Can you also burn just wood on the multi fuel Ash pan with air supply turned off or would I need to take the grate out each time to burn. Thanks

Not to run a multi fuel stove as such but in a 2008 build yes. You need an air inlet to the room for the stove to work well and a direct air intake is a good way to do that.

@Suffolk Stove Installations thank you. I do have a cut out in the floor with a cover over it allowing air through it works well enough for the wood burner so hopefully okay for coal

Yes. The firebricks protect the metal body of the stove. You're likely to damage the stove without them.

@@StoveInstallations hi.ok thanks for that,can I use vermiculite ones? TIA

@74 quo depends on the stove and what it originally had in place. If there were compressed vermiculite bricks in there then yes. If the bricks were concrete or similar then no.

Hi, Either of those stoves (and a lot more other stoves) will be fine to use a pan on top of to heat food. The food won't be in contact with the fuel inside the stove so you won't be contaminating your food with toxins. Smokeless coal is VERY corrosive to the flue liner though. Your liner will last considerably less time if you burn coal.

Yes. Once the kindling and first fuel load is well alight and the flue has established a good strong draw.

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If it's a Little Wenlock Classic, it's multi fuel.

@@StoveInstallations yes it is , it says smoke exempt wood stove on the instructions.

@@aytonbob I see. That's a different thing. It's a multi fuel stove BUT it's exempt from the UK DEFRA rules for burning wood in a smoke controlled zone. Any stove which isn't exempted from the rules (as demonstrated in product testing) can't burn wood fuel in a smoke controlled zone.

@@StoveInstallations thanks very much

The difference is that they don't differentiate and therefore many stoves are being used very inefficiently.

The vast majority of people who have "woodburning" stoves actually have multi-fuel stoves.

That's one of the few exceptions to this general rule Dave. The tech spec on that stove tells you it's there to get the stove going (it's easier to get a fire lit when there's air running THROUGH the firebed from beneath) but that "Primary air" should close once the firebed is established. If you don't, you'll burn away the ember fire bed and the stove won't burn wood in the best way.

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It won't harm the base brick, the coal / smokeless simply wouldn't burn properly.

I have very successfully burnt a mixture of wood and coal in a wood burner over the last couple of decades, with no effect on the stove. The secret is to always have an ash bed on the base of the fire and always have a mixture of wood and coal, keeping the coal up in the wood above the bed of the fire. I generally use a mixture of bituminous nz west coast coal which has a high heat value and very low ash but which will not smoulder overnight and ohai sub bituminous which is slightly lower in heat value, ashier but retains hot coals overnight. Both coals have very low sulphur contents. The only downside to not having a grate is in removing the ash, which when it is hot is very fluid and dusty, but is not a problem when cold, or simply use a shop vac to vacuum up the dust raised in the air and of course a steel bucket to carry the ash. It goes without saying to only use dry wood

@@kevinrogan9871 Bamb just can’t get NZ coal here in Guernsey 🇬🇬.

As long as its a well built, precisely made stove which seals correctly you'll be able to burn wood on either. Obviously, if you want to burn smokeless fuel then you need a multi fuel stove.

Hi John, I'm so sorry I haven't answered your question sooner. Burning fossil fuel of any kind generates a very harsh and corrosive soot (by comparison to wood burning soot) so the short answer is yes. Coal soot is even more corrosive than smokeless fuel soot so its a double yes. The worst of the worst is the very oily, tarry coal that you can buy (often cheaply). I've known of two 904 grade liners from good, reputable manufacturers, that I've installed to corrode through in around 5 years!!!! ( they should last 20 years). Both customers were burning coal.

Thanks, a good concise answer.