Review of Hunter Herald 14 stove

big, shove a tree inside and it burns, great heat, good boiler, delighted

Damon Grounsell 13 years ago

Bought this from stoves online, along with 500l accumulator and laddomat. good service and would recommend them, ask for a price match though if you find cheaper anywhere else. Fitted the system myself, it works perfectly and my wife is finally warm. She is happy and so am I. The stove is massive, mother in law has a dunsley yorkshire tiny and requires small bits of wood, this thing takes logs and the big lumps I can't get smaller, sometimes 18 inch by 12 inch in demensions and it burns it all faultlessly. We use a mixture of hard wood from our land and larch from forrestry commision and both burn with airwash open with the kind of intesity that makes the water in 500 l accumlator from 40 to 70 degrees in about and hour. this is fast. My in laws dunsley is significantly slower to do this, the yorkshire seems to burn less wood though. It is perfectly controllable, but the controls on the top air wash, which is the only one I bother using, are a little fiddly, you have to tap it with the door opening handle to get it eactly open. since it gets very hot. To get the fire started I just use the door slightly ajar for about 4-5 mins and then close it and job done. There hasn't been a day that we haven;t used this stove and its proved faultless, fill it with a basket of hard wood, and let it smoulder all night, come back in the morning and open the air vent and it errupts into flame, great. We don't do this often though since its less efficient and with the accumulaor tank I can run the central heating for about and hour or 2 in the morning, we only really need to light the fire when we get back after school,

Stove expert replied: Giving a great service, just watch that you don't let the stove get too hot as distortion can occur, it might pay you to get a stove thermostat so that you can check!

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