Ecosy Stoves has unveiled a set of new installer and chimney sweep-friendly features, starting with the Elk range and with more to follow.
If you fit or sweep wood burning stoves for a living, you'll know that the details that make your day easier rarely make it onto the marketing photos. These minor but sensible changes help to make Ecosy Stoves genuinely better to install, service and live with. Here's what's new and why it matters.
In short: two practical upgrades aimed squarely at the trade, a split baffle that lets you sweep the chimney through the stove without unbolting anything, and a pre-drilled draught reading point on the flue collar so you can take a manometer reading without risking a crack or a voided warranty. Both are designed to save time on install day and every service visit for years afterwards.
On most wood burners, the baffle (the plate that sits inside the top of the firebox and directs heat and smoke) is bolted in place. To sweep the chimney properly, or to swap the flue collar, you'd normally have to unbolt it, wrestle it out, and hope you don't damage the seal putting it back.
The new Elk stoves use a split baffle. The plate is in two halves, so you can simply lift the top half off, sweep the chimney up through the stove, and change the flue collar if you need to, with no unbolting at all.
Why does that help?
Faster sweeping. Your chimney sweep can access the flue through the stove in seconds rather than dismantling components.
No unnecessary seal changes. Because nothing is unbolted, there's no risk of disturbing or damaging the baffle seal, so no fiddly reseal every time the stove is serviced.
Kinder over the stove's lifetime. This is a benefit that keeps giving, every sweep visit for the next decade or more is quicker and lower-risk.
It's a small change to the design, but one that installers appreciate on day one and chimney sweeps appreciate for years to come.
To commission a stove correctly, an installer needs to take a draught (draft) reading, a measurement of the flue's pull, taken with a manometer probe, to confirm the chimney is drawing within the manufacturer's specified range. Traditionally, that means drilling a small test hole into the flue collar or flue pipe to insert the probe.
The problem? Plenty of installers won't drill the flue collar. Drilling cast components risks cracking them, and a crack can void the stove's warranty, not a gamble anyone wants to take on a brand-new install.
So, working directly with Ecosy Stoves, we've solved it: the Elk range now comes with a pre-drilled hole through the flue collar, complete with a grub screw already in place to seal it. Take your reading, replace the grub screw, done, no drilling, no cracking, no warranty worries.
We've gone one step further, too. Our flue pipe listings are matched to line up with the pre-drilled hole in the stove. So:
Buy your flue pipe from us and everything lines up out of the box, there's no drilling required at all.
Prefer your own flue? No problem. The pre-drilled hole in the collar is still there, so your installer simply drills through the flue pipe to match, and drilling flue pipe is far easier and lower-risk than drilling the collar.
Either way, the awkward, warranty-threatening part of commissioning is taken care of.
We don't believe good stoves need reinventing every year. We believe in listening to the people who actually handle these stoves, the installers on their knees in someone's front room and the sweeps returning to service them, and making steady, thoughtful improvements that make their work easier.
The split baffle and the pre-drilled draught point are exactly that: modest, practical changes that respect the trade's time and protect the customer's warranty. We've partnered with Ecosy Stoves to bring these features to the Elk range first, and we expect to see them rolled out across more models in the near future. When they help both the installer and the customer, everybody wins, and that's the kind of innovation we're committed to.
What is a split baffle on a wood burning stove? A split baffle is a baffle plate made in two halves rather than one bolted piece. On the Ecosy Elk range, you can lift the top half off to sweep the chimney through the stove and change the flue collar without unbolting anything or disturbing the seal.
Can you sweep a chimney through the stove on the Ecosy Elk range? Yes. Thanks to the split baffle design, a chimney sweep can lift off the top half of the baffle and sweep straight up through the stove, with no need to remove bolted components.
Why don't installers like drilling the flue collar? Drilling the flue collar to take a draught reading risks cracking the component, which can void the stove's warranty. The Elk range avoids this with a pre-drilled test hole and a grub screw already fitted.
What is a draught reading point on a stove? It's a small, sealable hole used to insert a manometer probe and measure the flue's draught during commissioning, confirming the chimney is drawing within the manufacturer's specified range. On the Elk range it comes pre-drilled, so no on-site drilling of the collar is needed.
Do I need to buy the flue pipe from you? No. Buy your flue pipe from us and it lines up with the pre-drilled hole for a no-drill install. Use your own flue and the collar hole is still there, your installer just drills through the flue pipe to match, which is quick and low-risk.
Take a look at the Ecosy Elk range and our matched flue pipe options, designed to line up straight out of the box. If you're in the trade and you'd like to know which models these features are coming to next, get in touch, we're always happy to help.
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