Show me your wood burner before and after pics

[Gooose]

Just fitted these two,

Pevex panorama cube





Nordpies uno 2

[LittleBigPlanet]

Shnozz said:

thebraketester said:

aberdeeneuan said:

After:

What make is that? Love the big glass front, looks ace.

+1 for the make please. Like that a lot.

+2

[aberdeeneuan]

Shnozz said:

thebraketester said:

aberdeeneuan said:

After:

What make is that? Love the big glass front, looks ace.

+1 for the make please. Like that a lot.

Cheers guys, it's a Parkray Aspect 5 compact. We liked the glass window a lot as well! The room isn't massive so we wanted something with a lot of glass that isn't too deep to manage the output.

[thebraketester]

Thanks

[LittleBigPlanet]

aberdeeneuan said:

Shnozz said:

thebraketester said:

aberdeeneuan said:

After:

What make is that? Love the big glass front, looks ace.

+1 for the make please. Like that a lot.

Cheers guys, it's a Parkray Aspect 5 compact. We liked the glass window a lot as well! The room isn't massive so we wanted something with a lot of glass that isn't too deep to manage the output.

Thanks!

(shamefully, now ordered and fitting booked for Jan)

[sunnygym]

LittleBigPlanet said:

aberdeeneuan said:

Shnozz said:

thebraketester said:

aberdeeneuan said:

After:

What make is that? Love the big glass front, looks ace.

+1 for the make please. Like that a lot.

Cheers guys, it's a Parkray Aspect 5 compact. We liked the glass window a lot as well! The room isn't massive so we wanted something with a lot of glass that isn't too deep to manage the output.

Thanks!

(shamefully, now ordered and fitting booked for Jan)

Great stuff, before and after pics mandatory! Ha

[aberdeeneuan]

sunnygym said:

LittleBigPlanet said:

aberdeeneuan said:

Shnozz said:

thebraketester said:

aberdeeneuan said:

After:

What make is that? Love the big glass front, looks ace.

+1 for the make please. Like that a lot.

Cheers guys, it's a Parkray Aspect 5 compact. We liked the glass window a lot as well! The room isn't massive so we wanted something with a lot of glass that isn't too deep to manage the output.

Thanks!

(shamefully, now ordered and fitting booked for Jan)

Great stuff, before and after pics mandatory! Ha

Haha, enjoy - ours has been on nightly this week. There is a definite knack to getting it lit but once you have it, it'll burn happily at tickover all night.

[LittleBigPlanet]

aberdeeneuan said:

Haha, enjoy - ours has been on nightly this week. There is a definite knack to getting it lit but once you have it, it'll burn happily at tickover all night.

Presumably this will kick out a decent amount of heat? Our house is as air tight as a paper bag so one of the reasons for getting the burner is to reduce heating costs (and leave it cooling down over night to take the chill off).

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

LittleBigPlanet said:

aberdeeneuan said:

Haha, enjoy - ours has been on nightly this week. There is a definite knack to getting it lit but once you have it, it'll burn happily at tickover all night.

Presumably this will kick out a decent amount of heat? Our house is as air tight as a paper bag so one of the reasons for getting the burner is to reduce heating costs (and leave it cooling down over night to take the chill off).

Presuming it's a multi burner, coal is your answer to that. At bedtime I put half a dozen pieces of coal on, and it's still warm in the morning. I often find some orange coal at 7 the next evening when re-lighting it!

[LittleBigPlanet]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

LittleBigPlanet said:

aberdeeneuan said:

Haha, enjoy - ours has been on nightly this week. There is a definite knack to getting it lit but once you have it, it'll burn happily at tickover all night.

Presumably this will kick out a decent amount of heat? Our house is as air tight as a paper bag so one of the reasons for getting the burner is to reduce heating costs (and leave it cooling down over night to take the chill off).

Presuming it's a multi burner, coal is your answer to that. At bedtime I put half a dozen pieces of coal on, and it's still warm in the morning. I often find some orange coal at 7 the next evening when re-lighting it!

The gentleman above (who has the burner will know better than I) but I have specified for a 'wood only' burner. Despite this, the versions online suggest that its multi-fuel.

We're buying this one: https://www.norwichwoodburners.co.uk/product/parkr...

[guindilias]

DonkeyApple said:

A ‘load’ around here is at least two crates worth of wood and £90/£100. The chap stacks it in the store for you. The local kiln dries service is about £300 and within a week has all the moisture of well seasoned normal firewood.

Kiln dried wood doesn't reach the low moisture content of normally seasoned wood.in a week.
Yes, the outside layer where you stick the tester will be - even try the ends, it'll show it as being nice and dry.
Ask him for a split, then test what you just revealed, the inside.
It will be nowhere near 18% or less assuming it was fresh cut and split I could go into the science of osmosis and the rest - but honestly, being kiln dried for a week does not make for properly seasoned wood. A month, yes, more likely, but the firewood business like any other, is all about quick profit. Feels dry, feels light, looks right - take one "kiln dried for a week" log, split it, and moisture test it. Is it less than 18%?

[MellowshipSlinky]

guindilias said:

DonkeyApple said:

A ‘load’ around here is at least two crates worth of wood and £90/£100. The chap stacks it in the store for you. The local kiln dries service is about £300 and within a week has all the moisture of well seasoned normal firewood.

