Review of Firebelly FB1 stove
Looks Great with some poor design ideas.
I purchased a Fire Belly FB1 Double Sided Single Door stove on a bit of a wim. It was being sold as new by a reputable dealer but had a tiny bit of cosmetic damage so I got it for a good price.
All I can say is I'm glad I didn't pay full money for it. It looks really nice but is clearly built to a price. The biggest issue is the design and construction of the bottom air inlet control. The way it's constructed means it can never be truly shut. Other stoves offer far better control for different flue temps etc. It's basically really difficult to find the sweet spot in the burn. It's either running away with itself or not getting enough air. Somehow really difficult to tune compared to other stoves. You should be able to completely shut the air off with a modern stove but the design means the controls leak like crazy. Very disappointing. I guess the kind of people that buy a stove like the FB1 are more interested in how it looks rather the how efficiently it burns.Stove expert replied: It is not good practice to shut the air off to any stove completely and there should be air passing through it to enable combustion to occur. I am sure with practice you will fine tune the air control to get a good rate of burn, good heat output and efficiency of fuel.
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