i am thinking of getting a wood burning stove , so if any body on here has one i would like to know the pros and cons , some swear by them and others hate them
wood burning stove
- Thread starter joeby
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We've just got one!
Pro's
1. Lovely and warm and warms more of the house than the gas fire.
2. Cheerful.
3. No hissing gas.
4. You can 'scavenge' wood from a variety of sources - we have a friendly local farmer, and can collect his fallen branches.
5. Other people love to come round and sit in front of it.
6. You can even boil a pan of water or make a stew on the top (ours is a back chimney) if the electric goes off!
Cons:
1. It can be messy
2. No others!
You can tell we like it. It's a modern looking one, with a large self-cleaning front door so you can see plenty of flames, and you can regulate it to give rip-roaring fire, or just a gentle glow! IT'S LOVELY!!!!!!!!!!!
Pro's
1. Lovely and warm and warms more of the house than the gas fire.
2. Cheerful.
3. No hissing gas.
4. You can 'scavenge' wood from a variety of sources - we have a friendly local farmer, and can collect his fallen branches.
5. Other people love to come round and sit in front of it.
6. You can even boil a pan of water or make a stew on the top (ours is a back chimney) if the electric goes off!
Cons:
1. It can be messy
2. No others!
You can tell we like it. It's a modern looking one, with a large self-cleaning front door so you can see plenty of flames, and you can regulate it to give rip-roaring fire, or just a gentle glow! IT'S LOVELY!!!!!!!!!!!
I've actually just walked in the door after helping a friend commision his a new wood burning stove this evening, we bought one last year and our friends have bought the same model for the cottage they are renovating.
What we have is an Esse 'greenswitch" multi fuel wood burning stove and a centraliser. Rather than waste a lot of the heat, the Esse greenswitch incoporates a back boiler that is connected via 28mm copper plumbing pipes to the centraliser box, a gas or oil boiler or aga's heating pipes are also diverted to the centraliser along with flow and return pipes for cenral heating system and hot water tank.
When the woodburner is up and running the centraliser's thermostats turn sof the gas boiler or other central heating boiler and the only cost is your logs or wood if you have to pay for that.
A lovely glow in your room from a woodburner that can have a traditional look door or an ultra modern stainless steel finish and as well as having the whole house heated if you have free wood supply you'll not be paying Britis Gas very much.
The best deal we've both found for the Esse and other woodburners is from www.qualitystoves.co.uk a family run business and the guy to speak to is Richard. We have no links to them apart from being very happy customers. We both got a great price on the whole package of parts including flue liners and chimney cowl and free delivery. These sorts of stoves have a 6-8 week lead time for delivery.
Great product and a good caring supplier.
What we have is an Esse 'greenswitch" multi fuel wood burning stove and a centraliser. Rather than waste a lot of the heat, the Esse greenswitch incoporates a back boiler that is connected via 28mm copper plumbing pipes to the centraliser box, a gas or oil boiler or aga's heating pipes are also diverted to the centraliser along with flow and return pipes for cenral heating system and hot water tank.
When the woodburner is up and running the centraliser's thermostats turn sof the gas boiler or other central heating boiler and the only cost is your logs or wood if you have to pay for that.
A lovely glow in your room from a woodburner that can have a traditional look door or an ultra modern stainless steel finish and as well as having the whole house heated if you have free wood supply you'll not be paying Britis Gas very much.
The best deal we've both found for the Esse and other woodburners is from www.qualitystoves.co.uk a family run business and the guy to speak to is Richard. We have no links to them apart from being very happy customers. We both got a great price on the whole package of parts including flue liners and chimney cowl and free delivery. These sorts of stoves have a 6-8 week lead time for delivery.
Great product and a good caring supplier.
I expect they could be adapted quite easily
But I doubt that your payload allowance would cover the weight of the burner
But I doubt that your payload allowance would cover the weight of the burner
And I suppose that I would have to allow for the weight of the logs as well ........ah well, nice idea while it lasted
Hi
Yes we have one, wouldn’t be without it. As long as you can get a reasonably cheapish supply of wood they are economical. Like the poster above we get a plentiful supply of fallen trees that the farmer leaves in the field that backs onto our house so I just *** over the fence with a chain saw and chop it up. We have ours in the lounge and an open fire in the sitting room. I find the open fire a drag to look after and really quite messy but the log burner is a doddle. We are going to be moving house next year and it my one and only pre-requisite that we can have another in the new house.
Yes we have one, wouldn’t be without it. As long as you can get a reasonably cheapish supply of wood they are economical. Like the poster above we get a plentiful supply of fallen trees that the farmer leaves in the field that backs onto our house so I just *** over the fence with a chain saw and chop it up. We have ours in the lounge and an open fire in the sitting room. I find the open fire a drag to look after and really quite messy but the log burner is a doddle. We are going to be moving house next year and it my one and only pre-requisite that we can have another in the new house.
Thanks for the replies , i did read some where that all the wood has to be dry and that hard wood is better , i liked the bit from ValA about cooking the stew , a friend of mine i visited last Saturday said he puts jacket potatoes in foil in his , and they taste lovely , he also said he stokes his up at night and opens all the doors and in the morning the house is lovely and warm ,
Mel
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We have a very small wood burner. A "bexton bunny". The amount of heat it puts out is amazing. It does prefer dry wood at least until it warms up.
mel
mel
Hi we live in a city, and have a stove in our terrace house, best thing we did. There seem to be plenty of older houses getting renovated, and so plenty of scrap wood available, (just ask the skip owners permission). The stove throws off loads of heat, and so we hardly use our gass fire. We store wood in a garden tool container, in the yard, after it has been cut down to size. The bigger bits are in our garrage. Once the fire is lit, and drawing well, you can manage the heat. The other half loves it, and if we moved house, I would have another one, as the savings of gass etc are worth it. We collect wood throught the year, as once the colder weather hits, it can be eaten up at quite a rate, so a little forward planning is needed. Not too much mess, as wood tends to burn down to a fine ash. Another point is that we use it to burn any unwanted personal letters, so avoiding the need for a shreader!!!
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