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We have recently moved from an older house into a modern one. The house is a lot warmer etc but the older house had a wood burner and i really miss it.
Our new house has a conservatory which is a complete waste of space as this time of year it is far to cold to use and sit in.
You can see where this is going...
Is it possible to have a small wood burner in the conservatory. How does the flue go through the plastic roof etc. Has anyone done this and how did they get on etc? Any advice appreciated.
Our new house has a conservatory which is a complete waste of space as this time of year it is far to cold to use and sit in.
You can see where this is going...
Is it possible to have a small wood burner in the conservatory. How does the flue go through the plastic roof etc. Has anyone done this and how did they get on etc? Any advice appreciated.
Many years ago I lived next door ( ie I could see this house fromone aspect my lounge) to a house that had a huge conservatory into which they put a large woodburner.
One plastic roof panel was removed and replaced with metal sheet through which a large stainless steel flue extended up to above first floor eaves level, ie about 20/24 ft.
It looked like the air vent from a chinese or other chippy.
Not too happy with that, I had the local building control/ council guy round who sympathised with me but told me that there was nothing they could do as it had all been signed off by the specialist woodburning stove installer.
Luckily for me I had some large bushes, conifers and trees that were in front of the conservatory but on my garden so I simply let the buggars grow. After a couple of years the view of the monstrocity was blocked as was most of the light into that side of the conservatory.
We moved a few years later. The new owners cut down most of the trees in the garden, including a huge lovely oak, but strangely left the somewhat exuberant growth near the conservatory alone.
Karma's a b
h .
Cheers,
Tony
One plastic roof panel was removed and replaced with metal sheet through which a large stainless steel flue extended up to above first floor eaves level, ie about 20/24 ft.
It looked like the air vent from a chinese or other chippy.
Not too happy with that, I had the local building control/ council guy round who sympathised with me but told me that there was nothing they could do as it had all been signed off by the specialist woodburning stove installer.
Luckily for me I had some large bushes, conifers and trees that were in front of the conservatory but on my garden so I simply let the buggars grow. After a couple of years the view of the monstrocity was blocked as was most of the light into that side of the conservatory.
We moved a few years later. The new owners cut down most of the trees in the garden, including a huge lovely oak, but strangely left the somewhat exuberant growth near the conservatory alone.
Karma's a b
h .Cheers,
Tony
I think the way you'd do it is convert the flue to twin-wall a foot or so below the roof then take that out through a small (maybe 18 inches across) metal panel to protect the plastic from the heat. You might be able to use something like pyrex instead of metal for the panel if you want to avoid a metal panel.
I suspect the bigger problem will be outside; I think the flue would have to run to higher than the eves of the house, both to make it draw properly and to avoid the risk of carbon monoxide blowing back into the windows of the house. If it's a single story conservatory and a two story house, that's going to be a very tall metal pipe sticking up into the air which won't look pretty.
Another option would be to put the flue on the wall of the house and build a brick (or whatever the house is made of ) chimney up to above eves level. It'd look better but I suspect it would be prohibitively expensive.
I suspect the bigger problem will be outside; I think the flue would have to run to higher than the eves of the house, both to make it draw properly and to avoid the risk of carbon monoxide blowing back into the windows of the house. If it's a single story conservatory and a two story house, that's going to be a very tall metal pipe sticking up into the air which won't look pretty.
Another option would be to put the flue on the wall of the house and build a brick (or whatever the house is made of ) chimney up to above eves level. It'd look better but I suspect it would be prohibitively expensive.
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