How to write your review

Use the menu to the left to find and click your make of stove, then find the model which you have and click on the picture or the name of that model to get to the next page. On that page just click 'Add New Review', simple. If your stove is not on the site then simply contact us and we'll add it on for you.

Please write only about your stove, not about the supplier, delivery company, manufacturer in general.

Please write level-headed considered reviews – remember that people wanting to know which stove to buy will be reading your review. Please let them know about the experience of using your particular stove.

For people who have had a problem with a stove

• Please do not write a review while you are angry.
• Please remember to only write about your stove – for example if your local stove shop staff were not as helpful or knowledgable as you might have expected then this is not really to do with the stove.
• Please do not write derogatory comments about any particular stove supplier/retailer.
• To keep Whatstove stove reviews impartial we will simply not publish any suspect reviews - either overly positive or overly negative.

Common causes of a few problems

Burning overnight

Please remember that modern cleanburning stoves are unlikely to be good at burning overnight. This is because most have permanently open air supplies. So you can rate them as hard to burn overnight but this would not be a reason to be unhappy with the stove as it is not designed to burn overnight.

Poor fuel

Please remember that many problems can occur because of high moisture content fuel. Please acertain that this is not the problem.

Airwash

Airwash is the system that stoves use to keep the window clean and see through. Stoves that don't have an airwash system will tend to deposit tar on the window as the fuel burns which will quickly result in the window becoming opaque. Problems with airwash are often caused by not burning fast enough. Try burning faster with good visible flames in the firebox to see if this helps.

Please remember to put your views into perspective

For example if you bought a cheap stove on ebay and found that the airwash did not work quite as well as a stove 3 times the price then this would be grounds to rate the airwash a little lower, but in terms of your overall expectations of the stove there are some things like this that you should really have been expecting, and so you should not necessarily be rating your overall satisfaction any differently because the airwash isn't perfect.

For those with a vested interest

Please only review a stove if you have it in your house and have used it for a significant time. We want quality stove reviews on Whatstove. We will be able to spot over enthusiastic reviews and will not publish them.

If you disagree with another reviewer

That is fine, but please do not be derogatory to the other reviewers. We will not publish stove reviews that insult other reviewers, not only does it show a lack or respect but it also brings into question the quality of the review itself.

Can't find the stove you want to review?

Just contact us and we will add the stove to the website.