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That website has the feel of knowing what it is on about! I am beginning to build a spec for the stove I want to buy, at last! I wonder if metrication will ever happen... Spanish plumbing? English wood sizes (don't think we are fooled by 1.2m and 2.4m lengths! Engineering does its best but...

Could you give me the website reference, Tony? Thanks Patrick

Those look very attractive. Like the look of the Fireview Slim 14Kw with, say, a 20k btu tank. And there is a Portugese dealer listed. Sadly as far away as you can get in this country and I strongly suspect is an ex-pat Brit. I'll send him an enquiry... Wood around here comes in trailer...

OK that sent me rushing to Wikipedia... But then I looked at Stovesonline (who were the company theat gave me the 12Kw and 8Kw figures) and saw the prices! They are way outside my budget and I couldn't see that I would reach payback in my lifetime. Nice thought, though. Patrick

I think we probably have very different wood stock here... This part of Portugal is probably the most densely forested part of Europe and much of it is Oak - and that is what people burn by choice but only after two years drying! One local tells me that I must buy a cast stove "because the...

Thanks for the fast response, Tony. We have been told by a stove retailer that we should have 12Kw for the water and 8Kw for the room. The smallest wood burner with boiler that we have seen so far is 29Kw. The neighbour is putting the same one in his house and reckons it will need about 3 Kg of...

Retired couple from UK settling in North Portugal for 3 months in Autumn and 3 months in Spring each year. 100 year old house in the mountains. Needs a lot of renovation!

We are just starting to renovate an old apartment in North Portugal (Caminha area). Two people. 1 shower room. I bedroom. 1 lobby/study. All else open plan. Currently has elderly multipoint which does enogh for kitchen tap but not shower. No other heating of any kind. We want to install a good...