flueless stoves

[midnightexpress]

We're thinking about having a flueless stove fitted and wondered if anyone has any advice/tips?

We'd love a wood burning stove, but we live in a basement conversion in a Victorian house, so opening up the flue would probably mean lining the whole chimney (big tall house), so the flueless option seems like it might work. Does anyone have one that runs on bio-ethanol? Are they good, and is the fuel readily available?

Lining the chimney is not as expensive as you think - a flexible liner is dropped down from the top. Why not get in a chimmney guy to take a look and quote you??

Oh that's good to know SDD - thanks. We're having the roof replaced soon anyway so perhaps we could do it all at that point.

We had a w/burner fitted to a wall with no chimney & the guy made a hole through the wall and a fitted a flue (basically a 10 foot silver pipe) up the outside of the wall.

It wasn't cheap, but works brilliantly and the logs are going to be way cheaper than anything else.

And the woodsmoke smells lovely when you're coming home on a cold night