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How often do you folk replace the firebricks and fire ropes of your stoves?

Our stove in the livingroom was installed in 2017 by the previous owner and the firebricks have shrunk to such a degree that I've decided to replace them as well as the fire rope seal on the door.
 
Bricks in my old Godin had been recently replaced when I inherited it.

I’ve replaced the door rope twice as I used slightly undersized rope the first time.

Pretty easy to tell if the ropes need replacing as you should feel the rope compress as the door the door fully closed. If you don’t or the door clangs, you need to change the rope. The other good tell is if you shut all the air intakes and you can still see/hear the fire drawing air near the door.
 
Mysterae_ said:
How often do you folk replace the firebricks and fire ropes of your stoves?

Our stove in the livingroom was installed in 2017 by the previous owner and the firebricks have shrunk to such a degree that I've decided to replace them as well as the fire rope seal on the door.
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never had to yet
small stove been in at least 15 years :)
 
Terminal_Boy said:
Bricks in my old Godin had been recently replaced when I inherited it.

I’ve replaced the door rope twice as I used slightly undersized rope the first time.

Pretty easy to tell if the ropes need replacing as you should feel the rope compress as the door the door fully closed. If you don’t or the door clangs, you need to change the rope. The other good tell is if you shut all the air intakes and you can still see/hear the fire drawing air near the door.
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Some good tips there, thanks.

I had intended on buying some standard vermiculite fireboards and cutting and shaping myself but I didn't know the stove's original firebrick shapes and sizes. So I had to buy direct replacements from the only supplier that does them, £280 including the rope! I think I'll be templating them before I install them....
 
Mysterae_ said:
Some good tips there, thanks.

I had intended on buying some standard vermiculite fireboards and cutting and shaping myself but I didn't know the stove's original firebrick shapes and sizes. So I had to buy direct replacements from the only supplier that does them, £280 including the rope! I think I'll be templating them before I install them....
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Is it a big stove the bricks for my Heta Inspire are about £120 for the full set or can be bought individually.
 
Mysterae_ said:
How often do you folk replace the firebricks and fire ropes of your stoves?

Our stove in the livingroom was installed in 2017 by the previous owner and the firebricks have shrunk to such a degree that I've decided to replace them as well as the fire rope seal on the door.
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I had a crack in one of my fire bricks so replaced it, otherwise it was fine after 6 or so years.

It was a right faff buying them from Stovax though. They sent me 2 lots of what I ordered to start with. Sweet I thought, I'll keep them for future.
Eventually got round to installing it, and realised they'd sent ones for a different sized unit. Both boxes wrong.

Thankfully though they sent the right ones and paid for pickup of the wrong ones.
 
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robj20 said:
Is it a big stove the bricks for my Heta Inspire are about £120 for the full set or can be bought individually.
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I'd say it's just a typical modern type stove; it's 5kW and is almost a metre high but the firebox area is about half that. I wasn't expecting the replacement firebricks to cost that much.
 
Mysterae_ said:
I'd say it's just a typical modern type stove; it's 5kW and is almost a metre high but the firebox area is about half that. I wasn't expecting the replacement firebricks to cost that much.
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Never, repeat never walk into a Godin store and get a quote for genuine parts.

I think they saw Ferrari parts costs and went “Hold my baguette and watch zis!”

Got quoted €12 each for the clips that hold the door glass into the door. There are four of them. Luckily, I have a mate here who’s a metal worker and he made some from some 2mm stainless steel sheet he had knocking around.

Might be a rural France thing because 99% of folks have wood burners, but all the glaziers out here have stove glass in the common thicknesses which they’ll cut to size for way less than the manufacturer will charge.
 
Terminal_Boy said:
Never, repeat never walk into a Godin store and get a quote for genuine parts.

I think they saw Ferrari parts costs and went “Hold my baguette and watch zis!”

Got quoted €12 each for the clips that hold the door glass into the door. There are four of them. Luckily, I have a mate here who’s a metal worker and he made some from some 2mm stainless steel sheet he had knocking around.

Might be a rural France thing because 99% of folks have wood burners, but all the glaziers out here have stove glass in the common thicknesses which they’ll cut to size for way less than the manufacturer will charge.
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I'd hate to think what the stove glass would cost seeing as it's curved - must add a 50% premium!
 
Changed the fire ropes on the Woodburner doors this weekend. Should have done it years ago, they were slightly past their best, and actually hanging off last week :cry:



 
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Does anyone keep their main kindling stash outside?

We have the fire basket indoor which I refill but my main store has always been in the garage. I currently have 8 banana boxes full but quite like the idea of freeing up the space (they are stacked as two columns of 4 boxes). I have a log store down the side of the house which is pretty well sheltered but obviously not as a dry as an unheated garage.

I was thinking some of these B&Q crates would let the wood breath if it did get damp

 
ANDARIAL said:
Personally i keep a small bin of kindling by the side of the fire.i usually store kindling wood in the shed and split it a small bin at q time
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Same, but in some metal bucket that has “Kindling” painted on it the Mrs. got from of the many “decorative crap” stores.

I also keep any thin bits of wood generated during splitting as in an old plastic crate indoors.
 
Turned a pallette into kindling

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