I thought I would recommend a couple of firewood suppliers in Bristol that I have used.
The first is http://www.wellseasonedwood.com/ This is a local family run company supplying Bristol with as the name suggests well seasoned firewood, also kiln dried logs and other fire related bits and bobs. This compan[…]
I was at a pub yesterday sweeping a couple of chimneys, one was a lovely big open fire and the other a twinwall system connected to a multi fuel stove. The pub manager was hoping to get the stove going soon as the pub could do with the extra heat. Unfortunately when I inspected the installation it became clear that it was connected to the wrong type of twinwall, it was connected to a gas or oil twinwall instead of a solid fuel twinwall. Also the pipe passed too close to some plaster board which is a combustible material. The stove will need to be re-installed correctly before it can be used.
I was in a cottage in Gloucestershire this afternoon. There was a small multi fuel stove in the lounge that had not been used for quite a while. It was connected to a 6 inch flexi flue liner, but there was no provision for sweeping it. I had to pull the stove out and to my surprise I found the whole stove pipe was blocked with twigs, and when I swept the liner yet more twigs came down. A good reason to get a cowl with a bird mesh fitted.
Here are a couple of fairly straight forward installations involving breaking out the fireplaces and fitting new superimposed hearths.
This customer had recently moved into a cottage that already had a Yeoman Exe fitted. Unfortunately it had been installed incorrectly, there was no access for sweeping the unlined chimney, the wooded lintel was too close to the stove pipe and had caught fire in the past and the stove was fitted in a recess that was too small preventing adaquate air circulation. You can see what I did to bring the installation in line with building regulations.
I was called out to quote on a simple installation. The customer had recently moved in to a renovated house where the fireplace was opened and ready to fit a woodburner. When I shone a torch up the chimney it became clear that the chimney was blocked at about the level of the bedroom above. I put a sweep rod up and gave the obstruction a good shunt but it didn’t move. So the only option was to open the wall in the bedroom. I took out three bricks at floor level and it revealed a piece of board with cement poured on top of it. With some hammering and chiseling I was able to remove it, then it was just a case of re-bricking it and plastering the area.
