Island Life Magazine Ltd April/May 2007 | Page 19

PROPERTY a half. Remember how I was told I would have to open a window, it’s true we were sitting in the lounge and became so hot we had to open the patio door. Another thing I dreaded was that we would have to go through the routine each day of lighting the fire, no, not at all, we keep it going 24 hours a day, when we go to bed we simply push the air flow knob in to restrict the airflow and it just ticks away all night until the morning. In fact in two weeks I think we have had to light it twice which was really easy anyway. And as for my flatscreen TV, it works a treat, the heat does not affect it at all, and it’s still on the wall. There are a couple of things we have noticed since installing the wood burner, firstly the house is warmed through continuously and because it’s a completely different type of heat, we do not suffer from headaches any more which we used to with central heating. And let’s not forget the wonderful smell of oak wood working i