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We have a small Jotul 602N woodburner. They are not cheap. We bought ours on eBay and used it for two years before the sides cracked as we had been sold one without the necessary baffles! New sides just bolt on.
However, its the only heating we now use. It heats the front two rooms and the bedroom above where the fire lives. We use those three rooms in the winter!
We use all the sapwood and bark offcuts as kindling and usually burn oak as main fuel although it will burn anything.
After four years solid use, we got about a cupful of soot when sweeping the chimney. Its been done just once in all that time. Those Scandanavians know all about cold weather. Every Godin I've seen out here just doesn't seem to want to burn properly and friends who have them usually say they regret buying them. But then they are French - the stoves that is.
Everything else French is triffic of course.
However, its the only heating we now use. It heats the front two rooms and the bedroom above where the fire lives. We use those three rooms in the winter!
We use all the sapwood and bark offcuts as kindling and usually burn oak as main fuel although it will burn anything.
After four years solid use, we got about a cupful of soot when sweeping the chimney. Its been done just once in all that time. Those Scandanavians know all about cold weather. Every Godin I've seen out here just doesn't seem to want to burn properly and friends who have them usually say they regret buying them. But then they are French - the stoves that is.
Everything else French is triffic of course.
Another very happy Squirrel owner. We burn a mixture of wood, wood shavings/chainsaw chips and (Welsh) anthracite. From my calculations, its output when running as hot as we want it is about 5kW.
I'd caution against getting a stove that is much too big. Previous owner of our house had fitted a huge Vermont castings beast, which probably would output about 10kW when going properly. But if you didn't keep it going all the time, it took forever to burn up to operating temperature from cold. Whereas the Squirrel is up to temperature in about 20 min from cold.
If all goes to plan, we will be using the Squirrel more intermittently when the Windhager pellet boiler is fitted
. Felling and splitting is fine now, but when I pass 70 in a very few year's time, it may be less attractive!
I'd caution against getting a stove that is much too big. Previous owner of our house had fitted a huge Vermont castings beast, which probably would output about 10kW when going properly. But if you didn't keep it going all the time, it took forever to burn up to operating temperature from cold. Whereas the Squirrel is up to temperature in about 20 min from cold.
If all goes to plan, we will be using the Squirrel more intermittently when the Windhager pellet boiler is fitted
. Felling and splitting is fine now, but when I pass 70 in a very few year's time, it may be less attractive!
