Which woodburning stove is the best?

elantan

Hi all... Wonder if anyone can help me, I've been looking at stoves and saw one I like it's the Euroheat Stanford SP 33 which has a cast iron top on it for cooking, the cost is £2,550 for the fire, then I'm £2k for the flue ( a lot of height to get up) with fitting of £1,400 and then there is the price etc of hearths and things ... I was told roughly £6k for everything

Is the Euroheat a good fire? Is it reliable? And a workhorse ?

Do you think that price is ok ?

Thanks in advance

El

ranchero

Check stoves with backburner that will heat your hot water and radiators.

elantan

We were thinking of a water jacket but if we got one whilst we get the government incentive we would loose some I the heat from the room ... So the 10kw fire might only give us 7-8 kW of heat... We need as much heat out of the fire as we can get tbh

elantan

Just to add I have checked what stove .co .uk and they don't have any info on the Stanford only the Harmony range

Can anyone help ?

M0ney

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

I have had no problems with a waterford stanley - easy to use, light, controllable, can burn overnight with coal. Would happily buy from Stanleys again - I think their 10kws would start around 750-1000.

I have a woodburner but have never tried to keep it going through the night, I would really know how but if you can explain how to do it I'd be greatful as it is our only source of heating and would like to keep the house somewhat warm so it's not freezing cold getting up in morning all winter.

Greenfires

If you search back through highrisks posts, I think you might well find he ended up smashing the baffle plate in that one as it wouldn't come out, and then when it wouldn't glue back together, he replaced it with an old Parkray...

rrtt

M0ney wrote: »

I have a woodburner but have never tried to keep it going through the night, I would really know how but if you can explain how to do it I'd be greatful as it is our only source of heating and would like to keep the house somewhat warm so it's not freezing cold getting up in morning all winter.

All you have to do is close the various airvents and stuff it full of fuel. This is usually a matter of trial and error as not only do individual stoves/chimneys vary in how well they draw, but each will also vary according to very local windspeed and direction.

If you end up with unburned fuel, open vent's a wee bit more
If fuel all burned in 2 hrs, close vent/s off a wee bit more!

I've had a Woodwarm Enigma 8 KW single door (which looks like double door) with flat ring for kettle/pot on top for past 4 yrs or so, heats the whole of the downstairs (about 12 feet by 36 ft) and is a dream to light. Burns coal as well as wood. Door glass seems a bit fragile, about to replace for 2nd time, but whole thing does get hard use in every season except summer. Generally great product, very happy with it, replacements available from Devon UK firm who make the stoves. Will be getting 2 more smaller versions from them for new (bigger) house where CH and insulation are much better. I'm not a dealer, and not related in any way to the company btw, just a happy customer

phillic

Does anyone have a Vesta stove?
I am planning a trip to their showroom in Lancashire

Greenfires

rrtt wrote: »

All you have to do is close the various airvents and stuff it full of fuel.

That is by far THE fastest way of blocking your chimney if you're burning wood. If you really have to try and keep the stove in overnight - you need to be loading up a good 40 minutes before you close it down, and then running the stove hard until you go to bed. This will drive off most of the volatiles from the wood and result in much less smoke sitting pretty much still in the chimney (and condensing) when the stove vents are shut. Remember that the only draught up the chimney is going through those vents - if they're all closed the draught is pretty much non-existent.

Williwoodburner

M0ney wrote: »

I have a woodburner but have never tried to keep it going through the night, I would really know how but if you can explain how to do it I'd be greatful as it is our only source of heating and would like to keep the house somewhat warm so it's not freezing cold getting up in morning all winter.

Good video on wood stoves here, with a bit about overnight burning -

http://youtu.be/gLlZ1J75Pqo