FAO Snadger

[bobleponge]

And of course anyone else who can help. Snadger I saw your post in "what I did today" and was intrigued by you lighting a woodburner in the greenhouse.
Clearly I am incredibly numb but I cant see how the smoke would escape!!!
I just so happen to have a spare woodburner in my garage and want to get it into the g'house to warm me when I get back.
Do I assume you have taken out a pane of glass, and used some form of inflammable substance for the chimney to go through?
Its never a dumb question if you dont know the answer, although I do feel this one probably is.

[Snadger]

And of course anyone else who can help. Snadger I saw your post in "what I did today" and was intrigued by you lighting a woodburner in the greenhouse.
Clearly I am incredibly numb but I cant see how the smoke would escape!!!
I just so happen to have a spare woodburner in my garage and want to get it into the g'house to warm me when I get back.
Do I assume you have taken out a pane of glass, and used some form of inflammable substance for the chimney to go through?
Its never a dumb question if you dont know the answer, although I do feel this one probably is.

Hi boblesponge

My woodburning stove is a home made affair. There is a photograph on the vine somewhere?
My flue goes through the roof where I took out a pane of glass. The pane was roughly 18" square and in its place I put two roofing slates suitably nibbled out with a pair of pincers to fit around the flue pipe. Slates don't burn and are about the same thickness as the glass.

Necessity is the mother of invention!

PS I can wholeheartedly recommend heating your greenhouse with a woodburning stove...........it is a pleasure to work in on a cold day, you can boil yourself a pan of soup or make tea on it.......and it also gives you a receptacle to get rid of all your combustable rubbish!

[Seahorse]

Pics and more info here:

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tove_5259.html

I aspire to emulate such thrift and invention!!!

[bobleponge]

I knew I had seen that before somewhere. I read every thread before I signed up and that one stuck in my head. Just couldnt remember how it worked, I think I also thought that was in Snadgers shed not a greenhouse. Age is a nasty thing, it really is.
Thanks for the info, I know what I shall be doing when I get home

[nick the grief]

Hmmm .... wonder if I could build one in the polytunnel .....

[SarzWix]

Hmmm .... wonder if I could build one in the polytunnel .....

Yeah, there's the rub for me too - my greenhouse is clad in plastic sheeting, can't see how I could put a flue through it...?!! And putting one in my wooden shed would be asking for combustion I reckon, even if the dodgy floor could take the weight...

[Snadger]

Yeah, there's the rub for me too - my greenhouse is clad in plastic sheeting, can't see how I could put a flue through it...?!! And putting one in my wooden shed would be asking for combustion I reckon, even if the dodgy floor could take the weight...

Use lateral thinking SarzWix!

A small brick built building, 4 foot high BEHIND your greenhouse with the front of the stove opening into the greenhouse but the flue coming outward and upward at the back of the building a respectable distance from the polytunnel.