

TBH, at £90 for 1.3m3 Im not too bothered about buying good quality (dry) seasoned wood. As it works out at about 2-3p/kwH compared to 4p/kWh for my wood pellet boiler.

With a couple of exceptions it is clear that my standard of living is dropping further and further behind that of others of a similar age 😯

Nice thread. Some inspiring looking set ups there. I'm in process of saving a couple a thou to have one installed... Oh well, this time next year perhaps.

First, rip out old gas fire and back boiler, then rip plaster off chimney breast looking for 'original features':

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Next, prepare brickwork, a bit of re-pointing with lime mortar. Leave old flue in place. Make good the hearth. Leave the old soot staining from the 'original' stove (NOT off the backboiler!):

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Then, get up onto roof, undo the bracket holding the old flue in place, then go back down and yank the flue out making sure you bring as much old soot down too. Then install new multi-fuel stove:

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Then you're set. Make sure 1st fire is a wee one:

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Now, if only I could get Molly out for a walk! (note the boots and trainers drying):

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Finally, a pic of my pitiful wood pile 😳 :

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Got home to find the missus had put the decorations up, and the stove toasting up the room nicely. Had it put in 2 months ago, without doubt the best investment for the house ever.

Working on converting the outhouse for the woodstore

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