Wood burner suspended from ceiling

[mogga]

A friend is Oz spotted this

it's a bit dear! :) Very pretty though and pivots 360° so it can be swivelled around to face different parts of the room.

[Mike2]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:17:16 +0000, mogga hurriedly dipped his quill in the best Quink that money could buy:

Looks rediculous in a minimalistic room like that.

Not very user friendly if the outside gets hot, .. and the ash is bound to drift out when opening the door for emptying, cleaning and loading, which will be a real headache. A convex door will allow smoke to come out when opened.

Mike 2

[Bruce]

Not so pretty when it comes to cleaning it out, however.

[Tim Watts]

Mike2 wibbled on Tuesday 23 February 2010 11:48

And the shag pile rug underneath it.

No, I don't think you're meant to *use* that thing. Maybe light it for odd dinner parties with a couple of fake smokeless "logs". You certainly won't be putting a ton of coal through that for any genuine heating.

[Jules]

Hmm, wonder how that joint's constructed so that it doesn't let smoke out or quickly jam up with debris or seize up with repeated heating/cooling cycles?

(I'm sure it *can* be done, but I'm struggling to think of any kind of burner I've seen where joints aren't rusted / corroded / worn-out / clogged with dirt and debris - which of course is fine when they're not supposed to rotate and remain air-tight!)

cheers

Jules

[Andrew May]

Didn't they install one of these in one of the Grand Designs houses? IIRC it was the white sugar-cube in Bristol.

Andrew

[mike]

Interesting to consider how you rotate it too. Is there an insulated handle on the back? That would spoil the sleek lines, wouldn't it?

Maybe you have to wait for it to cool down, wrap your arms around it and swing it round bodily - like dancing with Ann Widdecombe. Looks nice, though. I mean the fire, not Ann Widdecombe.

[Harry Bloomfield]

If the bottom part overlaps inside the flue (flange), it will not leak smoke.

[Bruce]

I'm sorry, that's just too much to take while I'm eating. :-(

[Owain]

It strikes me that this would be an ideal project for a navy surplus submarine periscope?

One of my fave TV moments is Ann Widdecombe doing the Cheeky Girls number at the end of HIGNFY

Owain

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember mike saying something like:

Proper fire-tenders of the Ancient Order could do it while dancing on rice paper, glasshoppa.

[Jules]

It's the effect of heat and combustion gases I'd be worried about though

- my gut feeling is that the rotating joint will fail (at the very least, seize up) long before the rest of the burner has become unservicable. But then, maybe it's aimed at people with deep pockets who don't care about longevity.

I haven't seen that. I'd go looking, but I'm all out of mindbleach right now.

Anyway, maybe she makes a good wood burner - who knows...

J.

[mogga]

It would. And I think that's mostly the point of it - it looks stunning. Being practical is an afterthought for lots of modern design. I shudder when I see huge open plan rooms on TV design programs.

:)