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More meds please
open fire or wood burner
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You have a housemaid and a drawing room?
Do you also employ a 'Ted' to dig the ditches in the lower field (and paint your concrete posts?)
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We have an open fire in which we tend to burn waste wood.
While a proper wood burner has the advantage of being more efficient, we can put larger pieces onto our fire, as its open. The odd bit that won't quite fit in can stick out, and we feed it in as it burns down.
Not ideal, but saves more sawing.
My sister has a back boiler to her open fire, which saves her money.
Grand Designs often show wood burners with the metal chimney section inside the house heating the room as it goes up to the roof. This seems a more sensible idea than sending it up a brick chimney, but of course not practical to most of us who have a traditional British house.
While a proper wood burner has the advantage of being more efficient, we can put larger pieces onto our fire, as its open. The odd bit that won't quite fit in can stick out, and we feed it in as it burns down.
Not ideal, but saves more sawing.
My sister has a back boiler to her open fire, which saves her money.
Grand Designs often show wood burners with the metal chimney section inside the house heating the room as it goes up to the roof. This seems a more sensible idea than sending it up a brick chimney, but of course not practical to most of us who have a traditional British house.
I should add that I do have scorch marks on my rug in front of the fire.
We do now have some small rugs that were donated that seem immune to it, and they do the job up to a point. We put these out on top of the main rug to protect it from furtehr scorching.
One thing that is fustrating is that we can't get a fire guard that fits to our fire place without a gap at the top. Its a fairly standard shape (an arch at the top), but all guards are the wrong shape.
We do now have some small rugs that were donated that seem immune to it, and they do the job up to a point. We put these out on top of the main rug to protect it from furtehr scorching.
One thing that is fustrating is that we can't get a fire guard that fits to our fire place without a gap at the top. Its a fairly standard shape (an arch at the top), but all guards are the wrong shape.
I've got a Hunter wood burning stove connected to a stainless, insulated flue. I had it professionally installed as you now have to have a certificate of installation ensuring that there is an adequate through draft in the room where it is installed and the fireplace and grate have certain dimensions. Oddly the stove has to be the minimum size for the room as they work more efficiently going at full pelt.
Make sure you get one with an "air wash" as these keep the front glass clean and a "throat" to deflect the heat into the room. Before going to bed open all the vents to ensure that the fire burns fiercely ensuring that there is no condensation of tar in the flue. You will have to have a special 5" or 6" brush for cleaning the flue. I had mine installed 5 years ago and it has paid for itself twice over since then.
One final piece of advice which has been given before, on no account buy a cheap Chinese cast iron stove as they will not last 5 minutes and spares are unobtainable.
Make sure you get one with an "air wash" as these keep the front glass clean and a "throat" to deflect the heat into the room. Before going to bed open all the vents to ensure that the fire burns fiercely ensuring that there is no condensation of tar in the flue. You will have to have a special 5" or 6" brush for cleaning the flue. I had mine installed 5 years ago and it has paid for itself twice over since then.
One final piece of advice which has been given before, on no account buy a cheap Chinese cast iron stove as they will not last 5 minutes and spares are unobtainable.
Surprising how many people are going " back to basics " either installing open fires or stoves of one description or another.
Im not complaining though keeps me busy in my spare time cleening chimneys
Go for one with a boiler.
I would stick to the well known makes Clearview, Morso or Jotul, get advice from a specialist fitter before fitting or buying one as you may get one either too big or not big enough, always ensure that the wood you burn is as dry as possible, if you can hear it sizzleing then its too wet and you will cause tarring up your flue or chimney or if you have a liner possibly block it completely, and run the risk of a fire.
Should you ever have a chimney fire NEVER put salt on to kill it, burning salt can create chlorine gas, far safer to douse it sparingly with water or better still call the fire brigade....thats what they are there for.
Im not complaining though keeps me busy in my spare time cleening chimneys
Go for one with a boiler.
I would stick to the well known makes Clearview, Morso or Jotul, get advice from a specialist fitter before fitting or buying one as you may get one either too big or not big enough, always ensure that the wood you burn is as dry as possible, if you can hear it sizzleing then its too wet and you will cause tarring up your flue or chimney or if you have a liner possibly block it completely, and run the risk of a fire.
Should you ever have a chimney fire NEVER put salt on to kill it, burning salt can create chlorine gas, far safer to douse it sparingly with water or better still call the fire brigade....thats what they are there for.
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