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  1. We have had loads of trouble with a downward-pointing socket at the join with the stove collar. This was put in by a local installer, replaced in the same way by another local installer. Also the man at the Supra helpdesk agreed that the first pipe should go around the outside, rather than in the inside, of the collar. This seems very unsatisfactory to me because it allows the tar to run out of the joint onto the top of the stove, instead of into the stove to be reburnt. The Supra Alsace collar is 150mm external and 147 internal, so we had to get a reducer to go into 147 mm. I wonder if Supra stoves are unusual in this respect - does anyone else have similar trouble with them?
  2. ... and I fully concur with Nick because I've just done that, and it's cured my immediate problem. For the longer term I need to find a way of reducing the amount of tar generated, but for now it all runs back into the stove to be reburned and we've got rid of the terrible smell. The tar is actually quite corrosive - earlier on it caused a hole to appear in one of our pipes at the seam, which allowed (poisonous?) gasses to escape. We used some of that silvery Scotch tape as a temporary fix for that.
  3. No - haven't checked the spare, but the boot was locked still, and you need to open it to get to the spare - so hoping all is ok there. We're back in the UK now for a couple of weeks, so will check next time. Shan't say where the car is now parked, in case the wrong person has reads this! It was rather sad actually, the security guards took us to a small car park behind the flying school where they had 4 cars waiting to be scrapped (hence spare wheel nuts for us) - all English. They said they had contacted the UK families but all 4 cars belonged to people who had died, and the families had asked the airport security guards to dispose of the cars.
  4. A long-shot, but it would be most appreciated if anyone can give me any information which would enable me to thump the scumbag that stole the front off-side wheel-nuts from my elderly (French reg) Peugot 205 at Poitiers Airport sometime in December. Why the hell should anyone want to steal 4 wheel nuts, and leave a wheel (with a nearly new tyre on it) propping up the bodywork? Anyway, full marks to the 2 kind-hearted security guards, who helped us out of the jam on New Years day!
  5. OK. I'm now a few weeks older and a little wiser about wood burning stoves. I have cured the immediate problem by replacing the fixed pipe with a new one with a reducer at the stove end. This means that the pipe now fits inside the stove flange, not around the outside of it. The tar which runs down the flue now runs into the stove to be burnt away rather than out of the pipe over the top of the stove, which used to give us the dreadful smell. I quite agree that the tar should not be there in the first place, but I believe it is caused by the fact that we only use the stove one week in 5, and in the intervening 4 weeks the inside of the flue pipe gets damp from the sometimes foggy atmosphere, so when we light it again the smoke and dampnesss combine to produce tar. After this experience the advice I would now give is that a stove like the Supra Alsace (and probably other Supras) is not suitable for occasional use through the winter months. This is because the flue pipe fits over, not into, the stove outlet and you are liable to get my problem. I suspect Supra is unusual in this respect because I have seen many stoves where the flue pipe is designed to fit into the stove outlet so my problem would not occur. If anyone is interested in the numbers, the stove outlet is 150 external, 147 internal. My flue pipe is 150 and my new reducer goes from 150 to 147 - perfect fit. The female top of the flue, where it joins to the male flexible liner, is 153.
  6. Retread ... Thanks. I was coming round to this view myself. The stove outlet is 150mm and I think my pipe, which fits over it, is probably 153mm. I therefore need something which 153mm slides into and which in turn slides into my 150mm stove outlet. Sounds like a female to male adapter? I can't get your link to work at the moment and I'm finding it difficult to find technical details about Supra stoves, or suppliers of bits, despite liberal googling of words like 'adaptateur' and 'raccordement'. However, I have found something  on a Castorama site, where they seem to sell an AURA stove with an adaptor which could be what I need ... http://www.castorama.fr/store/CatalogueDirecte/poele-bois-contemporain/p-categorie_6606-casto_product-PRDm990089.htm so, a trip to Castorama maybe. Thanks again - and to Nick Clarke for the supportive e-mails behind the scenes!
  7. Thanks for all the advice. From what people say it looks like we have male-female problems with our pipe joint, probably a worn-out liner and an unpleasant legacy from 3 years of bad wood-burning habits. I have constructed a letter to the installer to get his opinion and will keep the Forum posted as we progress. Thanks again.
  8. Oh dear! I thought one thing that was ok was the liner. No sign of tar running down the outside of it , no  smoke in the space between the liner and chimney, no problem with the fire drawing .. but I'll add it to my list of potential woes - sounds like it could be near the end of its life so may was well replace that as well. Heigh ho. Many thanks for the information.
  9. If it's a resinous smell that gets in your throat and wakes you at 2 am when the wood burner's on low, you may have a similar problem to mine - I have a thread running alongside yours on this subject. If you see black treacly stuff anywhere on top of the stove I'm afraid you've got my problem - hope you haven't!
  10. Many thanks for your suggestions. I shall probably go for Rockwool and the most suitable plasterboard I can get. Rockwool's French web-site has given me the addresses of some local shops that stock it.
  11. Finally managed to get back onto the forum, it all looks very different now - very smart! Can anyone advise me on the most efficient insulation material I can use for sound proofing? We have a new bathroom, with the soil pipe running down through the sitting room, so I now need to box in the pipes & insulate. Thanks,
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