Review of Clearview Pioneer 400 stove
Clearview Pioneer
I have two stoves and this is my favourite. Lights very easily (the little front vent works a treat and it does have a good tall chimney flue) and is easy and accurate to control. Its star feature is the overnight burn. Last thing I pop a couple of logs in, and turn it down full. In the morning it looks like it has gone out, but just open the vents and in a few minutes it is going full - and still has lots of wood to burn. So no messy starting. It can go for weeks on end with never going out. Of course you need to empty the ash, but this is easy to do even when it is burning. The front control for shaking the ash down works well. The glass also stays pretty clean, even over a period of weeks. The heat output is fair for the size of stove too. The only downside I found with it is that if you want an external air intake (rather than from the room) the supplied cowling only allows for intake on an extenral wall - i.e. it only can go straight out. Overall my favourite stove.