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Excellent stove, efficient, clean burning, big firebox. Good control and good heat output, airwash works well. Was recommended by local woodburner specialist shop and we are very happy with it.

I bought the Lovenholm after having done all my homework and felt really pleased with my purchase. Had it fitted and it looked good, really stylish.

Then it started happening.....creaking!!!! I thought initially it was just because it was getting hotter and it was the expanding metal however it then got worse and worse. It now happens intermittently (every 30 secs or so at it's best) throughout my using it and is at it's worst when I have just put some fresh wood on a bed of embers. It's at this point that it just creaks and clicks constantly. It's so bad I can only have loud music on or the tv as a 'quiet' room drives me insane.

So I spoke to the shop (who were very helpful) who replaced it for me saying this can happen very occasionally and is a 1 in 200 chance so imagine my surprise when it happened again (1 in 40000 now)!!!

I've had my head all around the thing desperately trying to locate it but all I can say is it's is coming from the stove and not the pipe etc.

So now I'm either on to my third or I get a different one (Dunsley Highlander or Stockton 5 as needs to be DEFRA approved and a similar size due to the necessary clearances).

Remember the VW Golf advert years ago with the squeaking car and it turns out to be the passengers ear ring? Well I don't wear ear rings!!!!

Yours in insanity

We spent months looking at the different styles/manufacturers and investigating fitment(I fitted the liner and stove). After looking at much less expensive models, we saw a F100 working in a shop and decided to spend the extra cash.

I was initially disappointed in the poor heat output but this was down to burning damp wood. Got this sorted last weekend and now find the heat virtually unbearable (in a room 16' by 25'), had to open the door.

As we bought an ex display model it came with the multi-fuel grate. I've tried the stove with coal but think it runs better on thoroughly dried wood, as well as ticking the sustainability boxes.

Overall, now very pleased. All controls easy to use and the door handle feels like it will last years, reflecting the overall quality.

Money well spent.

BOUGHT THIS STOVE TO SIT EXACTLY WITHIN AN EXISTING 'NORMAL FIREPLACE OPENING. DISAPPOINTING RESULTS. IT TAKES ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF BEFORE ANY NOTICABLE HEAT IS PUT OUT. THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL QUOTES HAVING THE AIRWASH CONTROL OPEN ABOUT 50% BUT IF U OPEN IT MORE THAN A FRACTION THE HEATED AIR VENTING OUT APPEARS TO BE SUCKED INTO THE STOVE ( THE VENTING CONTROL FOR AIRWASH AND HEATED AIR COMING OUT ARE IN THE SAME COMPARTMENT. I CONTACTED BOTH MAIN SUPPLIER AND HUNTER STOVES IN CASE THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG AND ALTHOUGH I WAS OFFERED ADVICE I COULDN'T GET A SITE VISIT WHICH I REQUESTED ( JUST TO CHECK EVERYTHING WAS OK AS I AM UNFAMILAR WITH INSET STOVES OR ANY MULTIFUEL SYSTEMS.

Stove expert says: sounds to me like the installer (or an installer) should be booked in for a site visit here. It sounds like there could be a strong draw on the chimney.

Admittedly our stove was bought over 10yrs ago but, assuming the technology hasn't changed, we have very mixed views. I think it is the best looking stove on the market and I like the ability to load from the top with a large metal plate you can heat water on an cook if there were a major power cut.
However, I am afraid the stove is just too complicated and "fragile". The catalyst is easily damaged and needs replacing after a while. We had to do this a couple of years ago and including the buckled internal lining plates the parts alone came to over £600. We do not use the stove in the summer (Inverness) yet within a short time the "guts" of the stove have buckled again and bits fallen off. Too many moving internal parts because of the catalyst. We have never burnt anything other than wood on it. The airwash, if we ever had it, has never worked and the glass is usually opaque and difficult to clean. If you break anything (I managed to break a door glass) it takes an interminable time for parts to arrive from America.
Sorry, but despite its attractive appearance and excellent heat output, we regret buying one.

I've owned a number of stoves and while this is the best looking by far it is weak on performance. A particular annoyance is the door which does not open 180 degrees. The handle stays cool to touch which is good but I am yet to find a setting which maintains a healthy flame and steady burn rate - this is partly down to my logs but I've achieved good fires with the same wood on another stove.
If you love the look and have the budget it's not a bad buy but if performance and price are more important to you than aesthetics I'd keep looking.

Stove expert says: modern, heavily baffled, efficient stoves may not cope as well with poor fuel or a poor chimney (they often need a decent draw). If you have poor fuel then I would advise that you season it properly as burning wet wood will tar up your chimney, but if you are going to burn it then you might well be best off using a basic stove that is not heavily baffled so that it sends a fair bit of heat up the chimney.

I did a lot of research into buying this stove. I had a squirrel before but extended the house and needed the heating and hot water to work off the stove. After consulting a specialist and many friends I decided to take the plunge and spend a bit more money on buying the Dove (my only concern was that it might be too big, but I was told that it's better to buy one that's too big than too little, and he was completely right!). Overall I'm massively happy, it's a beautiful stove. If I've got one piece of advice to give to anyone it's to buy a clip-in back boiler and not a factory fitted one, as it makes a massive difference to the heat output of the stove.

We chose this stove because it suited our budget but also the combination of steel body & cast doors is the same as clearview and others but around half the price. Overall it is a good stove but I think the quality of a fire depends as much on dryness of wood and the chimney as it does on the stove. Given dry wood and a clear night it gives a great fire but less than perfect wood soon starts to reduce its efficiency. I guess this applies to all stoves but I do know of other stoves that seem to cope with slightly damp wood better than mine.

Another point I like about the canopy version of this stove is that the canopy is part of the chimney meaning it acts like a radiator unlike some canopy stoves which are just a flat top with an ornamental canopy. This means that it gives plenty of heat. On the down side the airwash is definitely not up to clearview standards.

This is a good stove for the price but considering the amount of time we spend looking at it I might spend a bit more next time. That said a stove installer once told me the money would be better spent on more sheds to ensure guaranteed dry wood.

A superb little stove, beautifully built, easy to light, and very controllable. It gives out an enormous amount of heat - way too much really for the eleven foot square room it's in, but with the doors to the room left open it warms the whole house (single floor). I shall have to burn large logs very slowly or the heat is simply stifling in a small closed room. This of course causes the glass to darken, and I've not been able to clear it by fast burning, but easy to wipe clean next morning with a damp cloth and a bit of ash. I think the airwash is a bit of a gimmick - probably effective when fast burning, but that's not going to happen much I think.
I'm very glad I went for quality rather than price in the end. That said, it's not at all expensive for a stove of this quality.

At first I wasn't sure I was doing the right thing. For the price of this stove I thought it would be made out of cardboard or something. Wow I was amazed! This stove looks great, much much better then the pictures at the Country Kiln's website. And boy was it heavy, we had to be three people to carry it from one room to its final place in the house. I think the build and finishing are a little bit rough but it does give out a lot of heat. To my surprise I also found out that it had a riddling gate which for some odd reason was not mentioned in the website, nice surprise. An additional feature it has is a lever at the bottom which when opened supplies additional air to the back of the stove. Overall I think it is a very nice and functional stove and looking at the price, definitely worth it. Thumbs up for this stove!