On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 21:12:21 UTC+1, jim wrote:
harry Wrote in message:
On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 11:54:03 UTC+1, jim wrote:
Mark Allread Wrote in message:
On Tue, 06 Sep 2016 20:23:08 +0100, damduck-egg wrote:

On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:13:41 -0000 (UTC), R D S wrote:

We are looking at woodburning stoves, around max 5kw would suffice.

The guy who is going to fit it likes Esse and I quite like this,
https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=esse+525+stove


Which is a steel one and

I installed one of these http://salamanderstoves.com/
and am quite pleased with it.

that is a cast one

Our existing stove is a cast one but we are looking to change next year
and cannot decide whether steel or cast is better.

Gut feeling is to stick with what we know and go for cast - but these
seem to be getting less common.

In addition to the OP request can I add a supplementary for views on cast
vs steel.


Cast.
Lots/all steel ones need firebricks inside to protect the steel
plate sides/top from warping from the heat.....so it goes up the
chimney...
rather than in your room...

The other purpose of firebricks is to prevent the flame being "quenched" by premature cooling. This leads to unburnt fuel going up the chimney causing soot and tar to be deposited.


Premature cooling?? Describe us a scenario where that might happen
in a wood stove cycle?

When a flame has energy extracted before the combustion process is complete, the combustion process ceases and hence unburnt fuel escapes as gasses, soot and tars.

One of the function of firebricks is to stop this happening.

http://www.itv.rwth-aachen.de/en/res...at-cold-walls/