Wood Burning Stove Rope: Replacing the rope on your woodburner

Find the wood burning stove rope you need to keep your stove working efficiently.

Wood burning stove rope

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.

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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.

  1. 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

Evergreen Stove Rope

Mazona Stove Rope

10mm door rope and 6mm glass rope is recommended for all Mazona Stoves.

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.

19 thoughts on “Wood Burning Stove Rope: Replacing the rope on your woodburner

  1. Hi Adam,
    I have a Fox Hunter Stove and the Rope is going around the glass panels. What rope do I need please?

    Many thanks,
    Ted Varley.

  2. Hi Adam

    1. Mine’s a Firefox 8 from the Gallery collection. I bought a couple from you in about 2012. I’ve checked the rope and it seems OK, possibly a bit flat. Should I replace it as when closed, the flames don’t die down as quickly as they used to, even though the top and bottom air intakes are closed and fully tightened?

    2. Different subject: I’ve just built a wooden, insulated garden house (glorified shed) which will need heating. Do you have cheap, smallest possible, stove which will take logs a bit smaller than the Firefox? It’s about 30 m3

    3. In the house I need a light tunnel approx. 8′ to go through the first floor landing (pantiled roof). Can you help on this?

    Thanks, John

  3. Hi , i have masons rocky, purchased from yourselves, i need new rope. I saw an earlier link above but it has different thicknesses, which do i need 6mm or 8mm, i can measure for length just need to know size

    • Hi Clive

      6mm rope for the glass seal and 10mm rope for the door seal are the recommended sizes for the Mazona Newport.

      Thanks,

      Gr8Fires

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