[Moorf]

Many of us have come here and are using solid fuel / woodburners for the first time... it's easy to forget life without them now!

So, have you got a woodburner and, if so, do you love it or loathe it?

[benandclare]

Hey until I moved in with Clare prior to our nuptials the only form of heating I'd had since leaving home was powered by wood/multifuel burners so guess I'm in the love them camp. House we're looking at has one :p Have promised Clare a masterclass

[wilson182]

We don't have one now, but we had one in all the rentals we lived in and I would fall into the love them catagory. (voted don't have one though)

[Kate D]

I had one in the UK with a back boiler. Lasted about two weeks before back boiler was replaced by gas central heating when I was coming back to a cold house every night. It looked fab when it was alight (gorgeous solid cast iron burner that was on a reinforced floor) and was great for guests as a feature, but as a regular, temperature controlled source of heating, no.

I know, a UK central heating, flick of a switch, softie me, and my rental here has it too. I've not been here long enough to be Kiwified yet...

Visually I love 'em.
Rely on heating my house with one? No....

Kate
(a pariah)

[Sam B]

Love them, and it will be the only real source of heating in our brand new house when it's built - just as it was the only source of heating in our house in Cornwall. It's going to be the biggest one ever, with one of those distribution thingies, and lashings of lovely insulation.

[Jo Jo]

I've got one, and I love it. I'm not a big fan of central heating - just as well, really!

[M&J]

We have two and love them. We had them in the UK too, I just want an Aga now!!!

[jubjub]

I love the warmth it puts out and seeing the flames flicker, I just dont like the work stacking the logs and humphing them around...

[nippa&pippa]

Love it and Kids love to sit in the front of logburner after had bath. Just say one word "logburner", they will jump out of the bath naked and ran to the lounge so quick. (yes we got huge fireguard ;)) without any bath towels!!:laugh

[Debbie]

Love it. I love the look and the economy of it. I pay for my wood up front at the beginning of autumn and know what my heating bill will be. I don't have to worry about having the fire on all day (and night) if I want and I would never do that with a gas or electric heater. The worry of a huge bill coming through the post would put me off. I just wish we had a loft so we could fit ducting and heat the whole house.
Debbie

[Tia Maria]

Is a pellet burner similar to a woodburner?

Do woodburners have any downsides?

Cheers

Tia

[mossum]

don't have one but I love the heat off them but totally hate the smoke ... all my neighbors seem to have one & their smell invades my house & makes my washing stink grrrrrr !:mad:

Vic

[Familyofmonkeys]

We have two and love them. We had them in the UK too, I just want an Aga now!!!

F L Bone are one of the NZ importers of Agas....and they are not as expensive as we thought they would be either.

[KerryS]

I so want a woodburner. We have an open fire at the moment, which just isn't the same.

[benhila]

We will have a woodburner in our new home and we are utterly terrified of the practicalities. Please prepare for a barrage of stupid questions once we actually move in...

[nippa&pippa]

We will have a woodburner in our new home and we are utterly terrified of the practicalities. Please prepare for a barrage of stupid questions once we actually move in...

No problem! as Moorf did help us with woodburner questions ie how to keep fires last long time without keep adding woods so often...now we know how to do it :D

[jackie m]

We have one & I love it. Kids favourite spot after a bath huddled the other side of the fire guard. The puppy seems to have made it her spot in the evenings when its on aswell.:D

Jackie

[mgbridges]

We had one in the rental we were in and boy did we need it! Don't have one in our current home as we have a (horribly expensive) Daikin reverse cycle air con system. At the moment all we've got is a great looking mantelpiece and surround around a hideous electric fire that we never use and is hidden by a fire screen my Mum embroidered.

I'd still really like a woodburning stove though as a focal point, I find real fires so soothing to look at. It would also be a great thing for the dog (retired greyhound) we are one day going to have (no matter what my OH says!)

Anneliese

[Nettie 2]

Still getting to grips with mine. Some days it burns brilliantly others it doesn't want to know. We have also got quite a large house with the lounge behind the dining room with a window between and 5 steps up to it so the heat doesn't always get up there. The one good thing about it is we get our logs free as my brother in law clears land of fallen trees so we just go up there with a chain saw and help ourselves. Excellent! :D

[jubjub]

No problem! as Moorf did help us with woodburner questions ie how to keep fires last long time without keep adding woods so often...now we know how to do it :D

pretty good at it aint she?? Helped us master ours too! :clap