Rope seal on wood burner door

peter212693 · 3 Feb 2016 at 23:23

Hi all,

The rope seal on the door of my wood burner has started to fail so need to replace it. Question is what size rope do I get?

The groove is 12mm wide and the old rope seems to be 12mm too so first thoughts is.... a 12mm rope. On second thoughts though do I buy a soft 14mm rope so it fills the grove and maybe seals better?

Can anyone advise if there is a general rule of thumb with these things or not?

Cheers!

snips86x · 3 Feb 2016 at 23:25

I'm not sure that 12/14mm is going to have that much of a benefit between them. I would personally stick to the size already fitted...

bitslice · 3 Feb 2016 at 23:30

There isn't going to be much difference between 12 and 14mm, you are still going to have min 6mm above the groove.

peter212693 · 3 Feb 2016 at 23:31

snips86x said:
I'm not sure that 12/14mm is going to have that much of a benefit between them. I would personally stick to the size already fitted...

Thanks, I thought along the same lines. Although when we moved into our new place in November it was part of the deal the burner was left. Its about 2 years old and probably the original seal. Another thought for the slightly higher thickness was do they shrink over time?

Felix · 4 Feb 2016 at 09:09

You may find 14mm will initially be a struggle when you close the doors but it eventually eases up.

nutcase · 4 Feb 2016 at 14:03

How old is your woodburner? Rope seals used to be made of asbestos (for all I know yours is a couple of years old though)

peter212693 · 4 Feb 2016 at 15:47

Yea mines only about 2 years old now.

ron3003 · 4 Feb 2016 at 19:10

I presume you've searched the model of your woodburner on ebay with the suffix 'fire rope'?

peter212693 · 7 Feb 2016 at 00:26

Yea I did but found nothing.

I bought a 14mm rope today and what a waste of time that was. Fitted it this afternoon and it git really well into the groove but doesn't seem to have sealed the door. With the paper test the paper is barley held.

May be a 16mm rope? The hinge side seems to be worse which is whats making me thing its not the right size rope and I can adjust the handle making it tighter at the handle end but no difference to the hinge end.