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Here's our little fella. Much needed as its going to dip well below freezing tonight, maybe even -10. Brrrrrrrr.
That's it, we need a wood burner!
littlegirlbunny - Member
I know it's not 'mine'...yet, but this is the one I am planning to have installed in a few months or so.......(in blue though)
It's nearly as exciting as getting a new bike!
Any idea of the make and model of this one please Little Bunnygirl? We're currently shopping for a new wood burner and Mrs C kind of likes the look of this.
I do like a lot of these woodburners pictured but can't help thinking how clinical and uninviting most of the rooms look. White or cream walls, stone or wood floors etc. Am I the only person left who loves a nice carpet in the lounge?
AnthonyB''s lounge looks really cosy though!!
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and much later.
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bravo smarty. that's proper grand designs, right there.
not a log burner but our "real fire" at haloween, note the creepy hand log in the fire 😯
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Really got the log stack envy - going to have to sort ours out
I wouldn't say that stoner, not much up to your handywork but still with my own hands 🙂
Here's what I did with the other fireplace, not quite a stove but.......
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youre too modest smarty. Thats fair flair.
I like the back splash.
This thread is innane!
Ours about 5 minutes ago, time for a brew and feet up 😀
Shame about all the other work that still needs doing to the living room.....
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Ours has been ace this week, a super toasty lounge which still was warm the next morning so no need to whack the heating on.
Flying through wood though, going have to stock up a bit more before Christmas..
robdob - Even though our room ^^does look clinical to you, what you can't see are the long floral curtains, loads of cushions and blue chair and red fabric setee. Also our other reception room looks like a tarts boudoir, with bright red wall paper and floral curtains.
Smarty - I love what you've done to those rooms, also liking the fact you kept the original doors.
Dave trying it for size...
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We just bought two doors like Smarty's for our [s]project[/s] house. What did you use to treat/coat/whatever them?
quote]We just bought two doors like Smarty's for our project house. What did you use to treat/coat/whatever them?
Very lucky with our doors as every door in the house is original with the backplates and knobs too.
Miketually - after stripping I just made sure they were gently dried at room temp, lots of sanding, lots of clear wax and lots of buffing of that wax. Took apart the backplates polished the brass internals, sprayed the body matt black and french polished the knobs on my lathe
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Here's Jake watching Brian have a bath in front of our stove.
Mine. Morso Squirrel 1412,
Lovely and warm...
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Go on then, here are ours.
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Flying through wood though, going have to stock up a bit more before Christmas..
Glad it's not just us then!!
Out of interest how much are people paying for their logs approx? We've been getting those big trade bags (cubic metre perhaps??) delivered but at this rate our log expenditure is going to be astronomical. Admittedly 3.5 snow days this week has depleted our log pile considerably but all the same...!!
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A cubic metre cost us £70 delivered (with a free bag of kindling) but I reckon it still needs further seasoning, it doesn't burn as well as some logs left by the house's former owner. We've been running the fire for three weeks or so and are about halfway through the load. Kiln dried wood is astronomical, it's about £200 for the same amount!
Cost of wood?
About 1 gallon of petrol to get there and back, plus about 2 hours of my time cutting, carrying and spliting.
Here's our fireplace. German law states that fireplaces are not allowed to be open, hence the glass doors. It's in use almost permanently ATM.
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And this is the wood store.
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I'm burning broken packing cases that I get from work for nowt. Good job too as this cold snap has meant a lot of burning.
Timber off cuts from the local wood yard £10 for a HUGE load
Crosscut saw in the shed to cut it up for kindling £180
Ifor Williams trailer to transport wood £850
Towbar fitting to new car to pull trailer £280
Seasoned hardwood logs per cubic meter bag +fuel to collect it £35
Tanalised timbers and roofing slates to build log store £230
Chainsaw £200
Hydraulic log splitter £310
The look, smell and heat from a real fire...............PRICELESS
Hydraulic log splitter £310
Now there is a tool I feel the need for. We have a lot of knotted elm that is great for burning but very tough to split by hand. I usually just cut it up with the chainsaw into stove firebox sized chunks.
