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Hi Kathy and welcome!

All the bricos sell woodburning stoves and you will find in June that many have them on promo. We bought ours from Weldoms at Civray (we are in north 16) a couple of years ago and they offered an installation service but we did it ourselves as we had installed one in the UK. It's French (Supra) and is excellent. I've managed to keep it in since we came back from holiday at the end of December, it's 13 kw, uses 8 medium logs a day (!), is glass-fronted and keeps the very large kitchen really warm (central heating is switched off all day).

For secondhand ones, look in the classifieds in local papers and the small ads in shops. Godin, Supra and Deville are good makes.

Get it fitted with a chimney plate otherwise you will find that the heat goes up the chimney. You'll probably need a chimney liner (although we haven't bothered) and don't forget to get the chimney swept before the woodburner is installed and then annually after that (a legal reuirement for insurance purposes in France).

Wood should be at least three years old, a mixture of chene (oak) and charme (hornbeam) is good . Just ask your neighbours or at the mairie for a reliable supplier. (Applewood gives off an amazing heat but burns too rapidly.)

Good luck.........helen

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Hi,

We bought our free standing Godin from a specialist shop in Perigueux but then saw the same model many, many Euros cheaper in Mr Bricolage so it is worth looking around.

We had ours installed by our local chimney sweep. First he swept and cleaned the chimney, then he went on the roof and dropped down the gaine (long silver snake like thing (conduit) which, I'm sorry to tell you Helen, is required by law in France as we checked!), then he made plates to enclose both the gaine and stove pipes into the chimney so that heat would escape into the room not up into the void. We had two free standing wood burners installed in this way (2 gaines, 2 sets of plates etc) and the total cost for the installation was around E1000 including all materials and TVA. Hope this gives you some idea.

 

 

 

 

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[quote]Hi, We bought our free standing Godin from a specialist shop in Perigueux but then saw the same model many, many Euros cheaper in Mr Bricolage so it is worth looking around. We had ours installed by...[/quote]

Thanks very much for the helpful and rapid replies to my query. I was also useful to know that a chimney sweep could help install the woodburner.

Kathy

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Oooooops - didn't know that Penny. I'll ask the ramoneur to fit one.

Is this a new requirement as none of my neighbours ( elderly French) have got liners and the guy who sweeps it (them) hasn't commented?

regards.......helen

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Hi Helen,

 

If this appears twice then sorry - my first response disappeared when I hit the send button.

I believe the new regulations apply to new installations only.

We had a huge discussion about this with eveeryone we knew - many people said we didn't need a conduit (those with old woodburners) whereas everyone we knew who had a new burner installed said we had to have one. In the end we checked with the shop we bought the burner from (although we did find out afterwards the appropriate reg had been quoted on the back of the invoice) & also our insurance company. Our ramoneur checked with the Mairie, who then checked with some government body. Ultimately, the answer was yes, it was obligatoire to have one gaine per woodburner, so in our case we needed two even though they went down the same chimney, because they were connected to different woodburners. The ramoneur felt so sorry for us he only charged for materials on the 2nd gaine!!!

 

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