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[Closed] Jotul F3 woodburning stove... any good?

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I'm about to buy one of these with 5m of 3mm thick flue for 1250 Euros (£1k)

Reviews seem good and so does the price as this goes for £1.3k in the UK!!!

So anyone wish to share their experiences or is there better for the price?


 
Posted : 26/10/2012 12:26 pm
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Other than being ugly (in my eyes) it's seems fairly average [url= http://www.whatstove.co.uk/jotul-stoves/jotul-f3-stove.html ]according to this good site[/url].


 
Posted : 26/10/2012 1:25 pm
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Personally if I were spending that money I'd get a [url= http://www.whatstove.co.uk/clearview-stoves/clearview-vision-500-stove.html ]Clearview Vision 500[/url] but I am biased! Love ours though and just got a vision inset as well now.


 
Posted : 26/10/2012 4:52 pm
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We put a jutol 8 stove in 13 yrs ago with a glass lined domestic boiler. it is one of the best things we ever done in our house. later we out a charnwood in another room and it doeses not come close to the jotul. i know nothing about other makes but I hear morso are also good


 
Posted : 27/10/2012 9:54 am
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did any of you fit the woodburner yourselves?
tempted by one but installation costs seem high


 
Posted : 27/10/2012 11:05 am
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yip, I done both with no bother, just very important to make sure good draft in chimney to make sure smoke clears out


 
Posted : 27/10/2012 11:13 am
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willb
any detailed tips you can give me?
have been quoted very high prices for install


 
Posted : 27/10/2012 11:16 am
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What's your quote hitman? I have just been quoted £3.3k for the install of a stovax riva 40, £650 of that was for the floating sand stone hearth tho, I think the install was £1,500


 
Posted : 27/10/2012 12:12 pm
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We just had a Morso fitted for £2,400 including the stove which gores for about £1,000. It was an absolute comedy of errors though - really cowboyish stuff, but the end result is good (at last!).


 
Posted : 27/10/2012 1:38 pm
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It was over £1000 which seems a ridiculous amount. Haven't looked into this that closely but surely the work require isn't that complex or difficult?


 
Posted : 27/10/2012 2:08 pm
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We had ours 'proffesionaly' fitted by a right pair of cowboys. Batley Barless sent them then claimed they were self employed so 'it's not our fault'! After threats of a solicitors letter they came back and sorted it.
Painful but ended ok.

If you can get on the roof then do it yourself. If you don't need a liner then definately do it yourself.

A mate of mine had a well respected firm round to smoke test his chimney. They told him it needed a liner, his mate then came round for a look at doing the job only to find the damn chimney was capped...


 
Posted : 27/10/2012 2:25 pm
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Got the jotul mf3 in the end, €1250 (£1k) inc 6metres of 3mm thick 120mm dia flue....

Absolutely amazing piece of kit...throes out over 6kw and I am now too warm!!!

Installed it myself...took 4 hours!!


 
Posted : 31/10/2012 2:08 pm
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hitman

easy stuff to do, get on roof and drop the liner down your existing chimney, I had a kit with a chimney cap thing (several big jubilee clamps) - straightforward.

you need to go through building control to get it signed off if you want to make it official, which isn't too difficult


 
Posted : 31/10/2012 2:57 pm
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Building control? in Italy?

che mentale!!!!!


 
Posted : 31/10/2012 3:33 pm
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Should have kept my mouth shut up there ^^. As of last weekend my sister is giving me a Jotul F100 that is surplus to requirements..... so now, although not my first design choice, I think they're fab 😆


 
Posted : 31/10/2012 4:38 pm