woodburning

It feels like we're making progress! On thursday we took delivery of our shiny new woodburning stove, and more to the point it was fully installed and up and running by the end of the day. I baulked at a DIY installation so got Chipping Sodbury builders to install it, and they did a very good job.

The stove is a Riva Cube, a contemporay design and not one of the twee 'cottagey' designs that a lot of manufacturer's seem to be selling. At 5 kW capacity (presuambly that's subject to optimum wood, namely 18 month old hardwood?) it's ample for what we need to boost the heat from the inefficient central heating. Once it turns really cold it'll be interesting to see how it performs and how much of the rest of the house it can heat.

Meanwhile I'll sort out the log supply to ensure we're only burning the best dry wood as I don't want the stove filling with soot or tar as ol' smokey joe at Millsteads did thanks to all the pine Mum & Dad used to burn on it.