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RIP Your Majesty Thankyou for everything Latest update from Stove Specialists Ltd via Stove Specialists Ltd – stove installation Stove Specialists Ltd Unit 1C, Chetwynd Lodge Chester Road Newport, Telford TF10 8AB +44-1902-519089

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The Ecosy Panoramic Multifuel Stove by Stove World UK installed by our HETAS registered engineer with a flexible flue liner in our customers existing fireplace in #stowonthewold

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The Ecosy Panoramic Multifuel Stove by Stove World UK installed by our HETAS registered engineer with a flexible flue liner in our customers existing fireplace in #stowonthewold Latest update from Stove Specialists Ltd via Stove Specialists Ltd – stove installation Stove Specialists Ltd Unit 1C, Chetwynd Lodge Chester Road Newport, Telford TF10 8AB +44-1902-519089

The Ecosy Panoramic Multifuel Stove by Stove World UK installed by our HETAS registered engineer with a flexible flue liner in our customers existing fireplace in #stowonthewold Read More »

We get a lot of enquiries about boiler stoves, but we don’t install wet systems & we won’t be in the future, so here’s a tip to find an installer who does

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We get a lot of enquiries about boiler stoves, but we don’t install wet systems & we won’t be in the future, so here’s a tip to find an installer who does Latest update from Stove Specialists Ltd via Stove Specialists Ltd – stove installation Stove Specialists Ltd Unit 1C, Chetwynd Lodge Chester Road

We get a lot of enquiries about boiler stoves, but we don’t install wet systems & we won’t be in the future, so here’s a tip to find an installer who does Read More »

Weighing Logs – An experiment on the wood seasoning process We’re seeing a lot of science in the news at the moment and our attention has been caught by a little experiment that promises to give an insight into the wood seasoning process. As we regularly mention, it is important for the well-being of your woodburner and the efficiency of your fuel use that all logs are fully seasoned before burning them. The easiest way to check this is by buying a moisture meter to measure the water content in a log. We found a study by Robert Pumphrey who has opted for a slightly more laborious process that continues to garner some interesting results. Rather than use a moisture meter, Robert has deployed his humble kitchen scales to regularly weigh a sample of logs. He is working to a hypothesis that when his logs stop losing mass, they will be ready to burn (because this will suggest that all or most of the moisture in the log has evaporated). This approach is probably not manageable as a preferred method of checking your wood is seasoned, but it does provide some interesting data on the seasoning process. Robert used just eight logs as a sample for the experiment. He took weekly measurements of the mass of each log, then recorded his results. He quickly discovered just how much water a log holds and also learnt why we recommend seasoning logs outside under a covered but open-sided structure. Summarising his observations to date, Robert said: Logs contain a lot of water. If you have 100kg of fresh logs in your shed, that may be around 35 litres of water. When you fill a shed with fresh logs, you can expect a significant volume of water condensing on the roof. Perhaps it makes more sense to dry logs outside first if you have the space. Logs put on mass when the weather is not very warm, get your logs in the shed by April if you need to use them next winter. I want to keep tracking this set of logs to see if they lose a significant mass of water on their second summer in the shed. You can see a graph of Robert’s findings to date below. If weekly weigh-ins are not for you, you can use a moisture meter instead. We’ve previously calculated that using a moisture meter can save you hundreds of pounds each time you burn a tonne of wood

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Weighing Logs – An experiment on the wood seasoning process We’re seeing a lot of science in the news at the moment and our attention has been caught by a little experiment that promises to give an insight into the wood seasoning process. As we regularly mention, it is important for the well-being of your woodburner and the efficiency of your fuel use that all logs are fully seasoned before burning them. The easiest way to check this is by buying a moisture meter to measure the water content in a log. We found a study by Robert Pumphrey who has opted for a slightly more laborious process that continues to garner some interesting results. Rather than use a moisture meter, Robert has deployed his humble kitchen scales to regularly weigh a sample of logs. He is working to a hypothesis that when his logs stop losing mass, they will be ready to burn (because this will suggest that all or most of the moisture in the log has evaporated). This approach is probably not manageable as a preferred method of checking your wood is seasoned, but it does provide some interesting data on the seasoning process. Robert used just eight logs as a sample for the experiment. He took weekly measurements of the mass of each log, then recorded his results. He quickly discovered just how much water a log holds and also learnt why we recommend seasoning logs outside under a covered but open-sided structure. Summarising his observations to date, Robert said: Logs contain a lot of water. If you have 100kg of fresh logs in your shed, that may be around 35 litres of water. When you fill a shed with fresh logs, you can expect a significant volume of water condensing on the roof. Perhaps it makes more sense to dry logs outside first if you have the space. Logs put on mass when the weather is not very warm, get your logs in the shed by April if you need to use them next winter. I want to keep tracking this set of logs to see if they lose a significant mass of water on their second summer in the shed. You can see a graph of Robert’s findings to date below. If weekly weigh-ins are not for you, you can use a moisture meter instead. We’ve previously calculated that using a moisture meter can save you hundreds of pounds each time you burn a tonne of wood Read More »

