A little introduction to my set up.......

Same problem here in Canada And i know i'll never figure it out eh.

 

Thats funny, both belong to the Brits

 

Neat looking stove.

 

Well a few years have passed!!! Time for a bit of an update - moved house, installed a new stove, lots of fun things happening!

Still burning

Spent some of Saturday with the eldest (8 going on 16...) turning these (with the help of my trusty Makita battery saw!):-



Into these:-



Using this:-



Like this:-



Finally ends like this:-



Then into my wee kindling shed

Stay safe guys and girls!

 

Oh, should have said - pics of new stove to follow!

 

Yes, nice to see a global membership, interesting, welcome!

 

So having moved to our 'forever-home' in the December of 2019 we set about making it ours and have been ever since.

One of these was to get a fire in there...! There was nothing when we bought it!

So we decided to look at the chimney in the 'study/snug' and found this:-



So got out these:-



Filled this:-



Had fun (!) on the way out:-



And hooorrraaaay, we have a fire!



Then turned my back and WAHAY, found this on Gumtree for £100



So I said thank you very much I'll have that!

And before long:-

 

So that is part 1 of my journey to heating my/our new home with wood!

Part 2 is a lot more involved, very pic heavy and will be along shortly!

 

Did you install a liner in the chimney? Appears to fit in there nice and snug.

 

Nope - no liner, just shoved it in and hey ho all good! I actually burn more coal in there than wood to be honest, just seems to work a bit better with the little cassette type of insert.

 

To prove it:-



!!

 

Isn't that sacrilegious behaviour for FHC members? Does it warrant a demerit, or yellow card or something?

 

Nope - instead of being 3 years out, I'm about 15 million years out with my hoard

 

Should be dry by then!!

 

How do you light (make fire) coal?

 

on the off chance. Do you recognize this English stove? I had it for a year and can’t remember the name. Named after the city in England where most of the cast iron is made if I remember correctly.

 

It looks like a Coalbrookedale Severn, named after the river Severn which flows through Coalbrookedale and Ironbridge - the birth place of the industrial revolution.

The Iron Bridge in Coalbrookdale

‘Up the Dale – history is made, not bought’: making history from below in the industrial revolution - History Workshop

 

With wood

 

Don't use it a huge amount at the moment as Stove 2.0 will show!! (Pics and write-up to follow shortly - I promise!)