Stoves

If you’re reading this article, the chances are you’ve been having a frustrating experience with a woodburner. Unfortunately, we’ll have to increase that frustration before we can solve the problem: it’s probably your fault that your woodburner keeps going out....

One of the many choices available to you when you’re shopping for a woodburner is whether to choose cast iron or steel. These are the two materials from which almost all woodburners are made. So, which is best? Better steel...

Wood-burning stoves have many advantages beyond their main purpose, and one of those advantages is that they can really speed up your laundry. In the UK, for much of the year, it can be difficult to get clothes dry outside....

Find out all about fire bricks and the role they play in your wood-burning stove. You might have seen the term fire bricks mentioned in relation to wood-burning stoves. If you are unsure what is being referred to, you should...

If you’re wondering, ‘Do I need a carbon monoxide detector for a woodburner?’, the short answer is yes. That’s because carbon monoxide is such a deadly gas, your household’s lives so valuable and a carbon monoxide detector so relatively inexpensive...

You will often hear people talking about DEFRA approved wood-burning stoves. It is a commonly used phrase for appliances that you are allowed to used in smoke control areas. We even slip into using the terminology ourselves occasionally, but strictly...

We are often contacted by people who have inadvertently discovered a plate sitting inside their woodburner at the top of the firebox. If they are baffled as to what the internal place is, that’s pretty ironic because it is actually...

A riddling grate is a grate featuring a mechanism that allows the bars of the grate to be moved. The benefit of this is that the bars are tilted to allow ashes to be tipped directly into the ashpan without...

One of the most frequently questions we are asked by people who are interested in installing a wood-burning stove in a conservatory is: can you have a woodburner flue running through a polycarbonate roof? In this article, we will answer...