Post by stu on Nov 16, 2012 18:05:09 GMT -5
I will add more photographs, but here is poor quality shot of a contemporary stove we had installed by The Stove Yard in February 2012. We bought it ex-display and at very substantial discount. It's a 6.2 kW room heater correctly sized for the volume of our room. A Danish stove, made from recycled cast iron to the Nordic Swan Eco standard, it has a double skinned body, heating air by both radiation and convection. I liked this as it means some parts of the stove remain cooler to the touch reducing the risk of injury to my children.
This design works well in a modern house - the very curved glass allows a good view into the fire from all around the room. We thought long and hard about where to put it in terms of several factors foremost amongst these being supporting the external section of the 6m+ stainless steel twinwall flue which needed to rise to a sufficient height in relation to the roof plane of the two storey section of our house which is behind the stove.
The Stove Yard ultimately did a fantastic job for us but I'll post again giving a picture of the flue and an account of some teething problems we had getting the flue right. The draught control is relatively poor but this seems related to DEFRA requirements and to the efficient nature of the stove (80%). I control the output more by fire and fuel size than with the draught control although I might modify the draught control in the future. The very small volumes of ash testify to the stoves good efficiency when the fire is well managed.
I do have to keep the initial fire small for a few minutes when the weather is really cold (in certain conditions) just until the external s/s flue is warmed sufficiently and working. Otherwise I can get smoking as flue is reversed (cold air falling). We had a more severe problem with that before due to low flue height and a badly designed anti-downdraught hat which blocked. Stoveyard went on to remove this flue component from other installations they had done. They used SFL Omega Plus flue which has a structural joint when a wider band is fitted to connect lengths (SFL claim it can rise max 3m unsupported by bracketing!)
To date all timber burnt has been fallen wood we gathered locally, thinnings from NT woodland, or scrap wood scavenged from a joinery shop,building sites and other local businesses generating timber waste free of paints, glues or treatments. Pallets can be a pain to break up but make good kindling.
After a touch of tennis elbow from sawing I'm inclined to use power tools more rather than wear out my arm cutting firewood, but it's true you chop wood to "warm yourself twice".
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This design works well in a modern house - the very curved glass allows a good view into the fire from all around the room. We thought long and hard about where to put it in terms of several factors foremost amongst these being supporting the external section of the 6m+ stainless steel twinwall flue which needed to rise to a sufficient height in relation to the roof plane of the two storey section of our house which is behind the stove.
The Stove Yard ultimately did a fantastic job for us but I'll post again giving a picture of the flue and an account of some teething problems we had getting the flue right. The draught control is relatively poor but this seems related to DEFRA requirements and to the efficient nature of the stove (80%). I control the output more by fire and fuel size than with the draught control although I might modify the draught control in the future. The very small volumes of ash testify to the stoves good efficiency when the fire is well managed.
I do have to keep the initial fire small for a few minutes when the weather is really cold (in certain conditions) just until the external s/s flue is warmed sufficiently and working. Otherwise I can get smoking as flue is reversed (cold air falling). We had a more severe problem with that before due to low flue height and a badly designed anti-downdraught hat which blocked. Stoveyard went on to remove this flue component from other installations they had done. They used SFL Omega Plus flue which has a structural joint when a wider band is fitted to connect lengths (SFL claim it can rise max 3m unsupported by bracketing!)
To date all timber burnt has been fallen wood we gathered locally, thinnings from NT woodland, or scrap wood scavenged from a joinery shop,building sites and other local businesses generating timber waste free of paints, glues or treatments. Pallets can be a pain to break up but make good kindling.
After a touch of tennis elbow from sawing I'm inclined to use power tools more rather than wear out my arm cutting firewood, but it's true you chop wood to "warm yourself twice".
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