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[DOD]Asprilla

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My living room has a gas fire in it at the moment and it's worse than useless. It sits in the original fireplace and vents via the chimney.

I really want to replace it with a log or multi-fuel burner and I'm going to be getting a few folks to come round and give me quotes for decommissioning and removing the existing gas fire and installing the log burner.

Unfortunately I know next to nothing about them other than that I like them so can anyone give men any pointers on:

- Selecting a burner
- Things I should specify for the installation
- Anything else I should know

Cheers.
 
maccapacca said:
There's a log burner about that you can replace a radiator or plumb direct to your heating system via the radiator circuit and use the controls on the burner to pump hot water around your heating system without using any of your heating mechanics.

Trying to find it now.

Looked really interesting.
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This what you were thinking of: http://www.fhtstoves.com/index.html ?
 
Resurrection time....

I'm looking at a Contura 51l but another option is a Merlin stove. Merlins are UK designed but Chinese made but apparently they are attempting to move production back to the UK.

Anyone got any experience of them?
 
brightside229 said:
Dont bother with cheap chinese stoves, you will struggle for spares, different flue sizes etc its a nightmare i sell stove spares, stick with charnwood, morso, stovax clearview, hunter, aga etc and you cant go wrong, personally i would go for a morso squirrel very nice stove comes in a range of outputs and spares are readily available, and as long as you run them correctly they go on for ever, not to mention the great support from morso.

Hunter often have problems during winter with spares especially firebars for the herald 8-14 they have ran out and been huuge shortages in stock from them for years now and they still have not sorted it out, also trying to get support from hunter is a nightmare very short staffed!

Also your buying a stove now at the wrong time of year, we are very very busy and getting a nice discount on the stoves/install is very hard as their is no need to discount much come summer and sellers are basically giving them away at cost price
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Cheers for that. As I said the Merlin is a GB design and someone has mentioned that they may have moved manufacture back to the UK already. The Midline that was recommended retails at about £1k. For £100 more I can get the Contura which to me looks a lot better.

Agree about buying at the wrong time, but it is what it is. Waiting six months is going to disrupt our whole schedule for the house, we wanted to get it done earlier in the summer but we just couldn't get any weekends to sort it out.

I'm looking for something reasonably contemporary and most of the units out there do nothing for me.
 
TBH I'm not a massive fan of the Merlin, but its the least ugliest of the alternatives to the Contura. I think I'm just trying to see if there is another reason I can discount it other than the cosmetic.
 
OK, settled on the Contura, but now I'm looking at option for the fireplace chamber. We've looked at leaving the current brick, rendering or having a steel box put in.

I'm quite a fan of the steel box look but I can't work out of there are any pros or cons in terms of the heat dissipation.
 
It's going in an existing chimney breast but current gas fire, mantel and hearth will be going and the opening will be knocked out wider to accommodate a 54" mantel. I don't have any pictures of the internal brickwork as the current gas fire is still in situ.

The steel would essentially be a cover for the brickwork so would only be very marginally smaller than the bare brick cavity. Essentially an alternative to rendering the brick or similar.
 
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Back from the dead with an update.

Finally found a fire place we liked, but they couldn't supply the burner we wanted, so we are doing this in three parts - fire place installation, stove delivery and separate installation. The installer we've selected looks like he's going to let us down unfortunately, but I'll find out this afternoon.

Also, my brother in law has given me a couple of tonnes of wood, but it all needs cutting up and despite several requests my mate is yet to bring my chainsaw back with a new chain on it.

Anyway, fire place installer turned up on Thursday morning and announced it was going to longer than a one day job. Fair play to him, he did 9-5 on Thursday and the arrived at 4 on Friday and didn't leave until 10pm. He could have rushed his way through but he didn't and I'm glad about this.

From this:


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to this:
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Very happy with it. Will be even happier when there is a stove in there.
 
It's rough(ish), not marble smooth.

I've been told that it should be easier to clean (and more resilient to dirt) than the light / white Portuguese limestone ones you see. Not too bothered about that, but we'll see,
 
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