Kiln dried wood doesn't reach the low moisture content of normally seasoned wood.in a week.
Yes, the outside layer where you stick the tester will be - even try the ends, it'll show it as being nice and dry.
Ask him for a split, then test what you just revealed, the inside.
It will be nowhere near 18% or less assuming it was fresh cut and split I could go into the science of osmosis and the rest - but honestly, being kiln dried for a week does not make for properly seasoned wood. A month, yes, more likely, but the firewood business like any other, is all about quick profit. Feels dry, feels light, looks right - take one "kiln dried for a week" log, split it, and moisture test it. Is it less than 18%?

As a newbie to this, how long would it take to have properly seasoned firewood from a recently chopped down tree?

I need to get an external log store, and looking at them it seems you can get either open fronted or ones with doors.
I know the wood needs free air to stop mould etc, but how do you keep open fronted stores dry?

In my situation, the stove won’t be used every day - more than likely once a week in winter, so I guess I’m not going to get through as much timber as some of you will.

[S6PNJ]

MellowshipSlinky said:

As a newbie to this, how long would it take to have properly seasoned firewood from a recently chopped down tree?

It depends on what the wood is (hardwood or softwood) but a good rule of thumb is 1" per year, so a log/twig/branch that is 2" diameter will take one year (one inch from the outside to the middle). Other info here - https://arbtalk.co.uk/forums/topic/113247-oak-for-...

[RichB]

Had several mature oak and sweet chestnuts felled last year and they are burning beautifully this winter.

[Buzz84]

aberdeeneuan said:

Shnozz said:

thebraketester said:

aberdeeneuan said:

After:

What make is that? Love the big glass front, looks ace.

+1 for the make please. Like that a lot.

Cheers guys, it's a Parkray Aspect 5 compact. We liked the glass window a lot as well! The room isn't massive so we wanted something with a lot of glass that isn't too deep to manage the output.

That's almost identical to ours! We have a aspect 5 in the same shaped opening, same thermometer and the same colour granite!

We still have some finishing to do around the edges, we want to get a floating mantel above and the alcove around the stove needs painting.

Our stove has pride of place in our new extension:

Before (well sort of, the final position isn't far from the garage side door:


During:


After:


Our neighbour owns a lot of forest and the deal is of I go help him logging and cutting it all up, I get some of the wood.

Just need to construct a log store to put it in (currently just piled in a jewson's bulk bag on the drive) and get myself a nice axe for making kindling.

[Buzz84]

LittleBigPlanet said:

The gentleman above (who has the burner will know better than I) but I have specified for a 'wood only' burner. Despite this, the versions online suggest that its multi-fuel.

We're buying this one: https://www.norwichwoodburners.co.uk/product/parkr...

There is a optional grill available for the aspect range to make it coal/multifuel burning.
It fits in the bottom and converts it to be suitable for burning coal by allowing sit to circulate underneath the coal and providing an ash pan underneath.

My understanding is that:

Wood like air from above to burn on a bed of ash. Whereas coal like to be clear and draw air from below (hence it goes on a grill)

Just as long as the flue is suitable. I read somewhere that if wood and coal is burnt then it can make the smoke acidicvwhich can eat the wrong material.

(I could be wrong about any of the above and welcome comment...)



We don't have it for ours

[Craikeybaby]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

LittleBigPlanet said:

aberdeeneuan said:

Haha, enjoy - ours has been on nightly this week. There is a definite knack to getting it lit but once you have it, it'll burn happily at tickover all night.

Presumably this will kick out a decent amount of heat? Our house is as air tight as a paper bag so one of the reasons for getting the burner is to reduce heating costs (and leave it cooling down over night to take the chill off).

Presuming it's a multi burner, coal is your answer to that. At bedtime I put half a dozen pieces of coal on, and it's still warm in the morning. I often find some orange coal at 7 the next evening when re-lighting it!

I had an interesting one over the weekend, on Friday evening I put the last log on the fire about 20:30, it was probably too big, but wasn't going to go out into the cold to get a smaller one. The fire seemed to be out by 22:00, although there was still a fair bit of log left.

When I got up on Saturday the fire still looked out, but then I popped out of the back door to get something and came in to find the fire can lit up again. The draft from having the door open must have given the fire a bit more oxygen! We do have a floor vent in the room with the stove, but had the old draughty windows replaced over the summer.

[xyz123]

Craikeybaby said:

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

LittleBigPlanet said:

aberdeeneuan said:

Haha, enjoy - ours has been on nightly this week. There is a definite knack to getting it lit but once you have it, it'll burn happily at tickover all night.

Presumably this will kick out a decent amount of heat? Our house is as air tight as a paper bag so one of the reasons for getting the burner is to reduce heating costs (and leave it cooling down over night to take the chill off).

Presuming it's a multi burner, coal is your answer to that. At bedtime I put half a dozen pieces of coal on, and it's still warm in the morning. I often find some orange coal at 7 the next evening when re-lighting it!

I had an interesting one over the weekend, on Friday evening I put the last log on the fire about 20:30, it was probably too big, but wasn't going to go out into the cold to get a smaller one. The fire seemed to be out by 22:00, although there was still a fair bit of log left.

When I got up on Saturday the fire still looked out, but then I popped out of the back door to get something and came in to find the fire can lit up again. The draft from having the door open must have given the fire a bit more oxygen! We do have a floor vent in the room with the stove, but had the old draughty windows replaced over the summer.

That's interesting. Nonetheless I hope. You have working carbon monoxide detector(s)

[Hugo85]

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[Gooose]

Hugo85 said:

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Nice!

What paint did you use in the recess? Same as the chimney breast?
I’ve gotta paint mine but I’m not sure how normal paint holds up to such high temps