[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.