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Hi has anyone on here got a clearview woodburner?I've been told that they are the best in the world!We have an appointment for a chap to come out and give us a price for one.Which woodburner have you got?Whats it like?Advice please
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We've had a Charnwood multi fuel for 5 years,brilliant and it heats the water.Tricky cleaning the chimney though,ask for a flap at the side if can't get through the stove with the brushes -
There was a De Ville already installed here when we moved and I well remember that on the second visit in the depths of winter (and it gets bleddy cold here
) the whole house was really warm and it was the only heating was the wood burner.
Ours has a sort of fan effort on the bottom that blows the heat around the room which is something I'd never seen on a wood burner before - very effective though, for an extra boost.
The only other thing I would say is that ours has a "pointy" top if you know what I mean. We sometimes have power cuts and I need to use it for cooking. With hindsight, I would have had one with a flat top. Having said that, we are a bit in the back of beyond and it might not be the same for you.A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)
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If you're going to use it as decoration,just to have some flames to look at then go for the woodburner.
If you want to use it for heating purpose,then go for multifuel one-yes,it is slightly more expensive but you have more options as what to burn.
One of OH colleagues at work has a wood burner-he collects all the scrap wood from work but still struggles to keep it going all the time.According to OH he spent a few hundreds on a woodburner and now regrets not going for multifuel one.Comment
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We have a Woodwarm. 3 years old now and the best improvement we ever made to the house. Lights very, very easily, burns like a dream, the glass stays clean and the heat it throws out is astonishing. We also had new gas central heating fitted, but it rarely turns itself on because the woodburner heats most of the house. We've rarely had problems sourcing wood, but even when we've had to buy it in, it's still cheaper than the central heating!Life is too short for drama & petty things!
So laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly!Comment
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I had a 12kW Woodwarm too - ran the heating and the hot water. Because the circulating water took so much heat from the stove the glass sometimes sooted up, but if I ran it hot for half an hour it cleaned itself pretty well. Other than that it was wonderful.Resistance is fertileComment
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We have a Clearview Vision 5oo with a boiler fitted. We've had others in the past but this is a Great stove for the following reasons.
Large enough door to get decent sizes logs through so you get an evening out of one fill with no problem.
Will stay in overnight to keep the room warm for the morning.
Good draught system keeps the glass clean
Grate can be riddled from outside and the ash pan can be emptied (with oven glove) while the stove is lit.
Easy to light.
Very little ash from a days wood, I leave it 2 or 3 days if the wood is really dry.
Loads of hot water all the time. Sometimes we even run some off to stop the pipes bubbling at the end of a lazy day in front of the fire.
There are loads more reasons for getting one.Digger-07
"If you think you can, or think you can't, you're right" Henry Ford.Comment
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We have a Dovre multi -fuel stove which has an airwash system- which means the glass doesn't smoke up.
One problem we had was that we had to have a couple of bends in the flue - which caused it to draw too quickly( wouldn't stay in all night just with wood)- so it needed a baffle. Worth asking about that as it's much cheaper to install at the same time rather than after the event!
Actually- it does smoke up a little if you use young wood or put the wood too close to the glass.
Last edited by Nicos; 17-01-2009, 04:30 PM."Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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Thanks all, Thats really helpful.Digger07 sounds great!Comment
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We're building a (kit) house at the end of this year and are trying to work out the best way of heating it. We're wondering about the merits of using a woodburner to heat the hot water and underfloor heating... Any advice on the pros and cons of using a woodburner to do this would be MUCH appreciated. We can talk to sales people but they will only tell us the good bits and we'd like to know the whole story! Does the stove have to be going full whack all the time, for example? Oh, so many questions and decisions. Help, please!Comment
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I would try and get some proffesional help,you don't want a well meaning amatuer giving you worse information.Try google for the free info,if that doesn't help,you may have to pay an architect.Originally posted by Nelly View PostComment
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There was an article in Country Smallholding a few months ago but I can't remember the name of the boiler. It seemed to be a good system.Digger-07
"If you think you can, or think you can't, you're right" Henry Ford.Comment
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I have my eye on a Stratford boiler stove (28Kw). My other eye is still on a Godin Chatelaine though.....
I want heat and heating with dhw via a heat exchanger (i think).
Keep up the suggestions!TxComment
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We have had a total of six woodburning stoves over the years and just replaced the really cr@p one in our sitting room (came with the house - a Franklin - Don't Touch With A Barge Pole) with a Clearview one. It was far more expensive than the other stoves we have had. IT IS A MILLION TIMES BETTER. Honestly, I don't work for the company or anything! It really is fantastic. We bought it with a boiler option which my husband is going to fit later in the programme when we do upstairs as we are looking into whole house heating. We live in an 18th century thatched cottage (hence wanting to get a really good stove as we have to be really careful about fire risks etc) which is very draughty so it's made a really big difference.Comment
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chocclare,the people coming to give us a price on the clearview are from Lymington.Is that where you got yours?
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