I have a grey Fergie tractor as a hydraulic power source. Which are best, tractor mounted or freestanding electric/hydraulic.
Perhaps this is worthy of a new thread.
Stoner, thats the size I was thinking of for our place, if you dont mind spilling the beans how much for the burner and installation approx?
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OK, anyone give me an idea on cost of purchase/instalation on a small to medium size burner? 😀
About £1500-2000 when we had ours done a few years back. The main cost is the flue/liner IIRC.
WELL WORTH IT.
Think it's a Stovax.
Do the HEATAS bit as well and check for grants from your local council.
Tim
humm.... i don't think my washing machine drum and metal stand quite cuts the mustard in this thread....
humm.... i don't think my washing machine drum and metal stand quite cuts the mustard in this thread....
Pics!
Its important to have the right bike as well.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyledriver/3864316388/
Cost for me is £1800 for installation (3 storey building so needs scaffolding) plus £850 for a Stovan Brunel. Expensive, but thoroughly worth it.
5-6m of flue with no bends but passing through a floor/roof is about £1300 fitted (I've had two fitted in the last few months, one for the log burner, one for the pellet boiler)
Stove can be anywhere from £500 to £2500. Ours was on special from Church Stretton fires, 11kW Lacaunza Leyre for £600.
As for wood, I pay £90 for 1.3m3 of 22-25% moisture seasoned ash. That fills that wood stack by the burner and another two lime crates.
humm.... i don't think my washing machine drum and metal stand quite cuts the mustard in this thread....Pics!
Indeed
Seriously?
I'll try to get some tonight then.
A cubic metre cost us £70 delivered (with a free bag of kindling) but I reckon it still needs further seasoning, it doesn't burn as well as some logs left by the house's former owner. We've been running the fire for three weeks or so and are about halfway through the load. Kiln dried wood is astronomical, it's about £200 for the same amount!
How does Pearsons in Marple compare? That's where we get our wood and coal. He was offering 50 bags for £100, but that was before the cold weather started.
Never heard of Pearsons. Where is it omitn?
Ours is from Glossop. We shared the cost with a neighbour who also ordered a cubic metre, so we got free delivery too.
[url= http://www.google.co.uk/maps/place?cid=7425235310557561372&q=pearsons+fuels+marple&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=pearsons+fuels&hnear=Marple,+Stockport ]Just along the lane that leads to Rose Hill Station off Stockport Road.[/url]
Family business - they do coal, primarily, but plenty of wood, too. No idea if the quality will be up to the task, but we find it OK. I tend to ensure that I split the logs (our fire is only small) when I get them and then hang them in the cellar to season further.
I kow where Pearson's is, didn;t know they did wood - I know them as a coal merchant. Was thinkin of trying a bag of coal (or proper smokeless fuel) to see how it goes.
this is the place we got ours from
http://thelogstores.co.uk/Firewood-Log-Products.html
we went for the cubic metre of seasoned hardwood. I reckon it's not *quite* dry enough at the moment, maybe due to how I stored it unprotected as we had it delivered before I had chance to build a proper woodstore (on the theory that if it was delivered, I'd be forced to build a woodsitre - incorrect as it turned out, it was over a month later!). HOwever I usually bring in a couple of basket loads and stack itup next to the fire to dry iout and it's fine then
when you say "50 bags", how big is a bag? if it;s a cubic metre builder's bgag, I'm in 😉
So jealous of all these wood stoves. I'm in a rented house and despite there being a lovely brick fireplace, which has been boarded across the top with a precut hole for a flue there is no woodburner
Not a cubic metre bag, and not hardwood either. It comes in the usual orange netting bags you see all over. I suspect it's a sideline to the coal business.
