Stove

It's been slow progress with the house over the last month with our thoughts being elsewhere.
However, we've just placed the order for a wood-burning stove. The existing fireplace in the lounge is incredibly inefficient. An open fire is typically 30% efficient, but with a wood burning stove this should leap up to 80-90% due to the double-burn effect of firing at higher temperatures. Coupled with the fact that airflow through the room will be massively reduced, thanks to the sealed flue, this should make for a much cosier winter.

And as we'll be burning home-grown wood on the stove (not a lump of coal in sight) it should make for an efficient and sustainable heat source. The biomass boiler will have to wait but this is a good start.

All I need to do now is get the new hearth installed then we can look forward to getting the stove before the end of the month.

Good news amidst the bad

Blogging isn't a priority at the moment - my Dad died last week so this is far from important. But I now know that he did keep uptodate with what I was writing.

I'll get back to updating the blog in due course, in the meantime the good news is that we've just had planning approval for the extension. Dad would've liked to know this; it's a real shame he won't be around to see what we do.