inside my stove - is this normal??

[serialsix]

Hi all
New to this but here I go. I purchased a aarow Stratford eb20 during the summer and have had it on approx 10 times. Initially I burnt normal shop bought logs but soon moved on to coal and dry seasoned logs. However I am slightly concerned about the inside of the stove now - see pics. Don't have a problem with tar but get about a few mm's of soot around the inside. But you'll see the main issue is what seems to be the deterioration of the stove walls. Is this normal? I would say there are a few inches to go before I will have worn through the stove wall but it concerns me that the walls appear damaged after such a short time. Therefore any help you can give would be great.

Thanks

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• serialsix
• 3 Nov 2013
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• serialsix
• 3 Nov 2013
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[Burnerman]

Its normal for the fireboard cheeks to crack pretty quickly on most wood burners.....yours looks a bit premature though!
At the end of the day it doesn't do too much harm - apart from the stove metalwork will get very hot and its a waste of energy (some stoves have no fireboard inside).
Is this a mutifuel stove you have?
John

 

[serialsix]

Hi burnerman. Yeah it's multi-fuel about 73% efficiency. Do u think it has anything to do with overfiring - it's not glowing red, like I've read on other forums - but I am keen to prevent any further damage, if I am damaging it.

 

[Burnerman]

I've yet to see any multifuel stove glowing red, mate - but what would help you is a stove pipe thermometer that tells you how hot its burning.
These things (by Stovax for example) stick magnetically to the flue pipe, and you need to keep the temperature higher than 200 deg C and lower than 400 deg C for efficiency.
If its a genuine multifuel stove you'll not damage it - it will have fire bars to help burn coal, by design.
John