On Wed, 07 Sep 2016 14:19:03 +0100, Capitol wrote:

lifter but haven't yet got around tuit! The cast iron stoves IME have
much hotter sides than the steel ones

Which helps put the heat into the room surely?

and are messier to use.

How are they messier? You chuck logs or 'multifuel' onto them both and
both need the ash cleaning out so I'm not sure why one should be messier
than t'other.

The sight
glass is also permanently sooted up.

Does it have airflow clean (or whatever they want to call it). Our old
Malvern cast stove has that and the glass keeps pretty clean.