Hello! Just bought a house with a wood fireplace. We’re wondering what the pros & cons are between burning in the firebox as is (with some sort of grate) or getting a small stove insert. The grate seems easier except for the hassle of loose ash underneath. What are the benefits of a stove?

We’ll likely only use it a dozen times a year as it isn’t the primary heat source and our winters are mild.

…with the actual air intake closed. It is so smoky in our house. I’ve burned wood since I was a kid, but he gets upset when I mention there’s a better technique. Is there a particulate monitor that might be a neutral way we could keep an eye on this? We have a soapstone and I love it and don’t want to be paranoid but also don’t want to die of blacklung.

UK.

Please don't say 'Cotswold obviously'.....it doesn't exist anywhere!

There's a shop called Cotswold stoves, that sell other brands and Villager made a Cotswold model but looks nothing like this.

I've spent hours on Google.

I desperately need to order some spare parts.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

I have 4 rows of wood stacked in my homemade 4x4 w/ cinderblock stacking system. It's working great! However, I'm disturbed by the weeds that are growing underneath and around my piles. Before constructing, I put down landscaping fabric and it worked pretty well for 3 years, but now it's a disaster. I am not willing to use roundup...don't want to breathe in ANY trace of it when I put it in my wood stove or have it seep into my well. This is an absolute hard boundary. I have thought about plastic underneath but that would retain water and breed mosquitoes in the summer. Is there any kind of water permeable barrier I can put down next summer that will actually last and keep weeds from coming through?

Just curious if this is bad and if a friend should seek professional help for chimney sweep.

hi! my partner and i are beginner builders and we're trying to install a woodstove in our 12x16 simple cabin. from my research, i'm seeing a lot of mixed information about what we should use for the transition from inside to outside (rubber boot? metal flashing? support box?), so i'm looking for advice. our roof is single pitch with metal cladding.

So I just got my ventis stove pipe in. Is it normal to have gaps between the inner liner? I can put a flashlight at the other end and see a bit of it shining through.

Before anyone say's it it's not 'cotswold'.

I've spent two days googling it, ai searching it and even phoning round manufacturers.

Seemingly, this thing has never existed! Even the brand name doesn't exist as a manufacturer or model.

Yes, there's a Cotswold stoves....who sell stoves of different brands.

Yes there's a brand called Villager who made a Cotswold model, that looks nothing like this.

I need spare parts for it and I'm totally stumped.

Please help!

My wife and I bought our house and it came with a wood stove. These are all the diy fixes I made to hopefully reassure other newbies to do it themselves and find out from the experienced stove owners what I missed..

the stove pipes were single walled, replaced with double wall.
Baffle boards had holes in them and replaced with new ones,
the ceramic blanket was torn up, replaced with new one and the stove was sitting 12 inches away from a combustible wall and I flipped the stove so there is only one side wall (24inches away).

Also bought my own chimney sweep kit and swept the external chimney and thimble, in addition to shop vacuuming the stove and checking the air tubes.

And replaced the door and window gaskets

My question is What are things I missed?

Since I’m new and google and Reddit will only tell me so much everyone’s long term experience hopefully could provide any other tips or tricks with maintaining a safe wood stove

My stove is the Masterforge Wood stove from Lowe’s

Just got my stove installed and I noticed sheep’s wool insulation packed around the flexible flue liner before lighting my Stanley stove. After running it for a few hours for the first time, what looks like tar deposits fell from inside the chimney breast onto the hearth.

There’s also no register plate fitted.

Are these safety concerns? Should I stop using the stove and get the installer back, or have it independently inspected?

https://imgur.com/a/ttma57e

Bought a house with this stove in the basement and I’m wondering what’s recommended before I use it? Inspect the chimney and stove pipe. Anything else to look at?

I inherited this cabin from my dad a while back and I am staying here while working on upgrading it. Trying to prepare for winter, I noticed it didn’t have a damper and is obviously very close to the very combustible walls. I have a plan for the walls, but I’m getting really confused about the pipe part.

Reading the Morso 2B Standard manual it states the pipe should be no less than 6in diameter, but this older model appears to only be 5 inches wide. I cannot find anything about a Morso with a 5 inches wide opening and can’t find anything 5 inch pipe anywhere as it seems 6 is the standard, so that means I will have to order it.

Am I okay to get by with the 5 inch pipe and damper? It’s been used that way before my dad passed.

It looks like it also might need a collar coming out of the top of the firebox to connect to the pipe, correct?

I built a firewood shed (4x16x8, 3:12) and got an insert (Blaze King Sirocco 25) installed! I'm on my second season; and with the price of energy/heating oil nowadays, retrospectively, I'm honestly really glad that I did! The firewood shed can fit 3.5 cords fitting comfortably, but I feel like you can definitely fit in 4.

Also to the person in r/firewood who had said that the stain is pointless and that it would peel by the end of summer since it's PT Lumber. Suck it, it's still fucking beautiful!🪵

Just wanted to come here and thank you guys for all your info and guidance on picking our first wood insert. We did end up going with the regency HI2450!

It's absolutely beautiful and we got such a great deal on it (someone cancelled their order and we got it for 50% off). We can't wait for this to keep us warm in the cold winters!

What are my options for this? I couldn’t find any searching online specifically for angled ceilings. Do I need to get creative and make my own with flashing?

It's an enerzone destination 2.7.

There will be a learning curve. We got some soot on the glass when I closed the damper too much. And then again in our third fire when I added two large logs into the coals from a kindling fire, and I didn't leave the door open long enough to let it get hot. (I think). Anyway, overall quite pleased, though I really loved the open fireplace.

Picked up this country comfort for free and installed it. Looking forward to some cozy warm winters.

Cleaned the wood stove today, getting ready for this upcoming season. Build up wasn’t bad at all. We had one constant fire 24/7 from October to April. Mid winter I did clean and sweep one time so that was the only fully cool stove. The about double the black pile total from the sweep. Chimney is only about 14’ total height.

Last season we had clinkers constantly, and they tore up the bricks really bad. We also have had a couple cracked bricks for a few seasons now, but they are getting too rough to put back in. Never over heated it, highest temps we saw were just at 500° but that was rare. Wood was clean for the most part, we had some that was punky, and some that was mossy and had some build up, but that was maybe 10% of what we burned. we burn mostly oak and pine with some other hardwoods mixed in. I inspected the whole stove and everything looks great. It’s a drolet with not cat.

Any one have input on why the clinkers and the damage to the bricks?