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I hope you are HETAS registered Luxo - even my heating engineer friend had to get his (second) multi-fuel stove installed by a HETAS registered "expert"! The annoying thing was that my friend had to sort the chimney as the HETAS bloke couldn't work out why the liner wouldn't go in!
The HETAS bloke also did my stove last autumn and it was a much bigger job than either of us expected - not just a matter of shoving a flue liner in and a bit of vermiculite board around the fire!
Kevin - I guess the next stage will be to put reclining front seats in and make yourself a passion wagon
My reading of the text is that as a non residential or commercial building the building regs don't apply (the garage is at the bottom of the garden much the same as a greenhouse or shed ) but obviously common sense says you need to get it safe, the stove obiously won't be accedited to any requirment but it will have a sealed flue so all exhaust gasses will be vented outside, and the door will be sealed, the air will enter through a adjustable vent near the bottom (basically I am copying a comercially available stove). There is plenty of ventillation (big gap under the garage door and vents in the roof plus a host of other drafts). I do a have copy of the regulations so will apply the parts which makes sense for this application, the garage being all masonary with a concrete floor solves many of the problems in the regs.
If we ever sell the place i would only take a few minutes to rip the fire out and any issue would be solved so I am not too worried about this
I think the chimney could be a bit higher but we will see how the fire draws and go from there, it would not be the end of the world to add 3 or 4 courses of brick to it.
Yes I did think now the back seat folds down, if I made the front seat rotate with a few cushions to level things out you could sleep in it at a push. (I can't see my wife agreeing to go on holiday in it though so I think we will be sticking to hotels).
tractorman wrote:I hope you are HETAS registered Luxo -
You don't have to be HETAS registered to install it, but it does need to be signed off either by a HETAS engineer or the building regulations inspector - which is what we planned to do. Talking to the BR inspector, turns out it's simpler to get a HETAS engineer to check/test the installation and he will then issue a certificate, and the inspector will accept that as part of the overall project compliance certificate. So we're going to do that - will be in the next 2 - 3 weeks actually.
I like the idea of a woodburner in a garage. After all, I spend enough time in there!
Cheers!
Some people are like Slinkies - they serve no useful purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them downstairs.
I agree about not needing HETAS to install the fire, but my heating engineer friend had a phone call last summer from a woman who wanted her stove "certified" as the firm who installed it weren't (and aren't) registered. Nobody would do it as things like the blastplate needed to be checked - and some need to have chunks of plaster removed so that they can be assessed (and loose vermiculite/insulation falls from above). The woman had ticked a box on the house-selling form to say that the fire had been fitted since regs came in and then couldn't sell the house without the certification! If she's ticked the "no" box, she'd have got away with it! As my heating engineer friend only does oil fired stuff, he couldn't help either.
I confess that I did intend to install my own stove (I had the chance of a cheap one from my friend - Mates' rates with discount!). Then I read the regs about HETAS and my friend told me that story, so I bit the bullet and, in hindsight, I'm glad I did. I bought a more suitable stove for less than my friend got for the Franco Belge one that he offered me, so we were all pleased!
I agree that a fire in the garage would be good (unless you are spraying paint). A friend down the road bought a cheap Machine Mart stove and some decent pipe for a chimney. It makes a heck of a difference; it's only a pity he can't get on with the Starion that lives there!
Note - "cheap Machine Mart"": I know it's an unlikely thing to see in a sentence, but all things are relative!
I am looking forward to a bit of winter warmth, using electric fires etc has cost me a fortune in the past.
As you say I will have to be carefull what is being sprayed around and when working on fuel systems etc but it is no different to welding or using blowlamp to strip paint.
We did look at a log burner in the house a couple of years ago but we don't have a chimney and the cost of the double lined flue up the side of the house, the need to remove the plasterboard and insluation around the area (it's a modern dry lined 2 floor extension I built 10 years ago) etc made it ridiculous, I was advised you can fit it yourself under building regs and pay for their inspections etc but this adds even more cost , in total for materials and inspection fees we were looking at 4 to 5 grand, so we ended up fitting a log effect electric fire!
It does seem with al the regulations that they are pretty difficult to enforce and unless you screw up and kill someone the only chance of getting casught is when you sell it, electrical and gas work is even worse because unless you claim the house was re-wired when you sell it nobody knows when it was done and it does not even come up when selling the house.
Mixed and layed a ton of concrete foundations first thing which meant I could not do anything else on the garden so spent the day on the minor.
Firstly we took the door off and then the wing, revealing a whole load more rust (pretty much what I expected). I then made and welded in a new section of floor /sill bottom and a few small patches to the boxing plate, I didn't quite finish as I ran out of gas.
I also finaly got to try out the sandblasting pressure pot, which seems to work pretty well.
Well done Kev. I can tell that you are one of those heroic types that think nothing of turning a pile of iron oxide and a box of parts back into beautiful cars!
You have also convinced me that As I am NOT of the heroic type, the Minor down the road is not for me. Especially as your Minor pictured early in your thread actually looks better than the one down the road!
Thats what catches people out with minors, slap 4 decent wings on and they look prettty sound but they rot from the inside out and then you have all the previous "to MOT standard"(i.e. slap a big patch over all the rot) repairs to deal with.
You may be able to insure the herald for your daughter, one of the insurers was doing a specific scheme for 17 year olds.
I looked at adding my eldest to the Herald policy but they all said that the car had to be registered in her name and that is just not going to happen!
My Eldest can drive my Company car as will my youngest when she is old enough. So for the moment, when she is home from Uni she can have that and I will just have to drive the Herald into work. Win Win situation!
My Mum gave her Daewoo to the girls to learn to drive on shortly before she died so will get that back on the road next for the eldest and then sort her out something (Hopefully classic!) when my youngest needs the Daewoo.
Good luck with the Minor. I'm looking forward to the next instalment.
Been in Belgium for work for the last week so not much done on the cars, I bought some bits for the mx5 (new gearshift gaiters a big tin of waxoil and a fog light switch) mot is due on 9th august and we are on holiday the last couple of weeks in july so I need to get a move on sorting the fog light and leaking damper plus anything else I can find.
On the minor I managed to make a new end for the centre x member and fit it, just need to cut the slot for the torsion bar add a strip to the bottom and plug weld to the floor.
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Next up will be the front floor / sill bottom which I am completely replacing. Then I will move up the a pillar.
