wood burner

I moved into a rented house 2 years ago. They have a wood burner with back boiler and the way the landlord talked about the system you’d think there was no better system in the entire planet. Was told we were only allowed to burn wood (it is a multi fuel stove, confirmed by the sweep). Burnt...

Hi everyone. I really apppreciate any advice. I have a wood burning stove with a flue that terminates just above a sealed fireboard. I've had a WBS company check it out and they said this is unusual, and it needs a whole new flue liner etc to meet modern regs and to brun properly. They say as...

Hi all! We have a wood burner in our living room which emits heat but only to the surrounding areas now the entire room- well not for ages anyway! Do you know if a placing a fan in front of the fire will help? I know they should go on top but I don’t have space on top to place one. Any...

Hey, Took the fireplace out and got left with what looks like a neat builders opening. Can this opening be extended if I add a new wider lintel? Extending only by 10cm each side. Can the gather/bricks inside be removed? What if sides of chimney breast are hollow? Seems like they might...

Hi there, I hope someone can help as I'm struggling to diagnose what the issue could be and not having much luck getting a professional tradesperson to look at the problem I moved into a property last year with a wet system installed where the wood burner can be used to heat the hot water and...

Hi, My Father v. Sick & so just me now, to finish fireplace w/ stove. Air vent (I know correct size of hole required for our stove, floor cavity good, old house (so 5kw deducted pre-calculation) and air brick on outside wall, ground level and parallel to fireplace, all good) But where to...

Another (maybe silly) question here. Having to use elbows for feed and return out of the woodburner (yes it heats water as well) due to no space, original plan was 1" straight to 28mm street bend. So, need to pack the threads on the woodburner- normally i'd use loads of ptfe and some boss white...

Finally going to connect the thermal store to the woodburner. Height differences are a bit marginal- about a metre vertical on the hot across 2 metres horizontal. I'll be using a pumped loading valve so under normal circs this won't be a problem but under abnormal circs which works best- a...

Hello, As I was cleaning my wood burning stove, which I had installed last year, I have noticed that the black panel above it is loose and ashes are coming down from the chimney. Any feedback? Many thanks

Hi all, We have recently moved in to a victorian house and ripped the old 60's fireplace out in order to have a wood burner fitted. It's in pretty good condition underneath but needs levelling before I can tile. What would be best to use? The back section is about an inch lower than the front...

Hi DIYNotters, I have a flat GRP roof installed by a builder, through the roof is a twin-walled chimney from a wood burner. Roof was installed 3 years ago. The builder (reputable) replaced a flat felt roof including the boarding and ran the GRP up to the twin wall flue without flashing. We used...

I'm installing a wood burning stove and the collar is attached by three screws inside it. The question I have is how can screw the collar in if I'm fitting the stove pipe to the adapter poking out of the closure plate, slipping the collar on to the pipe and then sliding the stove into position...

Hi all, I am just in the process of having a new woodburner installed after having an old gas fire taken out. I am using a HETAS registered fitter for the job but have had builders in doing other work around the house as well. I have an external chimney stack so the fitter initially just opened...

I after some general advise about what might be achievable in terms of opening up our fire place to fit a wood burner. I'm not planning to do the work myself (house would likely collapse given my track record!) and we have already had one guy around for a quote. Unfortunately he gave us some...

Hi lads, what typical install cost for labour, double sided stove costing £849,chimney to left but will need to cut if up a bit to get bend flue in or it can be done with twin flue (not using existing chimney) although I hear this is expensive...for a 5 meter straight up from stove which would...

Hello all Currently have a flue liner installed that was previously used for a gas appliance. I was wondering if it can be used for a wood burner? Is there anyway of testing for whether the current liner is 904 or 316 grade? If I can't use it, then I will buy a new one. Has anyone opinions on...

Morning Guys, I'm looking to install a word-burner / central heating with thermal store as our only heating system (don't have any other cost effected options). Finding it very hard going getting reliable info on such a system, just wondering if anyone has been down this road and could share...

Hello, I'm getting a woodburner installed next week. Obviously theres a last minute panic. Do I need to seal the brickwork in the fireplace? I'm cleaning the brick faces and doing some repointing, and will seal the hearth, but was going to leave the brick alone until someone mentioned it. Ideas?

Hi, I'm considering installing a small wood burner in my block shed. the roof consists of corrugated bitumen sheets, insulated and lined inside with plywood. My question is will this roof cope with a flue from a wood burning stove. I've assumed that he heat of the flue, may be a problem for...

Hi I've opened up my fireplace and installed a lintel ready for the installation of a 5KW, 85KG log burner. As I got down to floor level I noticed it was very damp, so I removed the quarry tiles and found soil. I am intending to hammer in some hardcore lay some DPM and fill the 3 inch void...