We love our woodburning stove!
We love our woodburning stove!We moved into our home just over 4 years ago now and we had a wood/smokeless fuel burning stove fitted into the lounge where the horrible gas fire had been.
It looked cute and cosy during the winters, but we're now finding that it's saving us a small fortune in gas!!!!!!!!!! I light it every afternoon and I never put the central heating on. It warms the whole house (two bedroomed terrace with an attic bedroom) and it's certainly saving us money. I take the kids out to hunt for stray logs and wood and we've spent all summer stockpiling smokeless fuel which is cheaper during the summer months! I can recommend one of these and you can also get backboilers on some models so that you have hot water too.
I have thought about converting - but one of my neighbours has a Rayburn running this way, and the gas delivery man drops two large cylinders twice a week - goodness knows how much that costs her? Also, as it runs the water, and heating as well as cooking, the new owners may not be happy if I remove it.
I am considering either solid fuel, or oil, but as we have plenty of wood around the farm, sold fuel may be the better - if dustier, option?
If you convert to propane, investigate the oil company contrats for a tank, it works out a lot cheaper in bulk and the company owns the tank not you, but the tank may need planning permission. The fuel company will be up to speed on this.
Mike Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.
i would really love a wood burner...at the moment we have a really old fashioned 1970s bar gas fire in the lounge will the boiler behind it (baxi)
i keep saying to hubby about opening up the chimney again and having a wood burner didn,t realise you could get wood burners with back boilers..but i probably would need another boiler for the gas rads wouldn,t i ? just waiting for the boiler to go bang..then when needs replacing we could go with a wood burner may bee the boiler is about 38 years old too so..nothing lasts for ever!! tina xx mum to five lovely children, nine gorgeous girls, two adorable cats a bouncey border collie pup and a patient loving hubby xxxxx
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i would really love to have a new wood burner and boiler..i find the fire in the lounge embarressing ..but hubby says it retro!!! but i must admit on a really cold night (like halloween was) we put it on for instant heat (when we could eventually light it as the ignition has gone) it really heat the rooms up but i like the idea of a wood burner heating the whole house without having to put on the gas rads tina xx mum to five lovely children, nine gorgeous girls, two adorable cats a bouncey border collie pup and a patient loving hubby xxxxx
Our wood burner stove is in the basement(where we live mostly)and as we have a low ceiling it gets quite hot. There are no doors in the main body of the house so the hot air rises warming upstairs too...a bit! I get most of my wood from work, so it costs next to nothing to run. We only have bottle gas for the cooker, and that lasts 18 months, so pretty good for fuel bills. Electricity over here is expensive and monopolised , so we do economise there!
Looove chucks!
When walking puppy this morning I bumped into my friend in the village (well, one of my friends I should say - got more than one, honest). She invited me to have a look at her sitting room complete with new wood burner.
I am SOOOO jealous, it looks beautiful, she says it is a bit messy compared to switching the gas or lecky on but, her sitting room looks a really cosy snug for the winter months. http://www.freshstartforhens.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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