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.