Wood burner

[Born Hunter 17,763]

a mate of mine had one fitted that wasnt checked by a HETAS certified tradesman and he ended up in A&E and nearly died so think about who you get to fit them lads

 

Did he have the full flu linning or just fit it to the already existing chimney? Was it large enough to require an air vent through an external wall for CO ventilation and did he have it done?

it was fitted without a flu linning and it nearly killed him mate

 

Yeah, thought as much. I'm deffinately going with the linner. They are safer and better for the chimney. A lot of people don't realise that because of the improved efficiency of the log burner compared to the original open fire the smoke and gases is a lot cooler and condense in the chimney unlike an open fire where it is much hotter and 99% leaves the chimney. This shits the chimney up badly with tar and shite. A linner restricts the chimneys volume not giving the smoke chance to condense.

 

I'll buy a buggie though just in case

[Malt 379]

I can't be doing with paying someone to do it. I'm pretty confident I can do it myself. If I have to pay a fitter it's not happening at all I'm afraid.

 

I just know that if you don't have them fitted by a registered fitter you are meant to get the building inspector in to give it the nod. I wonder if it is possible to get a qualified fitter in to check it over?

some fitters do inspections, it's just a matter of which ones cheaper out of the fitter or the building inspector.. Do you know the regs? They're available online here and there, I'll dig them out if you can't find them..

 

I've got a folder of asorted advice and regs from various sites. I'd apreciate anything you may have malt.

 

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_ADJ_2010.pdf

 

[Born Hunter 17,763]

Cheers Malt!

[Strong Stuff 2,171]

I wouldn't swap you now mate.

 

I only had 2 years of messing with coal, wasting too much time finding and cutting logs and cleaning ........

 

That was enough!

 

I'm loving pressing the button here and being too hot 15 minutes later, for a fraction of the cost of logs and coal.

 

Yours looks pretty though.

 

all the fecking fuss you made on here --posts about log burners, log splitters ,chain saws, log sleds ,log stores, best kind of logs , what matches to light it with --- and you gave it bollox wimp

 

Reported for on line bullying (again! )

 

 

 

In case you hadn't guessed, I'm an obsessive, have to do everything to highest degree, had a mega fire grate, best logs, best smokeless fuel etc etc etc.

 

Cost a bast@rd fortune and was a pain in the hoop to clean every day, stock fuel up etc, toooooooo much messing, might be ok for all you married oldies with wives to escape from, but I won't miss it at all!

[wilbur foxhound 480]

my wife lights ours end of october and it goes out start of may lol,if your like me and only burn logs,take the grate out and burn it off the floor of your stove,my wood is all free it is cut and stacked it in the spring and burnt the following winter it burns down to a fine ash and only needs cleaned out once a week

[hillbilly boy 109]

Malt I use mostly wood but also stove heat (type of coal) burns a treat , pack it round wood and it holds it in longer , also a type off peat block , get them from garages burn well , lads come in my house and after 15mins there falling asleep when it's lite lol

we are falling asleep cause your boring not cause it is so hot you only burn twigs anyway

[diggory 130]

anyone using an eco fan, we got one this year and it has made such a difference.

[j j m 6,539]

i love wood burners

[jonah. 775]

i chuck al sorts of shit in it, from old credit cards to bag of rabbit skins and legs to deceased ferrets great getting rid of evidence as well as heating

 

dirty b*****d.

[scothunter 12,609]

i chuck al sorts of shit in it, from old credit cards to bag of rabbit skins and legs to deceased ferrets great getting rid of evidence as well as heating

 

dirty b*****d.