Hi all,
My name is Tobsie and I live in The Netherlands in Europe.
I have an older fireview woodstove (build before 1996) which was in the house I bought 7 years ago. I used the stove for the last 7 years each winter and it was used almost everyday in the autumn/winter period (6 months). I always thought it was a dutch stove and the manual I got with the stove was for a non similar model.
When I first started using the stove I cleaned the combuster and closed the bypas when the pipe temp was +100C. This worked ok for 4/5 years, but I always find the heat that the stove produced wasn't that good. 3 years ago I started using more pinewood and the that produced a lot more heat, but it also resulted in a vaporized cumbuster and a broken pivot bypass plate. And I also know now a broken baffle.
Since the last 2 years the stove produces much more ashes and also the creosote build up is much more. I have a thatched roof, so I have a spark net on top of the chimney and this nets has to be cleand every 2 months in the burning months.
For me it was time to look for an other woodstove, because it wasn't burning clean anymore. For what I know now is that I was using the stove at the wrong manner and i destroyed the baffle, pivot and combuster due to my way of burning.
I contacted Woodstock and I can still order the new materials, but only the shipping cost will be more than $250. The materials will cost +$400. So I am busy looking for a new baffle in Europe and contacted a lot of suppliers. Still waiting for some to answer.
In the meantime I removed the baffle, so look what the damage is and I could fix it maybe with a metal worker. The baffle is totally overfired and burned, so I know now that this can only be caused by temperatures of around 1000C. So it got really hot inside the stove.
Is there anyway I can still use the stove, while waiting on an afforable replacement (if not then I will buy another stove). Because it isn't possible to place the misvormed baffle back inside. I burned it yesterday without the baffle and it heated rather well. But i don't know if it is safe, because I now have one big fire chamber. For the last 2 years the combuster was already removed and the bypass was open, so in my opinion the baffle didn't do anything anymore. The biggest difference now is that the secondiary air intake on the baffle isn't present anymore and I closed the hole it left with firecord.
What is your opinion?
ps. I attached some pictures of the stove.
My name is Tobsie and I live in The Netherlands in Europe.
I have an older fireview woodstove (build before 1996) which was in the house I bought 7 years ago. I used the stove for the last 7 years each winter and it was used almost everyday in the autumn/winter period (6 months). I always thought it was a dutch stove and the manual I got with the stove was for a non similar model.
When I first started using the stove I cleaned the combuster and closed the bypas when the pipe temp was +100C. This worked ok for 4/5 years, but I always find the heat that the stove produced wasn't that good. 3 years ago I started using more pinewood and the that produced a lot more heat, but it also resulted in a vaporized cumbuster and a broken pivot bypass plate. And I also know now a broken baffle.
Since the last 2 years the stove produces much more ashes and also the creosote build up is much more. I have a thatched roof, so I have a spark net on top of the chimney and this nets has to be cleand every 2 months in the burning months.
For me it was time to look for an other woodstove, because it wasn't burning clean anymore. For what I know now is that I was using the stove at the wrong manner and i destroyed the baffle, pivot and combuster due to my way of burning.
I contacted Woodstock and I can still order the new materials, but only the shipping cost will be more than $250. The materials will cost +$400. So I am busy looking for a new baffle in Europe and contacted a lot of suppliers. Still waiting for some to answer.
In the meantime I removed the baffle, so look what the damage is and I could fix it maybe with a metal worker. The baffle is totally overfired and burned, so I know now that this can only be caused by temperatures of around 1000C. So it got really hot inside the stove.
Is there anyway I can still use the stove, while waiting on an afforable replacement (if not then I will buy another stove). Because it isn't possible to place the misvormed baffle back inside. I burned it yesterday without the baffle and it heated rather well. But i don't know if it is safe, because I now have one big fire chamber. For the last 2 years the combuster was already removed and the bypass was open, so in my opinion the baffle didn't do anything anymore. The biggest difference now is that the secondiary air intake on the baffle isn't present anymore and I closed the hole it left with firecord.
What is your opinion?
ps. I attached some pictures of the stove.
