Wood burning stoves

[aleach1728]

One name "CLEARVIEW" !!

 

We bought an old cottage on a cold and drafty hill some years ago all my neighbours recomended the clearview my wife didn't like the way they looked and I didn't like the price so we bought a Villager log burner instead . It was huge burned loads of fuel and I was forever cleaning the door glass.

 

Five years on we gave in sold the Villager and bought a 5KW Clearview as we should have done from the start!!! Yes it costs a lot but they seem to run on hardly anything I am hoping my log pile will see me through the winter (Thanks Steve for splitting it) and kicks out so much heat we have at times had to open the windows!

 

The heat warms the house brilliantly our downstairs is open doors between the Lounge Dinning room and Kitchen and just before bed time we open the hall door to allow all the heat to rise to the bedrooms its great. Oh and I have only cleaned the door glass once since purchase my fault as I hadn't read the instructions and smoked the glass since then no probs.

 

NOTE: They do recommend connecting the stove to flue pipe as opposed to an open chimney I thinks its about the draw required. So this could add an additional cost to the project.

 

Highly recommend one to anyone. They have a lovely showroom in Ludlow (lovely town) they also have some really nice new oak furniture to look at whilst your there.

 

P.S. I promise I am not on commision!

 

I don't want to pay big money for a quality stove really because the house will be up for rental in a few years so I'm after the best budget stove I can find so I can save some money and put it towards the rest of the house, I also have to buy the flue pipe and all the bits and pieces to go with it and that will cost me around £300ish

[log_hauler]

I have two wood burning stoves in my house so that the downstairs is covered. Heat from burners doesn't travel well unless you have lots of people traffic to push the air about so heating upstairs doesn't work, well not in my house and the others I have had anyway.

 

I know the French rig up hot air systems so that heated air gets pushed to the upstairs, might be worth looking into how they do this.

 

 

I sometimes aim a small electric fan at the side/back of the woodburner in our lounge. Circulates the hot around the ground floor a treat!

 

PS the small stove in the lounge is a Charnwood Country 4, a quality UK made stove about £480 on E-bay

 

Country 4 - Our smallest Antique Effect Wood Burning stove

 

Edited November 18, 2010 by log_hauler