Installed new wood burning stove.

[bulldogeagle]

Preppers Lesson 1 - tell the bloody neighbours NOTHING!

lesson 1-tell the bloody neighbours nothing-ABOUT ANYTHING, the less they know the better it is.

[mongrel]

Wow! I didnt know I needed permission for a wood stove, they are very common up here in the highlands.

I did install it myself, but I did work for British gas as a installation engineer for 14 years in my youth, so the install, is tight with 5" steel liner to the top of the chimmey, CO2 checked while stove cold started and hot burning, have installed floor ventilation next to fireplace, so confident it's safe, but I'm not going to tell anybody, next project installing the Raeburn in the kitchen for hot water and rad's

Anyway our cottage is over 300 years old and there has been a live fire under that chimney for upwards of 275 years! I've just retro-engineered it!
But I do agree with any fire gas or solid it's better to have if fitted by a professional.
And it's been great over Christmas, really nice to have real flames and the heat! thats been appreciated by my other half.
I wonder if the firewood supplier will shop us! force me back to LPG, no money in that for him

I'm away to toast my toes

Mongrel

[jansman]

Wow! I didnt know I needed permission for a wood stove, they are very common up here in the highlands.

I did install it myself, but I did work for British gas as a installation engineer for 14 years in my youth, so the install, is tight with 5" steel liner to the top of the chimmey, CO2 checked while stove cold started and hot burning, have installed floor ventilation next to fireplace, so confident it's safe, but I'm not going to tell anybody, next project installing the Raeburn in the kitchen for hot water and rad's

Anyway our cottage is over 300 years old and there has been a live fire under that chimney for upwards of 275 years! I've just retro-engineered it!
But I do agree with any fire gas or solid it's better to have if fitted by a professional.
And it's been great over Christmas, really nice to have real flames and the heat! thats been appreciated by my other half.
I wonder if the firewood supplier will shop us! force me back to LPG, no money in that for him

I'm away to toast my toes

Mongrel

I have had two stoves for ten years. When I installed ours the only info was American so I used that and a good dose of Common Sense. Our old house has had more fires in the hearths than I have had dinner. I"ll be damned if any one comes snooping round my house!

[the-gnole]

Ifd you are a tenant the regulations mean that the Landlord has to do certain checks on their properties on a regular basis:

Gas and electrical inspections need to be done.

http://www.gas-elec.co.uk/landlords-ele ... afety.html

But there is also information available for other non gas or electricity installations.


Landlord & Tenant Act 1985 Section 11 Landlord responsible for installations.

Defective Premises Act (1972) Section 4 which imposes a duty of care on a landlord.