Sky_Blue_Daz
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Or a multi fuel burner? Also how difficult are they to install, hoping to install one in the very near future and want to take out the existing old gas fire and fireplace and replace it ?
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Flying Fokker
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Maybe read up on your journey towards illness if you buy one? Trendy, money saving, bad for your health.
Not a fan of these in towns although I totally understand why people may choose them at the moment. My neighbour has one and it is like I’m living in the 60’s with all of the fumes coming off their chimney.
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Not a fan of these in towns although I totally understand why people may choose them at the moment. My neighbour has one and it is like I’m living in the 60’s with all of the fumes coming off their chimney.
Major health warning to anyone with a wood burning stove in home
Wood burning stoves produce 750 times more tiny particle pollution than a modern HGV truck
clint van damme
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Got one. Theyre sound. We're about to open up the biggest new oil field in Europe so the idea that you burning a few logs will end us is fucking nonsense
SIR ERNIE
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Buy a good one and get a HETAS certified engineer to install it. You'll probably need a flexible chimney liner. Burn only seasoned hardwood. Sit back, feet up, glass of wine, enjoy.
skybluetony176
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Get it installed professionally is my advice. When I got mine I had no end of people telling me do it yourself, you can use the original flue from the gas fire etc etc. 10 minutes on google and it all turned out to be bollocks. Get someone in who knows what they’re doing. At the end of the day I came to the conclusion heaven forbid something went wrong with my kids asleep upstairs and even if they wasn’t then finding out you’ve made your home insurance worthless because it wasn’t installed by someone properly qualified to install it. Was worth the piece of mind in the end for me.
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Kneeza
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Before we downsized to our poxy little (read easy to heat) semi, we had a huge bungalow and there was no gas in the village. I installed a bottled gas system for the hot water and rads, but this was incredibly expensive compared to piped gas, so we ended up not using the central heating at all.
However, I also put a multi-fuel in the living room and another in the kitchen/second sitting/ dining room (it was a very big room.
With both of these burning (with smokeless coal overnight) just leaving all the internal doors open kept the whole house warm, so much so that we often had windows wide open in midwinter just to get the temperature down a bit!
Do it.
However, I also put a multi-fuel in the living room and another in the kitchen/second sitting/ dining room (it was a very big room.
With both of these burning (with smokeless coal overnight) just leaving all the internal doors open kept the whole house warm, so much so that we often had windows wide open in midwinter just to get the temperature down a bit!
Do it.
Sbarcher
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Needs to be Ecodesign approved to burn sustainable fuel and get an air flow front glass design if possible to keep doors clean. Hetas installer will issue you with a compliance certificate which will be requested should you sell your property. 5in flue running either internally or externally with an inspection plate to check safe operation. Use coal where possible as it burns much hotter and longer than logs.
Sbarcher
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One very important thing. Make sure there is plenty of ventilation in the room or you will get combustion spillage (Co) into the room.
ProfessorbyGrace
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Yes, I heard this also, from 2025 (prospectively). Installed ones, anyway, as the government will have a job banning portable/outdoor ones. Won’t stop them trying though, I imagine.
Sbarcher
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It won’t be retrospective so any installed stoves at that time will be fine.
ProfessorbyGrace
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Ah, I see.
Sky_Blue_Daz
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Lit ours for the first time tonight , lovely and a cousin from Ireland’s brought some turf over too
Sbarcher
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Air Lingus must have fantastic checked in baggage allowances!
When you say that do you mean in your house that you are getting their fumes?/"Maybe read up on your journey towards illness if you buy one? Trendy, money saving, bad for your health.
Not a fan of these in towns although I totally understand why people may choose them at the moment. My neighbour has one and it is like I’m living in the 60’s with all of the fumes coming off their chimney.
Major health warning to anyone with a wood burning stove in home
Wood burning stoves produce 750 times more tiny particle pollution than a modern HGV truck
itsabuzzard
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You can't beat the smell of a peat fire.
Sky_Blue_Daz
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They come over on air fungus
Major Tom
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Speak to the guys at the heating centre just up from the arches Spon End in Earldson. They've been doing it for years and will offer good advice. Im not on commission btw.
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Flying Fokker
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Didn’t expect to be answering a 2023 post! Yep it’s looking bad for those who use them indoors.
Sky_Blue_Daz
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That’s where we got ours fromSpeak to the guys at the heating centre just up from the arches Spon End in Earldson. They've been doing it for years and will offer good advice. Im not on commission btw.
Fireplace Showroom | The Heating Centre | Coventry
At The Heating Centre, in Coventry, we have an extensive fireplace showroom with over 200 fires, stoves, and fireplaces, and nearly 50 years of experience.
Kneeza
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We had a couple at our last place (actually multi-fuel). It was off-grid, gas-wise, and a big place so hard and very expensive to heat with the bottled gas fed central heating. We basically fired them up in November-ish and kept them in until April-ish, banking them up with smokeless coal overnight, and left all the internal doors open. They kept the whole place nicely warm - to the point that we were sometimes opening loads of windows as it was too warm!
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