Wood heater flues...

[threedogs]

knots do come undone lets hope its not a slip knot eh

[mudski]

No knots in me bud

[Cuppa]

A couple of comments:

1. Stropp knows his stuff. I consulted him when first thinking about getting a wood heater.

2. IMO triple skin flue is a good idea (as well as being a safety requirement for many installations). My experience at our last house was that a single skin flue set inside an old chimney allowed the smoke to cool too much by the time it reached the top of the flue. Result was a PIA as I had to get up on the roof, ladder against the chimney, every month or two, to remove the flue top cowl & clean out all the build up of creosote where it had accumulated right at the top, mainly because it had cooled down too much I think. I think triple skin helps to prevent this.

3. Paying someone qualified means you should get a compliance certificate for the installation. Without this you could be in a sticky situation should you ever have a fire & need to make an insurance claim. You can check online to ensure that the installer has the required 'ticket', & should confirm that you'll get a compliance certificate before committing to an installer. Beware of the cowboys!

4. Wood heaters are great. Much nicer heat than a gas heater. However don't expect fuel costs to be cheaper if you are buying in your firewood!
You need a decent chainsaw & a trailer & time to collect the wood, plus a means of splitting the wood - I recently split half a dozen trailer loads of wood with a hand splitter. Bloody hard yakka, but if you don't put a price on your time the cost is only a bit of fuel for the saw & car.

Wood has quite a warming effect. It warms you when cutting it, when loading it into the trailer, when unloading it from the trailer, when splitting it, when stacking it & finally when burning it! A decent hydraulic log splitter makes the job quicker & easier, but they are not cheap, & it's still a lot of work. And don't forget that the wood you cut this year will be next year's fuel. And be choosy about what you cut if you can as crap firewood takes just as much effort as good firewood.

[Sir Roofy]

Your right there mate on every thing except the splitting log splitter is the way to go
we bought one last year best bit of gear that we have that we have and makes the
work so much easier

[mudski]

So it got installed today. Absolutely wrapped to say the least. The underhouse room it is in is always cold. Really cold. Within half an hour of having it on the room is so warm. The installer suggested a really good idea to us. You know those rectangle floor vents you use for ducted heating through the floor. Well, since the three main bedrooms are directly above where the wood heater is , he said to put a vent in the floor of each room so the heat can rise up and through the floor. Brilliant idea!
But the kids can now enjoy down stair without freezing....
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As for the wood. I bought a cube of wood today just to get us started. The installer had a little device which measures the moisture content of the wood and the wood I got was fairly new and quite moist. I was a mixed lot, so redgum, sugargum and all the others they said was in it, lol. But breifly speaking with @AB I think we need to make a day up the bush and go get a load or two. Make it morning of it. I have a nice new splitter, it works really well. And I like splitting the wood. For now.

[jay see]

Well there's one to tick off
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[mudski]

Well there's one to tick off
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Yeah for sure John. I actually had a drink tonight in celebration. Haha! May not be much for some but getting this done has really made me happy.

[Stropp]

Well he has done a good job mate, just like I would have if I had been over there.

[lucus30]

Nice mate looks awesome

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[jay see]

Yeah for sure John. I actually had a drink tonight in celebration. Haha! May not be much for some but getting this done has really made me happy.

And warm...

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