Firewarm Insert Stoves

cocoman

Has anyone got experience of the above (5kw)?
Installation looks very simple - just slide into existing opening and no flue adaptor required. There's a few posts about firewarm stoves but I can't find anything recent.
Thanks.

ibFoxer

cocoman wrote: »

Has anyone got experience of the above (5kw)?
Installation looks very simple - just slide into existing opening and no flue adaptor required. There's a few posts about firewarm stoves but I can't find anything recent.
Thanks.

I have the experience of selling them if that's any help

There's an older version of this stove which had an unusual half oval outlet on top which wasn't required to be flued from, if it's this one then it is fairly straight forward, however be sure to pack it with vermiculite or similiar.

From a strictly sales point of view they are a cracking stove, althought the firebox is a tad small. Have you seen one in person yet?

cocoman

foxerv1 wrote: »

I have the experience of selling them if that's any help

There's an older version of this stove which had an unusual half oval outlet on top which wasn't required to be flued from, if it's this one then it is fairly straight forward, however be sure to pack it with vermiculite or similiar.

From a strictly sales point of view they are a cracking stove, althought the firebox is a tad small. Have you seen one in person yet?

Thanks.
I had a quick look at one last year but i didn't take too much heed at the time. I was looking to put in a freestanding one which I did. Now I'm looking at an insert for another room. Price of firewarm seemed ok from what i can remember. Less than 500 ? I thought the opening was just circular. Where would the vermiculite go?

ninja 12

I had one of these installed in my previous house -

http://www.firewarm.ie/insert_stove
http://heatdesign.ie/firewarm-insert-lifestyle-2#.VD2eVGd0ycw

Is this the one ?

As foxerv1 mentions above , the firebox isn't huge so very large logs are too big for it .

We only used briquettes in it and the heat was amazing .

I couldn't believe how little fuel it used .

A few sticks and a couple of briquettes to get it going , and once it was established one briquette every 45 to 90 minutes was all that was needed to keep the sitting room very warm .
With two briquettes the room was too hot , and we had to leave the sitting room door open

Visitors couldn't believe the heat we were getting with the miserable amount we were burning either .

One of the only things I wasn't too keen on was the matt finish , it always looked dusty unless it got a wipe with a damp cloth on a regular basis .

The door handle also got fairly hot , so the supplied heat proof glove got used a fair bit

Hope this helps .

cocoman

ninja 12 wrote: »

I had one of these installed in my previous house -

http://www.firewarm.ie/insert_stove
http://heatdesign.ie/firewarm-insert-lifestyle-2#.VD2eVGd0ycw

Is this the one ?

As foxerv1 mentions above , the firebox isn't huge so very large logs are too big for it .

We only used briquettes in it and the heat was amazing .

I couldn't believe how little fuel it used .

A few sticks and a couple of briquettes to get it going , and once it was established one briquette every 45 to 90 minutes was all that was needed to keep the sitting room very warm .
With two briquettes the room was too hot , and we had to leave the sitting room door open

Visitors couldn't believe the heat we were getting with the miserable amount we were burning either .

One of the only things I wasn't too keen on was the matt finish , it always looked dusty unless it got a wipe with a damp cloth on a regular basis .

The door handle also got fairly hot , so the supplied heat proof glove got used a fair bit

Hope this helps .

Thanks for that. Some good info there. That's the one I am looking at. Can you remember roughly how much it cost?

ninja 12

I honestly can't remember exactly how much it cost , as we got some other work done at the same time , and my wife went with the builder to choose and pay for the stove .

Installation seemed to be fairly easy .

When it was all done , we lit a few small fires before any large ones ( as recommended ).

The room it was heating is about 11 feet by 18 feet .( timber frame house with plenty of insulation )

We miss having a stove , we moved house at the end of May and our new house has an open fire with a back boiler , but the stove blocked the draught from the chimney .

We'll probably get an inset stove suitable for the back boiler next year .