wood burning stove

[Balenza]

Have a look here. May be of some help to you.

http://www.solidfuel.co.uk/pdfs/design_guide.pdf

The company that you purchase the stove from should be able to recommend an installer .
As I said its not a road I would go down for the novelty of having a decorative pot belly stove in my living room. But its your choice at the end of the day.

 

[JohnD]

I've got a pot belly but I wouldn't call it decorative

 

[oilman]

You don't necessarily need to line the chimney. I'v had a woodburner in for nearly 20 years in a 130 year old chimney, and I ask the sweep the condition each year, and he doesn't see anything to worry about. You just have to burn the wood correctly. Running wet heating from most small woodburners is a dismal failure. Better to get the heat direct.

A woodburner will give LOADS more heat to the room than a fire, and some burners give LOADS more than others.

We have a 5kW burner, no water heating as an immersion heater can do it better, and we don't have central heating. Last winter I used £60 of wood supplemented by a small amount of odds and ends. It kept the downstairs warm, a bit cool in the morning, but sometimes three 6 inch dia logs, 9 inches long was all the heat we needed (and more) for the evening. There was a few days when it got lit at lunch time, then we needed 4 or 5 for the rest of the day.

 

[simond]

Balenza

Whatever your personal observations, a wood burning stove is massively more efficient than an open fire.

If you believe differently based upon your own exhaustive research then so be it, we must all make our own conclusions about your voracity.

OOh by the way you wouldnt get near my place.

Not sure what you mean by this comment, please elaborate.

 

[Lesley Jones]

We are really pleased with our woodburner which was fitted four years ago, we had the chimney lined at the time it was fitted, with a flexible liner. The liner is fixed at the top of the chimney and to the the flue where it enters the chimney from the bottom. Where the flue enters the chimney there is a plate fitted across the remaining opening and the space in the chimney around the outside of the liner is filled with beads of some sort.

We always buy/collect hardwood logs and make sure that they are well seasoned. Silver birch I find works really well as the papery outside bark catches quickly.

£70.00 or so spent on a shedload of logs once a year (usually in the summer) will keep us going. The woodburner will heat the whole house if we leave it going all day, the only trouble is then that you have to wear your bikini if you sit in the room where it is!

As said before, the glass cleans easily with a bit of ash from the cold fire on some damp kitchen roll. A final polish with a piece of dry kitchen roll and good as new.