Crunching the fuel bill
November 11, 2008
We got our second stove fitted today. Hurray!! Things appeared to go completely wrong at first as the glass of stove door was smashed and the delivered stand consisted of two right legs, in stead of a left and a right one. But nothing a quick phone call to the head office couldn’t fix.
At about lunch time all was prepped for making the hole in the roof… and then the heavens opened and the downpour started… typical… As one of the fitters said: “A bad day to make holes in roofs…”. Indeed, a true statement! I felt sorry for the guy on the roof. He definitely had his share of Skye weather today!
At about 3pm all was closed again: flue fitted, slates back in place and the roof was no longer leaking. And then you really want to try it out but… the flu units are sealed with a special type of cement (fire proof cement) and you can’t really fire up the stove unless stove and flue are completely clean, otherwise any cement remains would burn into the flue or stove surface. And washing cement off is a pain. You think it’s clean but once dried, there’s that grey film again. However, steady cleaning during the evening and all cement was finally removed, so I fired it up a couple of minutes ago. It works great! Money well spent! We’re totally ready for winter…
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Quite inspired from your blog to have a stove fitted in ours over the road too. We had such a fabulous one when we were in Cornwall, the make of which which no-one up here seems to supply.
Anyway, we hope to have a good look at yours and then a serious think!!