Woodburning stove in bedroom?

[Sadoldbagpuss]

Anyone done this? Is it even doable? We have a chimney in bedroom so thought it may cut installation costs.

I was under the impression it was illegal to have a working fire in the bedroom - I could be wrong though!

I wouldn’t.
The heat from a wood burner is tremendous in my experience and will suck out all the oxygen of you don’t have good ventilation whilst it’s on.
Even with a chimney is an expensive business and of course there will be mess.Its unavoidable.

And you will have to lug the wood or coal upstairs assuming the bedroom is upstairs

And lugging the wood burner upstairs to put it in would be quite a task.They weigh a ton .Even a small one.

Unless you're planning on branding irons for kinky shit, why would you do this?

It'd be a bloody nightmare. Chimney sweeping, fuel provision lugging coal, cleaning, safety - plus they do ooze a smokey smell and that would be it for me.

really really bad idea for your long term lung health. Seriously - don't. Look up some stuff on what even an excellent woodburner lets into the room, and then imagine breathing that in all night.

Can i also add that anyone with a woodburner or a gas boiler should have a carbon monoxide alarm. They save lives.

Watching with interest, as our master bedroom is dual aspect with 3 external walls. It has a blocked up fireplace, and I have always fantasised about putting in a tiny burner. We've a big one in the living room which pretty much heats all of downstairs and is on for the best part of the day in the colder months. So toasty.

It is downstairs, already have an open fire in living room so used to cleaning chimneys fire etc... however I would be worried about smell and my lungs!!

I wouldn't, simply because it will be too hot! There are other reasons, but I wouldn't want a really hot bedroom.
How about having an electric one? You get the ambience without the heat and the faff.

I had one in a previous house and it was lovely. We still had to line the chimney because the house was timber framed and there was a big oak beam inside the chimney (so an extra £££ chimney liner).

We didn't use it more than a few times a month, mostly used to light it in the mornings on cold winter weekends. The bedroom was huge with a vaulted ceiling in an old house, it wasn't too hot (although we didn't close the door).

Walking up the stairs with a decent log basket or down the stairs with a covered ash pan wasn't a problem.

Ffs on some of the scare mongerinf on here, modern wood burners are fine and you can have one in your bedroom, yes you need a carbon monoxide alarm, as you do for your boiler in case it goes wrong. You're not breathing in any dangerous levels of pollution, folks need to read up.

And cleaning a wood burner is easy, you simply pull out the drawer, and tip it into a bag. Job done. And call a chimney sweep annually.

I've a wood burner upstairs and down and would happily sleep in either room.

The only reason I wouldn’t, is due to the amount of heat they throw out unless it was a really really large room.

You get different sized wood burners, which have output scaled to the room size.

We have a tiny woodburner in one room and it would still definitely be too hot for me to sleep with it on. I do like my bedroom bracing fairly cool though.

I think the nicest part of a woodburner is watching the flames and the cosy heat; I just don't think it would be the same in a bedroom unless it's really massive and you have a seating area iyswim.

Not unless you sleep in the living room.

Why is that Mike??

We had an inglenook in the bedroom we installed the woodburner in. We lost power in that house for two weeks before Christmas one year and camped in a living room with a woodburner for that time.

The following spring we installed one in the bedroom (which was big with an armchair/reading space).

We loved it! When DD was little and DH worked away a lot we used to camp out in there with films and evening picnics in bed.

That sounds heavenly

I’d do it if the room was big enough to have a clear area around and in front of the stove .

I wouldn't like a hot bedroom.

@Bluntness100 - well the last fortnight of news would suggest otherwise!

Denmark is banning the sale of any home with a pre-2000 woodburner, unless it is removed; Montreal is banning most woodburning; there's evidence of particles from woodburning reaching brains, placentas etc.

Where you are right, perhaps, is that a modern woodburner shouldn't emit that badly into the room where the burning is happening - the smoke ought to go up the chimney. So it's your neighbours who get the worst of it; plus other people in your house if you have the window open. At least in a car, you're poisoning yourself worst - with a woodburner it's others who suffer the most.

Plus which wood-burning is VERY climate-unfriendly - the idea that it's carbon-neutral has been completely debunked.

No energy is carbon Neutral but it is wood pellets that are the worst, not Wood.

Decent wood burners with clean dry wood produce almost no smoke. burning stuff from the tip, wet sticks from.a garage forecourt.and old kitchen units is polluting.

Watch for greenie knee jerkers . The classic example.is Germany banning low.carbon nuclear because Japan had an earthquake . Back to coal, stupid art student politicians ...

I have a working fireplace in my bedroom, installed into the existing chimney breast in 2015, so it's certainly legal. It's an open fire though, not a stove. I chose to put it in because the empty chimney breast looked shite and it now looks beautiful. I've only had it lit a handful of times though, on cold winter afternoons while reading in bed. Never at night.

Johnny that sounds good, I definitely wouldn't put it on at night so maybe an open fire is a better option.

The electric ones look VERY realistic nowadays, and you can have the option of just having the flame effect going, without the heater, so best of both worlds in a bedroom.