Woodstoves

[British Red]

For me Esse are a very viable choice. Made in England and lots of interesting designs including smaller cook stoves

ESSE-Bakeheart-roomset-569x427 by English Countrylife, on Flickr

 

[bearbait]

I had an earlier ancestor of the Esse Ironheart stove in the kitchen of a longhouse: two hot plates and an an oven. One does need to save up one's pocket money for a while to purchase one, though. It pumped out the heat. As you can imagine, the dogs hated lying by it.

Also had a Jotul stove for the lounge. Another good bit of kit.

 

[lou1661]

I have a Charnwood Island 2 picked it up as an ex demonstrator, lovely and controllable the double doors mean you can have some decent logs in there. Clearview are also well made but seem to be a bit more fiddly to use, I am currently trying to work wether to fit a solid fuel aga or a Esse with an oven.

 

[lou1661]

@British Red is your woodburner the sole heat source within the cottage? just curious as I am looking to find a replacement for old school night storage heaters. (sorry @TeeDee for the drift)

Louis

 

[Ystranc]

I use a Coalbrookdale Severn as a boiler to run my central heating if that helps at all. It is the main source of heat along with a solid fuel Rayburn in the kitchen. Both run on wood.

 

[British Red]

@British Red is your woodburner the sole heat source within the cottage? just curious as I am looking to find a replacement for old school night storage heaters. (sorry @TeeDee for the drift)

Louis

Hi mate,

We run an Esse Ironheart. We use it as our main heat source and our cooker at this time of year. We have an lpg boiler but use only for hot water and frost protection if we are away

Esse & Pheasants by British Red, on Flickr

 

[Kadushu]

6 years ago I bought a Prity stove which cost £280 brand new, shipped from Bulgaria. It's never going to compete with the likes of a Rayburn but for that price it's hard to make a like for like comparison. It will need some repairs around the 10 year mark by my estimate, which will involve welding on a steel patch or 2. I really can't complain.

 

[lou1661]

6 years ago I bought a Prity stove which cost £280 brand new, shipped from Bulgaria. It's never going to compete with the likes of a Rayburn but for that price it's hard to make a like for like comparison. It will need some repairs around the 10 year mark by my estimate, which will involve welding on a steel patch or 2. I really can't complain.

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Looks like you are not the only one to be impressed by it!

 

[Woody girl]

I'm in lurve with those esse stoves, but I've no possibility of my h/a letting me have one, and my pockets don't go that deep.

I'm off to find a sugar daddy.

 

[slowworm]

@TeeDee this thread might be worth a read. https://arbtalk.co.uk/forums/topic/...ity-of-different-makes-of-wood-burning-stoves

 

[GreyCat]

Sorry - no you are correct I didn't , but I did mean internally.

I grew up with a Rayburn - to be honest , I grew , it stayed as it was. But I do like that sort of thing. I feel the Europeans do it somewhat better by having tonnes of thermal mass around them and centralised.


The stove I'm after will be for the sitting room - and hopefully modern looking enough to fit the aesthetic. Now... that does make me sound very artsy doesn't it.

For UK sourced Stoves you would have to be looking at double or Triple that figure.

You can get Masonry stoves in UK, a place in Cornwall does them. (Cornish Masonry Stoves).

You're looking at a price of circa £7k to £8k though.

I know this as I have been pricing up options for secondary heating for a house refurb.......

GC

 

[Potatohead]

We inherited a Jotul XVIII with our bungalow
Heating duty only but damn! A full single burn with a 6 log top-down fire warms the whole place through.
And very effecient. Not much ash left behind.
I love it.
Was trying to figure out if I could convert my Aga to woodfired somehow.
Its just too expensive to run it on gas.

 

[Tengu]

Thats a grand inglenook

 

[Potatohead]

Thats a grand inglenook

Its very ‘dividing’ to be honest Lol !
Previous owners again.
I like the idea of it. But its too big for the house. Well out of proportion. But still a fun feature till i can afford a change around.

 

[TeeDee]

Bump for this - I don't fancy spending better part of 10k for a Masonry stove.
So how difficult can it be to construct a Masonry stove considering alot of European people have been constructing them for a few centuries ( if not longer ) wig slipshod tools in the backwoods of the various countries.

Isn't it just an internal lump of Masonry , a close fitting Masonry exterior ( but space maintained between inner and outer ) and adequate air flow?

 

[TeeDee]

Pönttöuuni helposti netistä

Tunnelmallinen pönttöuuni sopii jokaiseen kotiin. Useita eri vaihtoehtoja. Tutustu ja tilaa!

www.taloon.com

 

[TeeDee]

 

[Ystranc]

Bump for this - I don't fancy spending better part of 10k for a Masonry stove.
So how difficult can it be to construct a Masonry stove considering alot of European people have been constructing them for a few centuries ( if not longer ) wig slipshod tools in the backwoods of the various countries.

Isn't it just an internal lump of Masonry , a close fitting Masonry exterior ( but space maintained between inner and outer ) and adequate air flow?

The only real issue you would have is getting it signed off by the building regs guy from the council, easy enough if you’re using a standardised woodburner tested to conform to British standards but common sense will only carry you so far when you’re faced with the whole batch of British standards and you’re trying to build from scratch.

BS & EN Standards for Installation of Solid Fuel Appliances - HETAS

Learn more about the relevant current British and European industry and safety standards in the solid fuel and biomass industry for appliances, chimneys and more.

www.hetas.co.uk

 

[slowworm]

I would also worry what the house insurance companies would think of one. I do find the mainstream companies don't like anything nonstandard.

 

[TeeDee]

Valid points and something that occurred to me earlier today.