Kachel Ofen is fine if you have sufficient room around it, since it will throw a lot of heat.
And you need some patience to heat it up. Since it will take at least an hour to warm the room. If have been impatient you will run to the window soon.
take care to see that you can feed large chubks of wood into it. Since the smaller pieces will brun up fast. If you can feed big ones your fire never stops.
All in all: I have had good experience and would recommend them.
Originally posted by PonderableBut isn't the whole idea to burn quickly and very hot, so that a burning of 1 hour will give heat for upto 24 hours?
Kachel Ofen is fine if you have sufficient room around it, since it will throw a lot of heat.
And you need some patience to heat it up. Since it will take at least an hour to warm the room. If have been impatient you will run to the window soon.
take care to see that you can feed large chubks of wood into it. Since the smaller pieces will brun up fa ...[text shortened]... ones your fire never stops.
All in all: I have had good experience and would recommend them.
The kachel ofen will be central to the house, placed in a corner of the living room (open plan to dining/kitchen), where the back of the kachel ofen will heat the halway and stairwell. I also plan on ducting the air for my mechanical heat recovery ventilation system via the kache ofen to give it a bit of a supercharging.
I plan on burning in the morning, or possibly early evening for an hour, and then just enjoying the heat. I was thinking of the finoven 36 from these guys...http://www.tigchelkachels.nl/?pag_id=1581&site_id=31, with a design something like the organic one on the bottom left of the page.
Did you heat water with yours? Did you build it yourself? Or did you buy the hearth, and then get a mason to build up around it?
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Originally posted by PonderableYup, I understand all that.
The flat in which I used to live had an old one. The idea is in my opinion, that the ofen is heated up and will maintain the heat a long time, so it's good over night. But if it is cold it is cold and no use to try to heat up quickly.
And no we didn't heat any water with that ofen.
Did you find it economical?
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Originally posted by PonderableGreat, thanks for the info.
Since we had the wood anyway due to my father being a landscape gardener: yes!
And it was nice work chopping the wood. I like to do that even if we don't have a wood stove any more.
I'm definitely going to go ahead and buy one. They're not much more expensive than an open fire, and I'll save on having to plumb radiators throughout the house (because of other factors like insulation, MHRV, etc)
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