Which woodburning stove is the best? 18 January 2012 at 2:05PM in LPG, heating oil, solid & other fuels 196 replies 354.9K views

Gloomendoom

zymotik wrote: »

It does heat our 3 bed 1920’s house without cavity walls allon it’s own (writing this in November), we are well impressed. Very chuffedwith this stove, although we will be buying a bigger version next year andmoving this one to the front room. Mainly due to it being undersized, so may evenbuy another of the same."
Ian

So it heats your house all on its own but you are are buying another, bigger, stove because it is undersized? Make your mind up.

Blatant spam. Reported.

Skulls

This week I removed my flat-top Villager A series wood burner (16kW) and replaced it with a Burley Hollywell 5kW wood burning stove. It's the best move I think I've ever done, in an earlier post I did say that the Villager was good and it is, it's just this Burley is newer and much more economical, according to the spec 89% efficient. I have also installed a cold air feed, although not needed as the fire is only 5kW, but it makes the fire more efficient and I can vouch for this, on a normal fire, if you open your vents, the air going in is already heated and being replaced by cold air from outside.. I have never seen another wood burner that you can connect a cold air supply to, there must be some but just not seen any.

Using the Aldi Eco-logs I'm getting the lounge up to around 24 degrees using one log every 1.5-2 hours. I'm well impressed with the economy and output of this fire. When I get a chance I will post some images. The flame pattern is hypnotic, the first night I sat in front of it for quite some time with a glass or three of wine just watching the flames!

My house is 200 years old next year and the walls are all 2ft thick. The lounge is roughly 110 cubic metres with a single glazed window light at the highest point in the ceiling, soon to be replaced.

I would highly recommend the Burley Hollywell wood burner.

hethmar

zymotik - you arent allowed to advertise on here

Pansy_Potter

I know it is a bit off my original posting about which is the best woodburner, but it is connected with the subject of efficiency.

I have just come across this product "Woodmiser" and have purchased one. At about £10 I thought it worth a shot if it does as it says and according to the website and packaging it has been tested and verified by Cambridge University.

Early days yet, tried it for the first time last night and it did seem to get the wood a hot glowing ember base much faster than usual. Has anyone else tried it? Their website is at http://www.woodmiser.co.uk.

And before anyone says it this is not spam!
I have no connections or interests whatsoever with this company. If it works it just seems like something very worthwhile to let fellow woodburners know about.

Roebuck_2

Would I be right in thinking this is just a bit of wire wool?

Surely just a couple of inches of ash would provide decent enough insulation for the fire bed?

alleycat`

Well the document talks a lot of marketing speak.
How the "fibres" are manufactured, well frankly, i don't care about that :-)

It doesn't supply any links to any of the actual trials conducted by the universities.
Nor does it talk about the methodology the trials used, so it isn't even possible to try replicate them yourself.

I'm also puzzled about the temperatures quoted.
Nobody runs a stove at 750C as it'd be knackered very quickly.

It might work perfectly but I'm always suspicious of these next great energy saving inventions.

Pansy_Potter

Roebuck wrote: »

Would I be right in thinking this is just a bit of wire wool?

Surely just a couple of inches of ash would provide decent enough insulation for the fire bed?

Yes you are right, this is what it looks like but it is supposed to be the composition of the metals (alloys?) contained therein which makes the difference. I do have an ash bed and but the stove really starts to kick out once it has a bed of embers established which can take a few logs. What I think on first use is that this actually happened much quicker than usual due to the presence the metal fibres. Just wondered if anyone else has tried it the product. I get the feeling you 'experts' are very sceptical!!

alleycat`

Pansy_Potter wrote: »

I get the feeling you 'experts' are very sceptical!!

Not an expert by any means.
But yes i am naturally sceptical, generally, and especially of things that make big claims

Greenfires

I'm not a physicist or any other kind of scientist - but to the best of my knowledge, a certain amount of fuel will contain a certain amount of energy. I'd have thought then, that if you burn 33% less fuel, you are releasing 33% less energy (heat) as a result?

Williwoodburner

Put me down as............doubtful.