Just had our new stove fitted and wow - it is so much easier to use than the Morso one at our last place - lights first time with zero fuss and attention, heats quickly, only needs three or four logs to last a whole evening, glass remaining perfectly clean. Fantastic! (Parkway Aspect 4 if you are interested)
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Good stuff.
Every chance the house you are in now has a better draw on the chimney, meaning lighting and controlling is better.
Every chance the house you are in now has a better draw on the chimney,
Yeah - at the last place we had a concrete liner poured down the chimney but this time we opted for a metal flue (which get up to working temperature more quickly) which I think has a lot to do with it. But also this time we have got a log burner rather than multi-fuel stove so we have one vent to control the fire rather than the three our last one did and it just works.
How long did you have to wait between the laying of the hearth & the installing of the stove? I'm having the hearth & flue liner etc fitted on Monday, I already have the stove & I'm wondering if it can all be done that day.
Your fire place looks great!
My cycling buddy has a big wood burner rather than our mid-sized multi and I have to agree that the burn and the flame is far better than when we burn logs. Can anybody explain the difference in design between a mutli-fuel and a pure woodburner? We'll be needing wood only when we retire to Scotland in two years.
How long did you have to wait between the laying of the hearth & the installing of the stove? I'm having the hearth & flue liner etc fitted on Monday, I already have the stove & I'm wondering if it can all be done that day.
It was all fitted in a day (removal of old gas fire, capping off supply, flue liner, hearth, all fitting and making good - two of them and around 6 or 7 hours on site)
Your fire place looks great!
Cheers - still a work in progress - we are going to upcycle the surround by painting it up etc but that'll be next year now.
Hopefully mine will be all set by Monday evening then, although I assume I won't be able to light it til all has set around it.
Yeah I was told to wait 24 hours.
It was a long 24 hours.
And then, naturally the weather changed so we were sat with a fire roaring when it was 14 degrees outside at night LOL!
AFAIA wood burning prefers the air to come from above while coal requires an airflow from below, so a multifuel stove has grate (while wood can sit in a bed of ashes) and controls for airflow from underneath and above while the woodburning stove may only have control for air from above (although air from below helps with starting).Can anybody explain the difference in design between a mutli-fuel and a pure woodburner?
We have two multifuel stoves (Clearview) which seem to handle all fuels well and have a handy removable ash pan which makes emptying it a simple task, while the Jotul woodburning stove we also have does not have an ashpan so need emptying through the door which is not quite a easy.
Stove looks nice Johndoh but I think two days is a little early to be giving a review on a stove ...... I think two years is a bit more like it!
Stoves don't chuck much heat down so the heath should be OK as long as whatever it's bedded on can take the weight of the stove pretty quickly.How long did you have to wait between the laying of the hearth & the installing of the stove?