Well just google that…lol
I can’t recommend them enough.
Bit of hard work to incorporate in an old house…and to clean.
But boy do they heat. And you can see an open fire…which is not open. But you can open it if you want to.
When is an open fire, not an open fire, when it’s an enclosed fire 
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Nut are you also heating France which depnds on the chimney. Ours and several I have seen can be a slot 1m wide and 300mm wide so unless that has been sorted then whilst throwing out a lot of heat you are also putting in a good few stere
Healthier than an open fire though.
Yes but it is not letting fumes out and spitting on your carpet
Its tubed…and the tube passes through the old chimney breast which then heats two bedrooms upstairs. It radiates the heat out into the rooms.
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If you’re giving advice to someone, it’s only helpful if you substantiate your opinions, but most of your previous rant above is factually incorrect.
Given where Michael’s considering relocating to and noting his interest in environmental issues, I’d recommend multi-function heat pumps that can work as cooling dehumidifiers in the summer heat - much more comfortable than a/c.
I’d also recommend a log burner for winter with a stove top fan, rather than a pellet stove because it’s cheaper and if you’re retired, it’s easy to maintain. Also of course they work during power cuts and in addition the manly satisfaction of playing at lumberjacks with logs and axes and chain saws (though not necessarily while wearing ladies underwear!) . However, pellet stoves are super convenient, instant and far less hassle,
We have all three forms of heating and find that each has its merits and drawbacks.
Incidentally, this isn’t much use to Michael, but perhaps nonetheless interesting
Nevertheless, the use in London of vertical slats in front of the windows for privacy, in th e South of France is also a very effective means of screening from direct sunlight without darkening the room with shutters.
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I think I mentioned to you Mark that we use one currently - a Morso Squirrel with a fan in our ever so cold front room. I like woodburners a lot. I think that the heat pump is a good idea for general heating (and cooling). Not sure of the cost but I imagine it’s circa 10k. Will check what Amibois would charge. One question though - woodburners need a certain air flow and the house I am interested in has tightly controlled ventillation. How does that work ? - a pellet stove must have similar requirements.
I did a few posts back…go back have a look.
I researched the whole idea for the house we live in and the one I am renovating at the moment.
Not a good idea IMHO. For the reasons I gave
Buy a stove with a room sealing kit, it gets the air from outside and pre heats it before it goes into the stove.
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I see what you did there
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I think it depends to some extent on the size of the room and how it’s connected to other rooms. Our log burner is a modern one without any designated ventilation, but it was installed by local poele specialiste in the large ground floor room of a three storey house with good internal convection throughout.
However, if needed the ventilation aspect should be simple because unlike ours, most properties aren’t mediaeval buildings built into a cliff face.
I did and that’s why I argued that many of your points were factually incorrect.
Incidentally, most of your recent posts seem not very well-reasoned nor well substantiated - for instance, you’ve been knocking people for wanting to live in tourist areas , whilst simultaneously on another thread expressing preference for living in the English Lake District rather than France!
I lived in Cumbria for fifteen years and have published plenty of academic analyses of the history of Lake District tourism, I also used to commute across the Lake District to lecture in Lancaster and although I now live in another tourist area (the Lot Valley) the problems caused here by tourism are minuscule compared to those of the Lake District. Here local people can afford to buy local homes, congestion is easily avoided, there’s plenty of places where you can drive or walk for hours without seeing anyone
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What twaddle, but it’s not worth going into that.
And as for wood burners vs pellet, what about air quality in the house? How do you empty your fireplace, hopefully through a chute into the basement.
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Spoken like Wainwright!
I found this useful information on pellet stoves. I see you can get battery back-up. In the showhouse we saw small electric heaters in
rooms other than where the stove was located. One would hope that in a very well insulated modestly sized house circa 120m2 they wouldn’t generally be needed. Saying that, how warm would the main living space be? This info predates energy price fluctuations Pellet Burning Stoves in France | French-Property.com
I’m still more inclined to go for heat pump plus woodburner if budget allows.
This technology looks promising
Ok…well lets go through them.
You need to plug it in. More than that it needs to be on its own circuit. So the chances of you having a direct circuit where you want to put it is slim. That means carving up yours walls to put one in.
They run on electronics. If the card goes wrong ( and they do) you better hope that people still stock it. And it will be expensive to replace. Bit like an electric portail which I found out the hard way. I would stay clear of electronics on such a thing.
They need to be serviced every year. OK if you live near a large town/city. Our rural neighbour has her burner serviced by someone that lives 100 + km.s away because he specialises in that model. Bit expensive.
You have to store the pellets. And there were reports about the quality of pellets on the market. So you have to be careful.
They are not pretty devices. Ok it is subjective. But they don’t fit well in older houses.
They are noisy. They are very loud. Yes I have heard one running in a shop selling them. The noise put me straight off.
They do produce heat though. Very nice.
Not sure it is cost effective in the long run. Bit like electric cars.
I have no problem with electric cars or pellet burners but it is too early to invest.
Our wood supplier was saying that a lot of her customers who bought pellet burners are going back to wood burners. Bit like electric cars…again.
No I would not live in the lakes because of tourism.
A car, unless a classic, is not an investment, no more than a fridge or a laptop is.
Anyway, way about the pollution in the home from wood burners? As an asthmatic I can tell you it’d real. No matter how careful one is a fine ash does escape. We gave up using our stove because of it. So it didn’t turn out to e an in vestment either 
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Mine is a foyer ferme. Fumes don’t escape from it….even when putting a log on it.
The ash it produces is minimal because it burns at such a high temperature.
I think it is the best thing you can buy if you like seeing logs burn. You use lss logs too.
Ours too is a high tech one. It draws air from the basement and injects it at multiple levels and the curved glass door is sealed, but regardless a fine ash will escape. Not good for lungs.
You have both reminded me to make sure I take my air quality meter with me next trip as I forgot it previously. Putting it bluntly if you can smell the combustion of the logs especially when re fuelling then the smoke particles are there.
Better to have a cleaner heat source and watch a HD video of a wood fire.
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