A woodburner is a great focal point in any living room. Whether you want your stove to blend into your room or set the tone for the rest of the decor, decorating around a woodburner presents you with a wide range of options. There’s no right way of decorating the way as long as what you decide to do is legal and safe. You can check the full criteria in Document J of the Building Regulations, but the main considerations are: You need to leave enough space around the woodburner. You need to place your stove on a suitable hearth. You need to make sure your stove is a safe distance from combustible materials. Those safety considerations aside, there is almost no limit to what you can do when you’re decorating around a woodburner. Here are some popular options. Woodburners have a history that dates back more than 200 years, while flatscreen TVs are a more recent development. But they can cohabit in modern living rooms. As long as the distances involved comply with the law and the manufacturer’s guidance, you can install a wall mounted TV above your stove as part of a feature wall. An ever popular way of decorating around a woodburner is to place a wooden mantel above it. A wooden mantel seems to accentuate the rustic appeal of the stove itself. How rustic you want to go is up to you. Some people favour reclaimed wood that is full of lumps and bumps (and which perhaps could not be entrusted with your cup of tea), while other households favour a smoother piece of wood. This look works on large fireplaces and smaller ones – it’s just a case of finding a suitably sized piece of wood, as well as adding some nice decoration around your stove, a wooden mantelpiece is also a useful platform for further decor. There’s no reason why you can’t get creative with the non-combustible materials around your woodburner. As long as the tiles you choose are suitable for use behind stoves – where the temperatures will crack some tiles – you can pick out an eye-catching tile that enhances the decor of the entire room. An alternative to tiles is to decorate your wood-burning stove with bricks. Again, you need to make sure you’re choosing something that is suitable for that use. As you can see the result can be very effective. It doesn’t have to be entirely brick. You could combine the bricks with a natural stone for a nice juxtaposition of urban and rural building traditions. For homes that don’t have a traditional fireplace, there is the option of insetting your woodburner within a recess in your wall. This means you’re able to place the stove within your room without impinging on floor space. Whether this is easier or more complicated than a regular woodburner installation will depend on your home and the infrastructure that’s already in place. If you have an existing recess or chimney breast with which to work, this could a straightforward option that has eye-catching results.

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A woodburner is a great focal point in any living room. Whether you want your stove to blend into your room or set the tone for the rest of the decor, decorating around a woodburner presents you with a wide range of options. There’s no right way of decorating the way as long as what you decide to do is legal and safe. You can check the full criteria in Document J of the Building Regulations, but the main considerations are: You need to leave enough space around the woodburner. You need to place your stove on a suitable hearth. You need to make sure your stove is a safe distance from combustible materials. Those safety considerations aside, there is almost no limit to what you can do when you’re decorating around a woodburner. Here are some popular options. Woodburners have a history that dates back more than 200 years, while flatscreen TVs are a more recent development. But they can cohabit in modern living rooms. As long as the distances involved comply with the law and the manufacturer’s guidance, you can install a wall mounted TV above your stove as part of a feature wall. An ever popular way of decorating around a woodburner is to place a wooden mantel above it. A wooden mantel seems to accentuate the rustic appeal of the stove itself. How rustic you want to go is up to you. Some people favour reclaimed wood that is full of lumps and bumps (and which perhaps could not be entrusted with your cup of tea), while other households favour a smoother piece of wood. This look works on large fireplaces and smaller ones – it’s just a case of finding a suitably sized piece of wood, as well as adding some nice decoration around your stove, a wooden mantelpiece is also a useful platform for further decor. There’s no reason why you can’t get creative with the non-combustible materials around your woodburner. As long as the tiles you choose are suitable for use behind stoves – where the temperatures will crack some tiles – you can pick out an eye-catching tile that enhances the decor of the entire room. An alternative to tiles is to decorate your wood-burning stove with bricks. Again, you need to make sure you’re choosing something that is suitable for that use. As you can see the result can be very effective. It doesn’t have to be entirely brick. You could combine the bricks with a natural stone for a nice juxtaposition of urban and rural building traditions. For homes that don’t have a traditional fireplace, there is the option of insetting your woodburner within a recess in your wall. This means you’re able to place the stove within your room without impinging on floor space. Whether this is easier or more complicated than a regular woodburner installation will depend on your home and the infrastructure that’s already in place. If you have an existing recess or chimney breast with which to work, this could a straightforward option that has eye-catching results. Read More »

