As the house currently has no central heating, or heating at all for that matter, this was a job I have been really looking forward too. We’d looked around the net for stoves and found a nice contemporary model which would fit the existing opening in what will eventually become the kitchen snug.
Here’s the existing opening with stove drawn on for size and then stripped out:
The bigggest job of fitting this stove was to feed the flue pipe down through the existing chimney and into the fireplace. I had bruises on my shoulder for a week from this job:
You can see in the last picture the slate tiled hearth made for stove. Again a building regs requirement.
Finally a couple of pics of the stove installed and working. If you don’t have one of these you must get one. If we ever move house again this will be one of the first things we install!
Tags: heating, ponsforth, roof, woodburner