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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:07 pm
by dig dug dan
ANy one on here had any experience with fitting a wood stove in a conservatory?
I want to install one in mine, mainly as its the hardest room to heat, is the only place i can put it, and i have free wood all the time:)
however, i am getting conflicting reports about installing it.
I tried to get quotes, only one guy responded, and he then failed to send a quote despite repeated attempts to contact him
I visited the stove place, and they have given me a list of everything i need to do it myself. Just need some scaffolding priced up, then i am there.
However i went to a different stove place today who said i cannot do it myself as it has to be signed off by the council.
thing is, my mate installed his himself, and the council came at the end and signed it off no problem!
I was even told if a neighbour complains about the smoke, they can make me remove it!! (but its fine for a neighbour to have a bonfire and burn tyres!)
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:58 pm
by msh paving
I did footing for a conservatory last year he was having wood burner, the only thing i know of, is has to be fixed to a brick wall brick work top to bottom MSH 
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:05 pm
by dig dug dan
msh paving wrote:I did footing for a conservatory last year he was having wood burner, the only thing i know of, is has to be fixed to a brick wall brick work top to bottom MSH
thats good as its going to be fixed to the back wall of the house!
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:05 pm
by digerjones
You have to be heatas registered. You can put it in yourself but needs to be signed off by a heatas registered person
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 4:58 pm
by lemoncurd1702
Dan.
These guys are really busy this time of the year and wood burning stoves are rocketing in popularity, try them in the spring/summer when it's quiet for them.
It most definitely needs to be installed or signed off by a HETAS registered installer just like Gas Safe for a boiler. If it's fitted by a HETAS installer and he follows the regulations then you can tell your neighbour where to go. They are unlikely to get smoke billowing in through their windows anyway, just the occasional pleasant waft of a log fire burning.
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 10:53 am
by lutonlagerlout
I will PM you my mates number Dan who install s these for a living
they are HETAS registered and I believe from what you have described you need a twinwall flue system
actually here is his site
http://www.insideoutfires.co.uk/
tell him tony AKA cracker sent you
it isnt cheap ,so deep breaths
might be cheaper to install underfloor heating
cheers LLL
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:17 pm
by dig dug dan
Thanks tony. Had a price for stove and all pipework inc twinwall, at just under 3k. Thats supplied for me to do. If it wasnt for free wood, it wouldnt be worth doing. Underfloor heating is a good idea, but would have to dig up an expensive tiled floor.
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 6:45 pm
by Kuts
I got a quote in the summer £2,300 + stove, shes seen a nice one for "only" £1,400!
:rock:
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 7:02 pm
by dig dug dan
the stove i have seen is £1100, will take a 500mm log. its designed to overnight burn, so it never needs to go out!
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 2:12 am
by lutonlagerlout
underfloor heating is the way forwards
log burners as nice as they are can be messy
cheers LLL
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:27 pm
by digerjones
Think mine was about £1100.
And when me fire goes out me underfloor heating comes on 
Lots of grants for bio boilers at most.
On a large house 22k investment 7k back each year for 7 years. Wood pellets are 20%--30% cheaper than oil at mo.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 8:14 pm
by dig dug dan
thats a nice little stove! do you burn old fence posts etc on it, or just logs?
The company who originally said i cannot install the burner myself have today backtracked when i asked if they would install a stove not supplied by them, they said no, but would be happy to come out and sign it off at the end!
looks like i will do it myself in the end. pictures will follow!
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 8:38 pm
by digerjones
We burn anything. Ours is a clear view, I think the rolls Royce of stoves.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 9:20 pm
by dig dug dan
thats interesting.
Mum has a small woodstove that my late dad put in, and i supply the fuel. its all my old fence posts cut into 6" lengths, which are burnt all winter long.
one fire stove "expert" told me not to do this as the chemicals in the timber "eat" the chimney!
I will be burning anything wood, as long as its seasoned. a 20 year old fence post will be as seasoned as you can get!!
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 9:50 pm
by digerjones
The expert is wright, they all say that.
I burn about 30% fence post/treated timber, the rest logs.
You need your log store full at easter, it will be seasoned enough by winter.