What's involved in fitting a wood burning stove?
I had an old baxi gas fire and boiler taken out, boiler moved and have an electric real flame jobby in the space now.
The old gas flue and chimney are still in place.
Any pointers?
Flues can be expensive, so you might be in luck if the flue was built to a good standard. These things have to be installed professionally nowadays, have a chat with your local Building Regulations department or any reputable dealer.
A word of caution on draught exclusion. You MUST have adequate ventilation with any stove. A carbon monoxide detector (in addition to the smoke detector that you already have, right?) is a very good idea too.
It's generally thought best for efficiency (which more or less equates to clean burning) to have the stove running at a high setting most of the time. So you don't want to get one that's too big for the room. In a modern, reasonably well-insulated house a 5kW stove will heat a fair sized room, you might have to open the doors to let some heat out into the rest of the house if you get it going well.
Red's 10kW stove would be too big for most of us I think.
Oh, and I like a couple of kettles sitting on the stove.