With wood-burning stove sales having increased five-times since 2007 and around 180,0000 households having new stoves installed in 2014 alone, there are lots of new wood-burning stove owners in the UK right now. Here are 12 tell-tale signs that you’re one of them!
1. During walks in the countryside, you find your eyes are now drawn to fallen trees rather than nature that’s actually alive.
2. You look forward to the first bitterly cold day of the winter in the same way that most people look forward to the first sunny day of summer.
3. You look like this after opening your heating bill.
4. Your friends now nervously phone ahead before calling over to see if the stove will be lit…
5. … And behave like this if they arrive and it’s not lit.
6. You found out the hard way just how hot a woodburner gets when it’s lit.
7. The sight or even the remote possibility of some free wood brings out an Albert Steptoe side to your character that you never realised existed.
8. The dramatic improvement in your fire-lighting technique could be the subject of an uplifting, against-the-odds TV documentary.
9. You nurture a fledgling flame with the sort of care and attention usually reserved for your offspring.
10. You’re well-acquainted with the feeling of realising you haven’t checked on the stove for ages and your fire might have gone out.
11. You no longer think that sprinkling salt on something is the only way of seasoning it.
12. You’ve managed to turn Coronation Street into an audiobook that looks like this:
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Yeo guilty as charged with all of the above !! Havent looked back since installing ours !
That’s me as well wood burglar not really but always on the look out
How far does flue need to be out from roof
Hi Paul
It varies. More info here: https://blog.gr8fires.co.uk/2017/06/23/document-j-wood-burning-stove-building-regulations/
Thanks,
Gr8Fires
I’m all of the above , and I haven’t even bought mine yet lol