Review of Riva 66 Multi-fuel Fire
Good stove, bad stove
The stove looks good and has a large fire box and has some nice touches,but is let down by functional aspects of the design, quality issues and overpriced spare parts.
On ours the catch for the panel that covers the controls and ash pan has been impossible to adjust to get it to work. So it remains flapped down all the time picking up ash that falls from the fire whenever you open the door (because the front guard that stops the ash falling out is ineffective.) We bought the stove with the optional fan kit and the air duct kit. When one of the 2 fans failed we were amazed that it could not be bought as a spare from Stovax, you have to buy the whole kit again with 2 fans wiring loom and grills etc. We looked into replacing the baffle plates (they divert the heat and flames from shooting straight up the flue liner) after 1 year the originals were so warped they didnt stay in place, the price was over £200.00 which is extraordinary for such a simple component. If you buy this stove do look into the optional air duct kit that ducts hot air from between the two skins of the stove to another room, it works very well. Having owned a Clearview stove in the past perhaps weve got high standards but we've spent too much "hard earned" on this stove and if it wasnt built in it would have been out the door ages ago.