We do. It went off last night(I slept through it) OH got up to deal with it an discovered that depending on the order and duration of flashing lights either the batteries are dead or the unit has reached end of life. Ours was indeed dead and a suitable funeral was held this morning.
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How about a badger?
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This is very much a thing.
Our room sealed pellet burner uses a concentric flue; exhaust gases use the central 80mm flue - incoming air uses the outer ‘sleeve’. The old chimney is used for most of the run i.e. concentric flue to base of chimney, then just the 80mm exhaust pipe runs up the centre, with the clean air coming down inside the old structure, then a clever cap at the top keeps the flue gases away from the fresh air.
In other words, it’s a balanced flue system.
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Viking type funeral
Safer due to the fan built in presumably so it can’t back draft. Same as a gas boiler.
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When we had our chimney lined, they fitted a vent which draws air from the space around the liner. This ofcourse means the chimney must not be sealed around the liner at the top. I have no idea if this is legal but we don’t use the burner now anyway, (got fed up with the whole performance of sourcing wood, cutting, stacking, drying, lighting, cleaning, disposing of ash) We are now heated indirectly by nuclear fission.
edit to say just read Badgers post, similar thing but I don’t think we have a ‘clever cap’ on ours.
Sadly untrainable I fear…
Looking at new woodburners, I’ve always fancied one of those small cylindrical Godins - the enamelled sort. I’ve just found one on offer at half price - it’s only 2499 euros 
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Yes, Angela. Love those enamelled little Godin wood burners I did see one not long ago for a very reasonable price but we have nowhere to put one. If I had known I could have bought it for you!
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Thank you! Next time one of us might be lucky!
We’ve got a similar set-up, but because the stove is on the middle floor and reinstating the original narrow mediaeval chimney wouldn’t have been legit, we were able to simply knock a hole through the metre thick wall behind the stove
So agree! I wanted one for the kitchen in our cottage when we were restoring it, but sadly that idea got thrown out. Not just the price of the stove, but getting the chimney up through the bedroom floor above and out through the pitched roof above. All got prohibitively expensive.
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Another one of these laws which no one can check on. I also have a wood burning stove and no vent. It would mean drilling into the chimney, through the brick and stones? then letting in the cold air? Sounds complicated to me.
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I wish I shared your enthusiasm, it’s starts with a law about having your chimney swept once a year then there is a bit more training for sweeps on how to spot things like no additional ventilation and then you get a prohibition notice put on your heat source until you either remedy the situation or change to a different heat source.
Not necessarily the chimney a room based ventilation could serve
The amount of air admitted by an air brick or ventilator is very small, usually you would not notice a draught, especially if the vent can be placed near the fireplace or stove so that the airflow does not cross the room.
Having fresh air coming into your house is good for your health in any case!
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Depending of course on the temperature it’s coming in at, -10c is not so nice so making it close to the wood burner is a good idea or pre heating. If you can prove the house is drafty enough to not need it then you’ll probably do badly on that energy guess sheet they use. Just can’t win.
Yes I think that’s the best plan if it’s possible, and you can’t have one of those fancy poeles with a built-in air supply system.
It is also a requirement to have two, high and low, air sources if you have any naked flame devices in your home, gas hobs for example.
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Is that the €700 sheet that tells you the €50K you need to spend to move your 200 year old stone farm house from an F to a D and utterly destroy its character in the process?
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