Multi-Fuel/Log burners

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

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We are thinking of swapping out a gas fire for a multi-fuel / log burner and just wondered if anyone has any experiences or recommendations.

We've been quote £700 for a fire and fitting. Seems like a reasonable price to me.
 
seems a bit too cheap imo - what kw rating is the stove?

the only thing i would say is to make sure the supply of wood you have is cheap and plentiful, lots of people have jumped on the multi bandwagon recently and wood prices have shot up due to demand, however if you can get good cheap wood they're as good as anything!
 
£700? Depends what they're offering. Our stove cost £200 with flue, and we fitted it ourselves.

I'd highly recommend it though, much more efficient and cheap way to heat your house. Put ours in yesterday, and after 2 hours burning it was warming 2 rooms :).
 
My stove cost £1100, it's a Jotul F3. You get what you pay for with wood burners. Theres a lot of chinese **** out there so be careful, Jotul or clearview are the best brands to go for.

Is your chimney already lined?
 
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we have two, garage and front room. Wee one for garage, about £200, a big one for flounge,£770 plus fitting, kicks out heat, 14BTU's, we never have the gas central heating on. Choose one that can have the back boiler fitted, thats next on our ToDo list.
mrs herbs
 
BENJAMIN HERBLE said:
we have two, garage and front room. Wee one for garage, about £200, a big one for flounge,£770 plus fitting, kicks out heat, 14BTU's, we never have the gas central heating on. Choose one that can have the back boiler fitted, thats next on our ToDo list.
mrs herbs
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+1. Only really worth the hassle if you have a back boiler, as that will reduce your costs massively.

Neighbour has two of them. One in the front room, and one in the kitchen. He never has his heating on, and even with one going his house is never cold even though the stable style door is always open *wack*.

(Make sure you get a concrete lintel if you are putting a wooden mantel piece in, last thing you want is to catch fire to the the wood from behind.)

recommend you use wood in the daytime, and just turn it right down and use coal overnight to keep it going, unless you feel like restarting it every morning. They can be a hassle but I gather you just get used to topping it up. Defo not recommended if you are out a lot though I would say.

Do you live by a wood, or can get a lot of waste wood? Invest in a axe :-) Buying the pre cut wood will cost you a fortune.
 
We had one with our last property. Fantastic if you can get free wood from somewhere.
Ours was a Villager Bayswater 8kw and cost us £550 at the time with £300 fitting (inc soot door and parts).
Highly recommend but not the cleanest product i've used. As we had small children it was sometimes a chore chopping and storing wood & coal.
 
recommend you use wood in the daytime, and just turn it right down and use coal overnight to keep it going, unless you feel like restarting it every morning. They can be a hassle but I gather you just get used to topping it up. Defo not recommended if you are out a lot though I would say.
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I don't, burning wood and coal produces a sulphuric acid solution which will eat through your expensive chimney liner in no time.

Also a decent burner will easily burn all night. Mine burns from 10pm - 7am with plenty of life left to just throw some more logs on and sit down and relax.

My advice look at review sites before buying a stove. There was one i used with 5 star ratings for different areas of the stove and also had user reviews. Will post it up if i can remember the name of it.
 
We have one. Can't remember the exact details or how much KW is pushes out, but it's an awesome thing. Cost around 2k to buy and install and we couldn't have been more pleased. Our gas bills is non-existant, central heating on all the time. I tell you, it's weird having heat 24/7 and not ever taking cost into consideration.
 
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There is a fair bit of it around here too. Annoyingly had a load of wood stolen from us but we've still got a good amount, and as we're away for 4 weeks in January we will probably have plenty left.
 
We have one, they are great and if you have space to store the wood just start stock pilling. Ask around. Farmers are a great sorce. We must have about 5 years supply now.

oh and get a good chainsaw and axe etc
 
I live in a tenement and I have a fireplace but the hole in my lounge has been boarded up with a bit of marble effect plastic. As far as I know, there is a hole behind it where the fire would go. Does anyone know who I'd contact to find out if I could have a coal fire, I'm unsure if the chimney is still in operation. I guess a chimney sweep man would be the best but how much does it cost to get it surveyed?
 
Ahleckz said:
I live in a tenement and I have a fireplace but the hole in my lounge has been boarded up with a bit of marble effect plastic. As far as I know, there is a hole behind it where the fire would go. Does anyone know who I'd contact to find out if I could have a coal fire, I'm unsure if the chimney is still in operation.
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best person to contact would be your landlord, who ought to know, and if he doesn't know, he should know someone who does.
 
the_r_sole said:
seems a bit too cheap imo - what kw rating is the stove?

the only thing i would say is to make sure the supply of wood you have is cheap and plentiful, lots of people have jumped on the multi bandwagon recently and wood prices have shot up due to demand, however if you can get good cheap wood they're as good as anything!
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wood is plentyfull and the one we have looked at is an Acorn 5 (5kW)
 
platypus said:
How big a room are you looking to heat? 5kW won't put out that much heat.
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5 KW will put out a massive amount of heat. It obviously depends on room size, but the recommended size for my livingroom 12' x 12' x 9' is 2.75 KW
 
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