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Wood Burning Stove Rope: Replacing the rope on your woodburner
Find the wood burning stove rope you need to keep your stove working efficiently.
Stove rope is an inexpensive but important part of any wood-burning stove. The rope inside your stove plays a crucial role in keeping your stove operating at maximum efficiency — and in keeping you safe. Let’s take a look at why its so important, the role it plays and how to replace your stove rope.
In this article
- What is stove rope?
- Why do I need to replace my wood burning stove rope?
- How often should I replace wood burning stove rope?
- How to replace wood burning stove rope
- What size of wood burning stove rope do I need?
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Finding the right stove rope for your woodburner
– Arada Stove Rope
– Evergreen Stove Rope
– Mazona Stove Rope
– Arizona Stove Rope
– Stratford Stove Rope
– Villager Stove Rope
– Invicta Stove Rope
– Dimplex Stove Rope - Buy your replacement wood burning stove rope
What is stove rope?
Stove rope is the rope you’ll find on the inside of the door of any woodburner. You’ll usually find a length of rope running around the edge of the door to form a seal against the stove body. Another length of rope will be found around the glass to create a seal there.
Why do I need to replace my wood burning stove rope?
Wood burning stove rope plays an important role in sealing your stove that it can operate safely and efficiently. Its position on the inside of the door means the stove rope often bears the brunt of intense heat and flames.
Although the rope is made to withstand these conditions, it is a consumable part and will deteriorate over time. Your stove rope could become squashed, frayed or completely broken. When this happens, the stove rope is no longer performing its function correctly.
If stove rope isn’t forming a tight seal around the door, excess air will be able to get into your stove. This will make your stove less efficient and cause you to burn through fuel faster. It can also lead to your stove overfiring — operating at too high a temperature and potentially causing damage to your stove.
As well as too much air getting into the stove, there is also an increased risk of smoke escaping in the opposite direction. The seal formed by the stove rope helps to keep smoke and gases inside the stove. If the rope is squashed or broken, smoke can escape into your room. When there’s a risk of that happening it’s time to replace your stove rope.
How often should I replace wood burning stove rope?
How often you need to replace your wood burning stove rope will depend on how frequently it is broken. You can minimise this by operating your stove efficiently and within the recommended temperatures (a stove pipe thermometer can help you to do this), and keeping the door closed when the stove is in use.
There’s a very easy method for checking whether you need to replace your stove rope. Simply trap a sheet of paper in the stove door. If you can easily remove the paper from the closed door without it ripping, the seal isn’t tight enough and the stove rope needs to be replaced.
As part of your stove service, remove any damaged rope and the glue that was holding it in place.
- Fit replacement stove rope
Replace the worn stove rope with new rope to ensure your stove functions efficiently. Buy replacement stove rope here. Use stove glue to hold the rope in place, then refit the glass and, if it was been removed, refit the door.
What size of wood burning stove rope do I need?
Wood burning stove rope comes in different thicknesses. This is usually 6mm, 8mm. 10mm, 12mm or 20mm. You can consult your stove manual or check with your stove manufacturer to see the correct size of rope for your stove.
You then just need to choose the correct length of stove rope, which you can easily work out with a tape measure.
How to replace wood burning stove rope
Replacing your wood burning stove rope is very easy. The first step is to remove your worn or frayed stove rope. Also remove any of the glue that was holding the old rope in place that is stuck to your stove. Next, apply fresh stove rope seal glue to your stove, then fix the new stove rope in place
Finding the right stove rope for your woodburner
Simply choose your stove from the list below to get the right wood burning stove rope from the list below. If your stove isn’t included the list, give us a call on 0121 271 0221 and we’ll do our best to get it for you.
Arada Stove Rope
- Arada Acorn View 4
- Arade Acorn 4
- Arada Acorn 5
- Arada Ecoburn 5
- Arada Ecoburn 7
- Arada Ecoburn 9
- Arada Ecoburn 11
- Arada Ecoburn 5 Inset
- Arada Farringdon Small
- Arada Farringdon Large
- Arada Holborn 5
- Arada Holborn 7
- Arada Hoxton 7
- Arada Sherborne Compact
- Arada Sherborne Small
- Arada Sherborne Medium
- Arada Sherborne Large
Evergreen Stove Rope
Mazona Stove Rope
10mm door rope and 6mm glass rope is recommended for all Mazona Stoves.
- Mazona Small Orlando
- Mazona Medium Orlando Double Door
- Mazona Medium Orlando Single Door
- Mazona Large Orlando
- Mazona Ripley 4
- Mazona Ripley 5
- Mazona Ripley 8
- Mazona Rye 5
- Mazona Rye 7
- Mazona Warwick 4
- Mazona Warwick 5
- Mazona Warwick 8
Arizona Stove Rope
Stratford Stove Rope
Villager Stove Rope
Invicta Stove Rope
Dimplex Stove Rope
Thorma Stove Rope
Buy your replacement wood burning stove rope
If you’re ready to buy replacement stove rope, you’ll find various different thicknesses available by the metre in our stove.
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