STOVES questions and answers here(see mod note in post 1)

More modern gas fires have controlled venting on them. Changing you stove to gas will leave you with an inefficient heat source.

Using gas as a heat source is only possible where you are on mains gas. I would not know what option you have with larger gas heating options

Looking at you stove and the fire in it are you using a lot of coal. I imagine it's heating a large open plan area. Coal can tend to burn out stoves, in that the seals and gasket rope goes. Maybe replace your fire rope through out the stove.

If you wanted a cleaner option I would look into a wood pellet stove

Yes it is safe to light the stove. The water system for your heating is totally separate to your domestic water supply. It has a separate tank that is it reserve. This tank can o ly drain into your heating system.

Unless the water was off long-term ( weeks and months rather than days)it's not an issue

It's probably depends on the way the draft works to an extent. I would not overly worry about. My Eirn is 30 years old. No air wash system on it, just learn to ignore it.

Can I ask how you went about installing a new glass? Price and sourcing etc.

40 quid, thats country prices. Or you could invest in this and do yourself. https://www.screwfix.ie/p/bailey-19mm-blue-brass-jointed-drain-rod-set-9-14m/79897

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Inset stove pit in instead of an open fire about three months ago. A Boru Beag 5w. Looks like whatever they used to hold the stove into fireplace didn't take as it seems to be a little wobbly and I can see a 10mm gap at side with only a little hold Is this common? Potentially dangerous?

I had a Vitae inserted. Noticed the surrounding plasterboard is always hot. The installer returned and added more insulation on top of the stove exterior and put in a extra skirt to lift it way from the plasterboard. But plasterboard still heats up to the point I wonder if its a fire hazard? Should special fire resistant plasterboard be always installed in the surround?

Hi Guys, hoping someone can shed some light. I've a Vitae 8kw landscape woodburn stove. Local barstool expert says he has the same stove, and is using a multifuel kit from the cassette stove version In it without any problems. He said kit is slightly smaller than the landscape but he keeps the coal central to the grate area and no issues for over a year.

I'd contacted heat design to ask if there was a kit available but they said kit is only for the cassette that the landscape isn't made to use other fuels, so I guess I'm wondering is what Mr Barstool doing dangerous or are the cassette and landscape stoves made of same material ect but marketed as different styles and there actually is a way to safely burn coal in it with a kit?

Sounds like the "multifuel kit" was added to yours, it appears to be 2 side metal plates and a smaller back one and is what he's using. The kit is too small for the landscape and only for the "casette" shape, but he somehow has it in there.

I don't know what the grate/ashpan is like in the casette version to know if there's a difference there, so can't figure out if it's actual build and materials are totally different and that's why the landscape can't do multifuel, or if it's down to marketing and it it can with some modification aka mr barstool, but I'd rather edge on the side of caution before trying

Getting a stove installed and currently have no vent in the room. Two questions:

1) I have suspended floors, can I put a vent in the floor instead? (Have lifted the floors previously, timber bone dry so appears to be good ventilation)

2) In the UK if you have a stove of 5kw or less in a pre 2008 home, you don't need a vent. Why is that not the same here?

I've access to wood, hard wood, dried (not kiln dried). Thinking of getting a small stove for a snug type room. We'll insulated, has a vent. Room is 3.5m x 2.5m, 3m ceiling. Any ideas on what brand/where to shop? Not looking for an insert, ideally airwash.

I have an Oisin stove which sits into the fireplace and I am going to connect a flue liner to the rear of it. Hoping to backfill with vermuculite so I need to fill the gap between liner and bottom of clay chimney pot. I have some cermamic fibre blanket which I will wrap around the flue liner and push up to seal the gap. Did anyone do similar? I will have to push the stove back into fireplace slightly after I connect vitreous pipe. thanks

really stupid question , my wife has taken out the fire bricks to fit in larger logs in an Oisin stove , we are currently having a dissagrement over whether this is safe or not , I think the bricks are necessary and she does not , who is right ? ,

obviously I won't tell her if she is right but in all seriousness , are firebricks needed for the safe operation of a stove burning mostly hardwood logs ?

Removing them will kill the longevity of your stove according to my stove guy when I asked him.

I’ve just had a Henley Arklow stove installed and was wondering if anyone knew how to ensure the handle closes all the way down rather than hang out to the left if that makes sense, it’s closed tight but handle sticking out.

Apologies if this is a ridiculous question but Google didn’t help either!

The bricks act as an energy store and to keep the heat in the burning chamber. It means that when you introduce a new log into the fire, you're wholly dependent on the heat off the burning embers to ignite the new log as there isn't any reflected or stored heat off the bricks as it's already gone into the room. It's not more efficient, it's just more annoying.

Some stoves work like that, I recall using a woodburner Moreso which didn't have bricks, so it used to flare-up and emit heat over a 20 min period and then die-down rapidly. It was a pain really as it needed to be stoked and refueled frequently.