Wood burning stove in new build

[spartanrunnergirl]

Has anyone bought a new build and installed a stove? Is there a covenant of what you can/cannot do to the home on a new build estate? (I know the rules around stove installation etc)

This would not be a high density area - would be a detached house etc.

Thank you.

Ask the developers re: covenants. If there isn't one, then it's all by local council rules.

It will vary by developer and local authority

How new ?

If it is genuine new build then it should have the crap insulated out of it and will be really energy efficient with possibly a heat pump or solar. It will have more than likely been designed around energy efficiency, with the insulation and heating methods chosen to work together to maximise energy efficiency and occupant comfort (if it hasn't then I would not buy it).

A woodburning stove would probably be awful because it would produce very localised heat. Plus it will look completely out of place.

If it is on an estate the management company sometimes have details of this sort of thing in their documentation.

We’ve just moved into a house with a wood burning stove, a gas stove, and an electric stove, that all look the same. If you want one for the look of it, you genuinely could have either of the others. The electric one doesn’t even need a flue.

We have had real wood ones previously and I loved the coziness of them but we haven’t used ours at all - the gas one is perfectly good and delivers far more even heat with the same cosy feel.

My guess is with the gas one it is also far easier to control the heat output just by turning the gas up and down.

You don't get the fun of constantly going outside and getting wood though.

Yes! And the electric one. It’s great to be honest - no need to keep on top of wood (and bloody kindling), none of the immediate blast of heat etc. And I am crap at fires but can turn a control handle.

I’m sure we’ll do the wood fire for a bit at Christmas but for day to day warmth the gas fire is so easy.

Thanks for all the comments. I love all the wood and stuff so I'd like to go real with à contemporary stove.

We put a morso one in our new house and it’s fab - modern and sleek
we turn the heating off in the room when it’s on

I’m not in the uk so can’t help with rules I’m afraid . We had to install a fresh air vent to comply with code here

We have one. Our house is nine years old and we moved into it when it was new. There was a chimney, and it was possible to create an open fire, so we did that and changed to a wood burner last year.

Wood burners are going out or favour due to environmental issues.

Why would you do this?

If it's a modern home you shouldn't need it for heating.

They are a faff to look after and bad for your lungs.

You are inevitably going to bring pollution into your home -some of it carcinogenic. Some ventilation systems (in particular continuous extract only types, quite common in new builds) are not compatible with stoves as they increase the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning by "competing" with the flue to draw smoke away from the fire, and unfortunately, draw itinto the room instead.

You will also get smuts on any light-coloured render and skylights. At least we certainly did. Disabled the stove several years ago for this and the reasons in my post above.

Yes, this is why we’re using the gas one. I was getting really uneasy about the particulates issue. After being brought up in a smoking household and hating it, I didn’t like the idea that I was putting my kids through anything similar. Occasionally for a special occasion only here now.

Why?
And real wood can be more expensive than mains gas now that wood fuel prices have gone up.

Why not ?
real wood can also be free , less expensive than mains gas, if you can be bothered to do a bit of work.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/11/wood-burners-more-costly-for-heating-than-gas-boilers-study-finds

Yawn 😴🥱

You have to burn dried wood unless it’s come from your own property. High unlikely to be the case in a new build.

Real wood is never 'free'.

Either it's your own wood when you had a tree felled - unlikely in a new build - and then you have to chop it and store it. And you can only do it once.

Or you found it somewhere in which case it likely belongs to someone else. And you still have to get it home, chop it and store it.

We are currently burning through the 'free' wood we got when our roof was repaired. I don't think £££££ for the roof counts as free and I'd rather have mains gas thanks.

Oh so you had a new roof just so you could burn the old one in your fire ? Then yes that would be expensive.

OP. I’ve just come across bioethanol stoves. Might be worth looking at?

Why do people on these wood burner threads make these ridiculous assumptions about people

Is it really outside of your imagination to consider that someone might be able to source genuinely free wood that they either season themselves or the giver of the wood seasons in their garage for a couple of years (thanks dad)

Those look really good thanks @newusern99