STOVES

Here,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...wood-burning-stove-leaks-carbon-monoxide.html

 

Hi Pete,
In my last house I had loads of ground and plenty of wood for a stove.
A big oak tree that came down in a storm kept us going for years.
We had acres of scrub willow and oak which fuelled the stove.

Not everyone has that - and I don't have it now.
But nearly everyone around here has a fire or a stove.
We buy the logs from a log and coal merchant.

I'm not sure how the price works out in relation to just putting the gas central heating on.
All I know is that I like it better - great heat, great light,great smell, great look.
I don't care if I have to clean the ashes out twice a week.
But I can see why some people just like to push the button.

 

I grow most of mine in a seed sprouter on the window sill.

 

We have a gas stove in the living room, which we havent turned on yet, my husband does all the cleaning and maitnence on it, as well as the furnace, but its getting cool here, so i would imagine that in the next couple of weeks, the stove will go on.

 

We have a French wood-burning fire here with a 5 meter stack (tall ceilings). We far prefer it to our coal fires in the UK, much cleaner and nicer smelling (we use pure cork oak which is very dense). We have no other heat in the house.

 

Very interesting about everybodies stoves.
I don't use mine as my main form of heating - I have gas central heating but I do love to light the stove on those truly miserable days and really cold nights.
It's just a completely different thing from a radiator.

I grew up in a house where the stove was the heating, the hot water, the cooking.
I wouldn't want to go back to those days.
I love my stove but there are times when I just want to push the button - with the stove as the icing on the top.

 

Here you go, warm your hands up on ours!!:gnthb:



Now throw another log on and pass the marshmallows!

Actually we are a bit greedy and have two. With help, I installed them both last year.

Even with five of us, It took approx 2hrs to get the liner down on the first one. I had to make holes all the way down the breast and feed it inches at a time as it was so tight in the cobelled section.

 

WOW!!!! What a lovely fire!!!! I would LOVE one of these!!!:wuvu:

 

Digressing.

If you just want to sit out on the patio with some friends and keep warm on a cold day, an excellent form of space heater is an old stainless steel washing machine drum, (the ones with the perforated holes) sat on its flywheel with some scrap wood burning in it. Boy does it chuck out some heat!

 

Oi, Global warming DH. Is that just you ? :dh:

 

Great pic EddieJ. Very similar to mine. Love it.

JWK - spoke to my daughter about the installation charge.
It was £1000 to put the stainless steel flue up through a single storey building, then she had the cost of making the hearth and buying the stove.
She got a ton of logs thrown in for free.

 

Here is our gas stove........very toasty in the winter..