woodburner

Morning all, Looking for some advice on some fireplace work. I'm removing a gas fire and putting a work burner in. Looks like there are two lintels, a main one and a secondary lintel perhaps put in to close the gap for the gas fire. Was this common practise? Any issues in removing the...

Hi all, The handle on the Woodwarm woodburner door has become very stiff - it's the handle and catch itself - it's stiff whether it's open or closed, so it's not a problem with the door or seal. Ordinarily I'd clean and lubricate something like this with WD40, but I'm thinking that may be a...

Hi all, One of our woodburners has become much less efficient since we had the chimney lined. (irritating as it had worked really well before we took the advice of the sweep and had it lined) Because of fears of timber and pipes in the chimney, it has 2 lengths of double lined flue running...

As the title- i want to fit this temperature gauge to the flow from the woodburner to the thermal store. I don't really need to but I've got it and I like gauges (there'll be a pressure gauge going next to it for very similar reasons). Plan A was to tee off the 28mm with a bit of 15 going up...

Hi - woodburner - stainless pipe through roof via lead flashing - has storm collar - ok for several years now (after some external sealing with grey lead sealant) though now leaking a bit in intense rain between the double wall pipe and the lead tube. (suspect through rain bouncing off roof...

Hi there. Looking for some advice, I've opened up a builders opening to it's original 1911 spec, due to the many different fireplaces over the years, the lintels installed by gas fitters have chewed up some of the column bricks, left side being the worst. I've done a a fair bit myself...

Posting this here as there doesn't seem to be a category for stoves and chimneys. We have a Charnwood Country 4 woodburner connected to a flexible liner, installed by a HETAS chap a few years back. Always worked perfectly. Until recently, when we noticed that it's not drawing like it used to...

I'm about to have a very small woodburner installed in a very large fireplace. We'd like to raise the height of the hearth inside the fireplace, to put the woodburner on, and leave the existing lower level slate hearth in place in front of it. This would mean that the hearth would step down...

....so we found another fireplace this morning, which we now plan to open up and have a woodburner installed. I'm concerned because that brick arch seems very flat, and also there's very little wall on the right hand side to stop it pushing outwards once we've taken the bricking up out of the...

I'm thinking of having the fireplace raised to accomodate a stove. Its currently only 600mm high which is limiting my choice of stove a bit. Looking up the chimney there's a ?concrete lintel which has a big crack in it but a course of vertical bricks just above with what I think is a metal bar...

I live in a relatively new house, circa 1990, and wish to install a wood burning stove into the lounge. As the house does not have a chimney a double lined aluminium chimney needs to go out then up the external wall at the side of the house (above my land). I've spent ages googling and...

I know it's a topic frequently discussed on here, but I thought I'd share my experience of installing a woodburning stove from start to finish. When I started this, I had good knowledge of some of the steps, but the project as a whole was daunting. Nonetheless, I got to it. It all started when...

I've got a log burner, burns well with decent seasoned timber (pine, ash, etc.). I was wondering what people think to using smokeless coal on them? Okay yes, my stove was sold as a wood burner, but it does have a large ash pan, shaker grate and bottom air supply. I would never use it to burn...

My local building control are happy for me to install my own woodburning stove, and they'll sign it off within their fee - provided it meets regs. So, I've designed it, but will it pass? Here's my design, any thoughts, constructive criticism or total freakouts from knowledgable DIY'ers or pros...

I'm putting in another wood burner in (this time in the kitchen) and have a question regarding the stove flue pipe. I only have a very shallow depth up the chimney flue (9 1/2") for the stove flue to go into. Structurally, would there be problems if the cast iron flue from the stove was say 2"...

I'm prepping the fireplace in our front room for a new log burning stove. All of the brickwork/mortar is sound but I want to cover in 12mm concrete board (HardieBacker), as this is what I've been advised to do by the local authorities. First of all, is this gap necessary? No problem at all if...

Hiya, What would be best? I've opened the fireplace and removed the hearth as to replace with the new one. I want to install a vermiculite board (brick effects) on the inner wall of the fireplace and also the new hearth. So which should i start first? The inner wall or hearth