On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:31:35 -0000, "David WE Roberts"
wrote:

Whatever the stove, I find it very hard to believe that you get no heat
from
it unless you have the door open.

I've got one of them - utter crap, it is.

Which model?

Not one of the Country Kiln or whatever, but one that exhibits the
behaviour complained about. There's a grudging heat thrown out, but
more than four feet from it, you'd never know it was on. Otoh, it does
heat the back boiler quite well and even runs three smallish rads and
the hot cyl to a tolerable degree.
Tis the kind of stove that, even though it's likely forty years old,
is perfectly suited to a modern well-insulated house. I bet the
designers never knew they were being so prescient.