I was away yesterday with my better half to see about buying and installing a woodburner into a single storey extension thats built onto my house ,anyway i thought there would be nothing simpler pick a stove a couple of meter of flue and install but i was told building regs say there has to be a minimum of 4.5 metres of flue on top of the stove to get the propper draw and so there would be no carbon monoxide coming into the house :yikes: i thought is this correct so i went to another stove supplier and was told the same , so basically if i went ahead the flue pipe would need to be higher than the original building but the flue would need to be unsupported due to the position of where i would want the stove(ie it would not be next to the original wall) .the flue pipe itself would be £2000:yikes: anyway this led me to think about the stove i have for my tipi n shed there is nowhere near 4.5 mteres on top so are they safe .....
house woodburner stove ,new to me !
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Building regs in this area have tightened a lot recently. I think that's a good thing. It's easy in these days of sealed unit double glazing to make a house practically airtight, and if your stove can't draw air into the building it can kill you. Stainless flue pipe is expensive. Stainless double walled flue pipe is very expensive. You need to be prepared for a flue to cost more than the stove, sometimes a lot more. Having said that a wood burner will save you money in the long run and to my way of thinking nothing makes a room cosier, so to me it would be worth it just for that even if it wouldn't save any money.
Your tipi and your shed aren't likely to be sealed quite to the same extent so I don't think you need to be unduly concerned, but you do need to be concerned. The stove probably won't be a clean-burning type, so you can probably see the exhaust gases easily. If you have no trouble getting smoke to exit via the chimney you're probably all right, but don't try to seal the shed to stop draughts and make it warmer or you could get into trouble. A carbon monoxide alarm is the best bet, there's one not ten feet from me as I write this, and the stove is nice and hot.
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forestwalker
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forestwalker
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And one more thing. It is not just the matter of cutting a hole in your ceiling and roof. There needs to be a space with no flamable materials around the flue, and presumably there needs to be an inspection (or your insurance company will laught evilly in your face if your house burns down).
Gill try the Backwoodsman, http://www.backwoodsman-stoves.co.uk/TOPICS/CHIMNEY_THEORY/chim11.html.
phil
phil
http://www.woodburningstoveslimited.com/index.php?action=cms.Ventilation
A damper will set you back about £45, then pop a 1mtr length of Vitreous enamelled pipe on the top (£40) to give you a head start, then another 3 mtrs of stainless steel twin wall insulated flue will set you back about £100/mtr
http://www.firesonline.co.uk/acatalog/125mm_Twin_Wall_Flue_Pipe.html
So thats about £400 so far, a few ancillaries, say another £200, that's "only" £600;
So the extra £1400 must include Admin charges
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