Tim wrote:

Thanks, but can you expand on this please? I have been informed up
to
now that fireplaces have useless efficiency. My reason for wanting a
woodburner is to rememdy the fireplace problem that so much of the
heat goes up the flue and creates excessive room drafts.

If you place the stove in the flue you will not achieve much extra
efficiency in output.
The whole point of the exercise is to have the stove planted out on the
hearth of the fireplace and that way all the heat is in the room and
you have a pipe out of it to let the fumes up the chimney. Think about
it.



Also someday in the future you may wish to revert to the fireplace and
it will be intact if that day comes.

I will, I will keep the original Victorian fireplace insert in my
basement.

Think about this post before you do anything.
http://groups.google.ie/group/uk.d-i...6?dmode=source

That is a nice post but the writer seems to be an advocate of wood
burners, no?
its my post on an earlier thread. Many people put their stoves into the
fireplace and that defeats the main purpose as they lose much of the
heat up the chimney.
Take a tip from the person who has lived with one in his living room
for twenty years.
Its warm on the coldest day of the year and its a big room with a high
ceiling.
Prior to that I couldnt live there in cold weather no matter what fire
I put down.