They sell some odd coal - German wood coal (dense, pressed wood with coal dust). Burns hot and long, though, and smokeless. they also sell other coal, too.
I reckon we're paying about the same as everyone else who's quoted a price for a cubic metre - where I am worried is just how quickly we're getting through the bloody stuff!!
We're lucky to get a cubic metre to last a month at the moment, what am I doing wrong??
Mcmoonter -we run a Technorton saw bench and splitter off the back of a Ford 3000, you'll be hard pushed to get one new as they went bust last year, but they are fairly prolific.
Even with 6-ton of splitting ram, not everything will split, had to break down a load of black poplar on the saw.
12' trailer is £90 and a soft/hard mix
our stuff sits as cordwood for at least a year, maybe 3 (depending on species) before splitting and then 6+ months in one of our vented stores.
Use the flue and door vents to control your burn, or get wetter stuff, had one customer complain our stuff burnt too quick, he was previously buying wood off a tree surgeon with the sap still pumping. Did say he was a lot warmer though and easier to get going.
Here's mine, it's a portway and has made a massive difference to the whole feel of the house. Fitted in January this year and must have saved us a fair amount in gas bills as just have the heating on for about 2 hours a day now.
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Here's ours. Installed this September after many years with a Villager. Toasty.
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Use the flue and door vents to control your burn
Our top vents are pretty much closed (a little bit open of course) and the bottom ones shut tight once it's going and that provides plenty of draw I find; even then I find myself putting another big un (or equivalent) on there about once every 30/40 mins or so to keep it going...
For the first month or so I struggled to manage the fire, but having read the instruction nook (I know, shame on me, I'm not a real man) I find I'm doing more or less what munkster does - everything wide open to start with (even leave the door open a crack for the first few mins) to get it all going, then shut the bottom vents, then the top one runs at about 1/3rd to 1/2 open. I do find adding a single log means it doesn't burn as well as if you add two and leave some kind of gap between them to allow air to circulate - looks like the fire on the first log kind of feeds of the fire from the other log
munkster - do you know what wood you are burning? Some things are damn near spontaneous, giving off ridiculous heat like lawsons cypress, to slow burners like chestnut, that just smoulder without much heat. One place I lived was quite windy, so had a flue gate to limit the draw, works basecamp has a short flue so it has an adjustable fan on it. Sounds as if you have adjusted it as much as you can.
still waiting for the washing machine drum photo!!
Hi timber - I'm not sure what wood it is - I seem to recall I was told it was Ash (?) but there seems to be a little bit of variety in there - doesn't all look the same variety. As a result some of it is woeful whereas some of it burns a real treat.
As per nbt's post it's taken me a good couple of months to get anywhere near confident in how to use the damned thing - lighting the bugger in the first place has become a source of much frustration (how hard can it BE to make wood burn? "quite, at times" it would seem...) but think I've generally got that taped now.
Any decent recommendations for logs/wood in the Derby area would be much appreciated - might need to try a few different places to see how things compare.
This thread has inspired me to get a log burner.
The problem I have is the stack has been removed and slated over and the chimney breast has been sealed.
What do I need to do to install one?
Would I need a stack and the chimney opening up or just a flue?
Got me thinking now too. I can feel the warmth already 😳
I'm still waiting to see the washing machine drum log burner?
*sobs*
I miss our woodburner - had one in Sheffield, and now our landlord here won't fit one...
*sobs some more*
And McMoonter - I have serious log pile envy.
Moving house in 5 weeks, this will be my 1st log burner. Looking forward to enjoying a few Whiskies sitting in front of it, well once i find a log supplier......
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Fitted one in the garden shed; loved it so much for working beside that put another three in the house. Last few weeks been fantastic, cut heating bills by some amount; wood source: local fuel merchants, sawmill offcuts, timber yard offcuts and a couple of local friends with fallen trees that need clearing..
Once I get pictures organised will put them up..