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Latest update from Stove Specialists Ltd via Stove Specialists Ltd – stove installation Stove Specialists Ltd Unit 1C, Chetwynd Lodge Chester Road Newport, Telford TF10 8AB +44-1902-519089

Look at the before & after A lovely installation of a Portway Arundel by Portway Stoves installed by our registered HETAS engineer with a flexible flue liner & slate hearth in #marketdrayton #shropshire

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Look at the before & after A lovely installation of a Portway Arundel by Portway Stoves installed by our registered HETAS engineer with a flexible flue liner & slate hearth in #marketdrayton #shropshire Latest update from Stove Specialists Ltd via Stove Specialists Ltd – stove installation Stove Specialists Ltd Unit 1C, Chetwynd Lodge

As the children all return to school, here’s a bit of history for you to read ! If you’ve been enjoying the warmth, cosiness and financial benefits of a woodburner, you might be wondering which genius bestowed all of those things upon you: who invented the wood-burning stove? In this post we are going to delve into the history of the wood-burning stove to find out who invented the woodburner. As with many inventions, there is some debate as to who actually got their first. With people in different parts of the world working independently to find better ways of heating their homes and cooking. The result was several different interpretations of ways in which traditional fireplaces could be improved through the use of something akin to what we know as a woodburner. Saugus Iron Works was founded in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1642. Its foundry, which was around 10 miles outside Boston and is now a National Historical Site, is credited as the first to construct a box made of cast iron plates inside which wood could be burned. Almost a century later, a Belgian architect called Francois de Cuvilliés introduced an enclosed box that could be used to heat food. He called it the Castrol stove, but it would become better known as the stew stove. Although de Cuvilliés’ design did incorporate an enclosed metal box, the metal was clad around a masonry construction. That leads us to the man who is most commonly considered to be the inventor of the wood-burning stove: Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin You might expect inventing the woodburner to be quite a nice claim to fame, but Franklin also happens to have been one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, which trumps the humble logburner for most history buffs! Along with the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, Franklin is considered to have been one of the key figures in securing US independence and creating the country we know today. A hugely interesting figure, Franklin was a polymath who excelled in being an author, politician, scientist, inventor and many other things. His inventions included the lightining rod, bifocals and his Franklin stove. The Franklin Stove The Franklin stove was invented by Franklin in 1741. It was a metal-lined fireplace that featured a hollow baffle that sought to retain more heat in the room. The stove itself was a box of cast iron panels connected together by iron screws through connections that were made during the casting process. It stood around 76cm (30 inches) tall. Unlike modern appliances, it had an open front (excluding a decorative panel at the top). It also included an ‘inverted siphon’, which was supposed to draw hot fumes around the baffle. Its inclusion was inspired by its use by Franz Kessler, an inventor, writer and scholar who lived in modern day Germany in the 16th and 17th centuries. Kessler has written a book on stoves. But Franklin’s U-shaped duct that was supposed to extract heat from the gases as they travelled through the duct and out of the chimney did not work as planned. Since the gases had to pass through a cold flue set in the floor before entering the chimney, the gases cooled significantly and resulted in a poor draw. The Franklin Stove did not enjoy good sales, but it did influence many of the woodburners that followed it and was much safer than the fireplaces that went before. His box-shaped design remains the preferred shape for the overwhelming majority of wood-burning stoves. David Rittenhouse David Rittenhouse – astronomer, inventor and the first director of the US Mint – tackled some of the problems in Franklin’s design. His stove was more commercially successful than Franklin’s, and therefore arguably the first economically viable woodburner, but is not as well remembered. Particularly in the USA, the Franklin stove name stuck and is often applied to stoves that have moved on significantly from the original design. That said. enough of the design – not least the box shape and use of a baffle – remains intact to say that Benjamin Franklin is the inventor of the wood-burning stove as we know it today.

