Stoves

We’re regularly contacted by people asking about a metal plate at the top of the inside of their wood-burning stove. Sometimes they call it a ‘roof’ or a ‘ceiling’, sometimes they call it a ‘panel’. Often, they want to know...

Many wood-burning stoves come with the choice of attaching the flue pipe to either a top or rear flue exit. All things being equal, it’s best for a flue pipe to go up in a straight line in order to...

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...