A Saturday, a U-Haul trailer and three strapping chaps later and it's in the living room ...lovely(No Sis I know this isn't our living room it's when it was in it's previous home...can you tell it's never been used?...they say it was used once but noone believes them it's so pristine)
It's a Waterford Stanley Wood fueled cook stove from Ireland built in 1999 and we do aim to use it.
Love it! We have a black woodburning stove, used to have a red one in the old house which I'd loved to have brought with us, but it was one of the things that sold the house. Make sure there are no nests in your chimney...
ReplyDeleteRed sounds lovely, I can see why you'd want to have kept it. We try and sweep the chimney each week if we can as we burn all sorts of wood and it can get quite sooty..it has a little metal cap on top so not an ideal nest site (although a sudden vision of a large Raven sitting on top warming it's rear suddenly springs to mind..!)
ReplyDeleteEach week?!? Do you have your own kit? Our house is 3 storeys high and it costs £60-£80 a pop for each chimney. Maybe I need to go on a course...
ReplyDeleteWe live in a Ranch (Bungalow to you and me) so we have a set of rods that screw together and a nice brush that fastens on the end and there you go.
ReplyDeleteA friend in Notts always used to do their own chimneys (two story house)and at first borrowed her dad's set of rods until the night when they sat in front of the stove puzzled by the funny noises in the chimney...he'd left the rods in and the noise was the brass joining screws falling down the chimney....they that were all that was left of the rods...oops
these guys sell the kit if you feel adventurous
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