Another wood burner question

[Jill450se]

Hi all

My first time straying away from the Wedge forum and not posting about broken things

I am contemplating one of these to keep me toastie warm and wonder if anyone has any experience of them. http://www.broseleyfires.com/Wood-Burning-Stoves/S...

My other choice was a Morso Squirrel, but this took my fancy today.

Any help most appreciated

[netherfield]

http://www.dunsleyheat.co.uk/yorkstoves.htm

[Elskeggso]

With the recent boom in popularity, there are a gazillion stoves available, and many are similar to each other. Stick with a nice simple cast iron stove and you can't go wrong , and they are usually cheaper than steel equivalents. Just check the chimney before you do anything else.

[rudecherub]

I've had a Morso squirrel and it was excellent.

I note the other fire has dual air control.

If that means you can draw air into the back as well as the front as with the Morso then that's great.

My experience was the Morso is more efficient, with a cleaner burn than the Colebrook dale single front air vent stove I inherited in the current house.

[iiyama]

Clearview. End of!

Any decent stove will NOT be cast iron....

[Elskeggso]

iiyama said:

Clearview. End of!

Any decent stove will NOT be cast iron....

Nope, cast is still a perfectly good material for fires/fireplaces used by big manufacturers like Gallery, Capital, Stovax etc. I do agree that the best stoves are made from steel though, like Clearview/Aarrow etc.

[iiyama]

Agreed that cast is a perfectly good material for a fireplace. However you cant mention Clearview and Arrow in the same sentence, they are worlds apart in terms of quality!

[Elskeggso]

Just going by what our customers say, we get good feedback for Aarrow

[pauly26]

cast iron stovax=happy me

[Dan_1981]

Out of interest how does one go about finding out if their chimney is usable with somethign like this?

And if its not what are the steps needed to get it ready?

We live in a 1930s semi - with a chimney!

However where the fire obviosuly was once upon a time there is now an electric fire which I hate.

And I think before that a gas fire.

So who / what do I need to contact and what sort of costs would we be looking at?

Cheers

Dan

[Elskeggso]

Dan_1981 said:

Out of interest how does one go about finding out if their chimney is usable with somethign like this?

And if its not what are the steps needed to get it ready?

We live in a 1930s semi - with a chimney!

However where the fire obviosuly was once upon a time there is now an electric fire which I hate.

And I think before that a gas fire.

So who / what do I need to contact and what sort of costs would we be looking at?

Cheers

Dan

A NACS-registered chimney sweep should be able to tell you all you need to know apart from costs, that depends what route you go.