Can't beat a real log fire

[Lisa21]

My stove

I love it and it keeps the whole house warm.
But iv just opened the door to put some more wood on and forgot to open the top vent....cue lounge full of smoke, cough splutter

 

[snorri]

One thing I have never missed since leaving my parents home to get a place of my own was the open fire.

 

[Chromatic]

I spent some time looking today. Class one 316 flexible stainless liner will do it apparently, and, as you say a clean burn multi fuel stove. Might be on after all!

A flexible liner is only suitable if you have an existing flue. If not you will need a twin wall, insulated, rigid system, something like Schiedel Rite Vent ICS, but there are equivalent systems from other manufacturers available. Take a look at this, http://www.rite-vent.co.uk/ there is a pdf guide to choosing a flue to download there too. Apologies if you've already looked in to this as your reply indicated, but your original post implied you did not have a flue.

 

[Chromatic]

I spent some time looking today. Class one 316 flexible stainless liner will do it apparently, and, as you say a clean burn multi fuel stove. Might be on after all!

A flexible liner is only suitable if you have an existing flue. If not you will need a twin wall, insulated, rigid system, something like Schiedel Rite Vent ICS, but there are equivalent systems from other manufacturers available. Take a look at this, http://www.rite-vent.co.uk/ there is a pdf guide to choosing a flue to download there too. Apologies if you've already looked in to this as your reply indicated, but your original post implied you did not have a flue.

 

[Globalti]

If you buy a decent twin-wall flue you can have the stove anywhere in the house, if you're prepared to make the effort to punch the hole right up through the ceilings and floors and roof. Otherwise a class 1 flue is okay or a brick flue lined with a stainless liner. Unfortunately these are expensive at around £50 a metre.

 

[Globalti]

If you buy a decent twin-wall flue you can have the stove anywhere in the house, if you're prepared to make the effort to punch the hole right up through the ceilings and floors and roof. Otherwise a class 1 flue is okay or a brick flue lined with a stainless liner. Unfortunately these are expensive at around £50 a metre.

 

[cathald]

Dont know how you guys can do with out a fire,Oil heating just dont have the same heat
I have an open fire in the living room and a great big stanley solid fuel range in the kitchen which I burn turf,logs and coal.
I cut turf once a year and €150 of the turf cutting machine's time will do me all year,Ok there is about a weeks work at the turf to get it ready and then home.
Hard to beat the heat from an open fire

Cathal

 

[cathald]

Dont know how you guys can do with out a fire,Oil heating just dont have the same heat
I have an open fire in the living room and a great big stanley solid fuel range in the kitchen which I burn turf,logs and coal.
I cut turf once a year and €150 of the turf cutting machine's time will do me all year,Ok there is about a weeks work at the turf to get it ready and then home.
Hard to beat the heat from an open fire

Cathal

 

[Chromatic]

If you buy a decent twin-wall flue you can have the stove anywhere in the house, if you're prepared to make the effort to punch the hole right up through the ceilings and floors and roof. Otherwise a class 1 flue is okay or a brick flue lined with a stainless liner. Unfortunately these are expensive at around £50 a metre.

Yes. I'd only add that if you are going to line an existing flue with a flexible liner and use it with a solid fuel/woodburning appliance then you'd need a twin wall flexible liner.

 

[Chromatic]

If you buy a decent twin-wall flue you can have the stove anywhere in the house, if you're prepared to make the effort to punch the hole right up through the ceilings and floors and roof. Otherwise a class 1 flue is okay or a brick flue lined with a stainless liner. Unfortunately these are expensive at around £50 a metre.

Yes. I'd only add that if you are going to line an existing flue with a flexible liner and use it with a solid fuel/woodburning appliance then you'd need a twin wall flexible liner.

 

[Globalti]

A real fire or a stove ventilates the house because it sucks huge volumes of air up the chimney. So you get a nice dry fresh warmth in the room, unlike the awful headachey steamy heat you get with a gas fire.

I found a place in deepest Lancashire (better not tell you where) where peat is being cut and there are several very substantial wooden huts with good brick chimneys and pots, all scattered around on the side of a very remote Pennine moor. Thinking they may be summer huts I made enquiries in the nearby village about buying some peat because we love the smell but I was completely stonewalled. So I found a website belonging to the village and joined and asked on there. Eventually someone PMd me and advised me to stop asking questions as "there are people with a lot to protect up there". It was then that I realised - the peat and the huts with chimneys are for illegal stills!

 

[Globalti]

A real fire or a stove ventilates the house because it sucks huge volumes of air up the chimney. So you get a nice dry fresh warmth in the room, unlike the awful headachey steamy heat you get with a gas fire.

I found a place in deepest Lancashire (better not tell you where) where peat is being cut and there are several very substantial wooden huts with good brick chimneys and pots, all scattered around on the side of a very remote Pennine moor. Thinking they may be summer huts I made enquiries in the nearby village about buying some peat because we love the smell but I was completely stonewalled. So I found a website belonging to the village and joined and asked on there. Eventually someone PMd me and advised me to stop asking questions as "there are people with a lot to protect up there". It was then that I realised - the peat and the huts with chimneys are for illegal stills!

 

[Chromatic]

Do they know where you live RR? If so lets hope they don't read cyclechat.

 

[Chromatic]

Do they know where you live RR? If so lets hope they don't read cyclechat.

 

[Old timer]

Dont know how you guys can do with out a fire,Oil heating just dont have the same heat
I have an open fire in the living room and a great big stanley solid fuel range in the kitchen which I burn turf,logs and coal.
I cut turf once a year and €150 of the turf cutting machine's time will do me all year,Ok there is about a weeks work at the turf to get it ready and then home.
Hard to beat the heat from an open fire

Cathal

Well! my oil fired boiler does a superb job of warming the house (large house with open fields all around) but of course the downside is the cost of the oil nowdays
We run the oil for a couple of hours in the morning and a few hours as it gets dark and the rest of the time we have some portable oil filled rads that do a stellar job and glad we are that a couple of years ago we opted for a fixed rate for 4 years

When that runs out we will have to decide whether to open up the fire place or (and I`ve heard good things about) electric central heating boiler. you just fit the boiler to a wall and connect your exisitng pipes to them. If you install some taps in line you can alternate between your old oil fired bolier and the new electric one.