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We've got a Hunter stove, it can take 15 inch lengths of timber and burn coal as well. Very dry wood, I.e... Carpenters offcuts makes us go from the sublime to the blinking hot and we have to open the patio doors to let the the out as it burns hot and very fast I got the Hunter catalogue when I was looking at stoves - I really liked the design of them, but unfortunately I'm in a smokeless zone here, and Hunter don't make any 'clean burning' models for smokeless zones. The Dove is a nice looker, though - simple but good-looking. It has an image of a dove on a branch cast into each side of the stove (it's a nice solid cast iron - I think the Hunters are the same, aren't they). There's a place up the road from me selling these split logs at £2/bag, but I have a mate who's a builder, who quite often ends up with loads of spare wood at the end of a job. He says that from now on I'm welcome to take it, instead of his simply skipping it. Tomorrow I'm going down to one of his jobs where he's taken out a load of big old solid beams from a house - loads of them. I'll be taking my chain saw and making little oblong logs out of them. Getting a bunker made tomorrow too for my back garden/yard, so hopefully by the end of the day I'll end up with a bunker full of free firewood - a good start to the winter! Spent £60 on a chain saw though, but I won't need to spend that again, of course. Use cola every now and then because coal burns hotter and gets rid of a lot of tar etc on the glass doors. The Dove has quite a cunning design, in that the controllable air inlets for the fire are at the top of the front of the stove, so air is sucked in at the top and travels down the inside of the glass before feeding the fire from beneath. This means that there is a constant stream of air 'washing' the glass and keeping it clean. And all without electrical power! Could never be without the stove, it's wonderful and soothes the fire bug in me as you can keep adjusting it or put rubbish on it. It's alive and a boring regular never changing gas or electric thing would never suffice! I'm going to have the stove running my radiators and hot water cylinder, and a big reason for getting it is to do with my job - I work as an energy officer for my local council, and I'm currently promoting home renewable energy systems - which basically means 'biomass' heating (i.e. log stoves and boilers) for the winter, and rooftop solar thermal collectors to heat water in the summer - which remove the need to use any kind of boiler for half the year. But I must confess that I just really like the idea of having a real fire heating my home - there's nothing quite like it. And if all else fails, I could even cook on it too. Wood fuel - the original, and still the best . . . ! I was chatting to the marketing manager of Morso about doing a promotion, and it turned out he has the same stove as me. He assured me that I would soon 'develop a relationship' with my stove! I can certainly see it happening! Can make the rooms more dirty though, you find more dust on the top of picture rails and curtain tracks if you ever feel obliged to look . My house is still recovering from having a new fireplace built. Dust from that particular job still turns up in all sorts of unexpected places. I think that the extra few particles will be a small price to pay for a cheap, green, warm and homely heating system in my front room :-) Andy http://greencottage.burysolarclub.net |
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