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As the children all return to school, here’s a bit of history for you to read ! If you’ve been enjoying the warmth, cosiness and financial benefits of a woodburner, you might be wondering which genius bestowed all of those things upon you: who invented the wood-burning stove? In this post we are going to delve into the history of the wood-burning stove to find out who invented the woodburner. As with many inventions, there is some debate as to who actually got their first. With people in different parts of the world working independently to find better ways of heating their homes and cooking. The result was several different interpretations of ways in which traditional fireplaces could be improved through the use of something akin to what we know as a woodburner. Saugus Iron Works was founded in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1642. Its foundry, which was around 10 miles outside Boston and is now a National Historical Site, is credited as the first to construct a box made of cast iron plates inside which wood could be burned. Almost a century later, a Belgian architect called Francois de Cuvilliés introduced an enclosed box that could be used to heat food. He called it the Castrol stove, but it would become better known as the stew stove. Although de Cuvilliés’ design did incorporate an enclosed metal box, the metal was clad around a masonry construction. That leads us to the man who is most commonly considered to be the inventor of the wood-burning stove: Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin You might expect inventing the woodburner to be quite a nice claim to fame, but Franklin also happens to have been one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, which trumps the humble logburner for most history buffs! Along with the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, Franklin is considered to have been one of the key figures in securing US independence and creating the country we know today. A hugely interesting figure, Franklin was a polymath who excelled in being an author, politician, scientist, inventor and many other things. His inventions included the lightining rod, bifocals and his Franklin stove. The Franklin Stove The Franklin stove was invented by Franklin in 1741. It was a metal-lined fireplace that featured a hollow baffle that sought to retain more heat in the room. The stove itself was a box of cast iron panels connected together by iron screws through connections that were made during the casting process. It stood around 76cm (30 inches) tall. Unlike modern appliances, it had an open front (excluding a decorative panel at the top). It also included an ‘inverted siphon’, which was supposed to draw hot fumes around the baffle. Its inclusion was inspired by its use by Franz Kessler, an inventor, writer and scholar who lived in modern day Germany in the 16th and 17th centuries. Kessler has written a book on stoves. But Franklin’s U-shaped duct that was supposed to extract heat from the gases as they travelled through the duct and out of the chimney did not work as planned. Since the gases had to pass through a cold flue set in the floor before entering the chimney, the gases cooled significantly and resulted in a poor draw. The Franklin Stove did not enjoy good sales, but it did influence many of the woodburners that followed it and was much safer than the fireplaces that went before. His box-shaped design remains the preferred shape for the overwhelming majority of wood-burning stoves. David Rittenhouse David Rittenhouse – astronomer, inventor and the first director of the US Mint – tackled some of the problems in Franklin’s design. His stove was more commercially successful than Franklin’s, and therefore arguably the first economically viable woodburner, but is not as well remembered. Particularly in the USA, the Franklin stove name stuck and is often applied to stoves that have moved on significantly from the original design. That said. enough of the design – not least the box shape and use of a baffle – remains intact to say that Benjamin Franklin is the inventor of the wood-burning stove as we know it today. Read More »

Test It Tuesday Carbon monoxide is a poisonous, odourless, tasteless, invisible gas. In the home it is formed from incomplete combustion from any flame-producing appliance. … Current legislation states that if you have installed a wood burning or multifuel stove a carbon monoxide alarm is required. In order to ensure that your home has maximum protection, it’s important to have a CO detector on every floor. Five feet from the ground. Carbon monoxide detectors can get the best reading of your home’s air when they are placed five feet from the ground. Near every sleeping area. We have alarm/detectors in stock For more information info@stovespecialists.co.uk 08008321850 Message us on our Facebook page

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Test It Tuesday Carbon monoxide is a poisonous, odourless, tasteless, invisible gas. In the home it is formed from incomplete combustion from any flame-producing appliance. … Current legislation states that if you have installed a wood burning or multifuel stove a carbon monoxide alarm is required. In order to ensure that your home has maximum protection, it’s important to have a CO detector on every floor. Five feet from the ground. Carbon monoxide detectors can get the best reading of your home’s air when they are placed five feet from the ground. Near every sleeping area. We have alarm/detectors in stock For more information info@stovespecialists.co.uk 08008321850 Message us on our Facebook page Read More »

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RIP Your Majesty Thankyou for everything

The Ecosy Panoramic Multifuel Stove by Stove World UK installed by our HETAS registered engineer with a flexible flue liner in our customers existing fireplace in #stowonthewold

We get a lot of enquiries about boiler stoves, but we don’t install wet systems & we won’t be in the future, so here’s a tip to find an installer who does

Look at the before & after A lovely installation of a Portway Arundel by Portway Stoves installed by our registered HETAS engineer with a flexible flue liner & slate hearth in #marketdrayton #shropshire

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