My Log Burner...

wilber said:
pyromaniac's wanting to watch things burn.
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Should have gone for open fires then!

I've never had a stove in a house I own but when I've used them in holiday rentals I've never been bothered about seeing the flames but then as above I have a fully open fire at home to indulge my pyro tendencies!
 
brilliant - thanks, confirms my suspicion that the two bits of glass are the same size and separated by the white 'seal' then held on by the metal bars at the side :)
 
Skiddley said:
My Vision 500 (before I furnished!)

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I've got the Pioneer 400 coming on Monday.

What material did you use to line your fireplace and what gap have you left at the back of the stove?
 
Had a log store full of pallet wood, about the size of 3 pallets (funny as it was made from pallets)

Its now just over half full..... Pallet wood burns like petrol :)
 
Since first lighting up the WBS mid October I've gone through around 40 pallets ie about one a day-ish. It's a big detached house, 7 beds .
Just starting on logs now we're into December, I had three transit tipper loads of mostly Ash delivered in August-September at £150 a 2.5 cu/mtr load. This'll see us through to the end of the burning season now.
I could count on one hand the number of times I had to light the LPG gas boiler last winter, the wood burner spreads enough heat around that the CH is rarely required.
 
What kind of clearance have people got at the back of their stoves. I'm going to struggle to get more than 30mm from the concrete board with my Clearview Puoneer 400.
 
Prophet said:
I've got the Pioneer 400 coming on Monday.

What material did you use to line your fireplace and what gap have you left at the back of the stove?
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It's backed with cement board (Hardibacker, or equivalent).

There is only a requirement for distance to combustibles, so I've left a small gap at the rear (few cm). I say "I", i mean the HETAS fitter. Our breast is quite shallow, so was a must really.

Lining gets hot, but never had any issues.
 
Same for mine, we don't have much gap all round ours but as mentioned this wasn't an issue for the hetas certificate. The crucial one is obviously the distance to combustibles such as the mantle :)
 
a1ex2001 said:
Why is everyone so bothered about the glass being clear?
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The engineer in me also wonders whether you may be getting heat radiated back into the stove by the soot so would be losing some directional radiant heat.

We have 2 stoves a purely wood stove where the glass stays mostly clean and cleans itself in prolonged use and a multifuel stove that routinely gets dirty. The different routes for air flow is the main difference. For a wood only stove if you have the combustion right they generally stay clean if it doesn't your combustion may be poor so you're probably losing heat and fuel up the stack.

Solid fuel wants more air from underneath and keeping the glass clean is trickier and it's less likely to self clean as you don't get the same wash of hot ait to burn any soot off.

And it looks nice :-D
 
Skiddley said:
Moreso? Looks nice.

Is the armchair at the back the naughty chair? :D
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Westfire Uniq 15 5kW

Cost me £3,150 for the burner and the installation.

I pay £269.00 for 2.0m crate of Kiln dried ash-logs which lasts me around 6months at a time. Warms the whole house up...i just keep all the doors open to let the heat circulate through.

Massive saving on gas/electric bill. In the last 7 months I've paid £187.00 in gas/electric.

Thats my reading and getting cozy chair :)
 
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