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Hi to all the team. I am writing to inform you of how delighted we are with our Cathedral woodburner. We bought the stove in November 2009 to take to our holiday home in Brittany for Christmas and I had asked for it to be delivered to a local depot so that they could forklift it on to my trailer. When i checked the stove, after it had been placed onto the trailer, my first impression was of a very beautiful stove - so much better than the image on the website. I decided not to let my wife see it until it was installed ! After a very difficult journey, deepest snow in Brittany for many years, the fire was intalled and the first lighting was on Christmas day ! Not only is this stove beautiful to look at (either lit or not) and enhances the room but it also delivers in the heating department as well. It is also very heavy - it needed three of us my son and wife) to get it off the trailer and on to the hearth. Even my wife agreed that it was a beautiful stove - well she did when she manage...

There are huge benefits of the rear reversing flue outlet on stoves to the majority of people wishing to install wood burning / multi fuel stoves. Properties built from 1966 onwards generally have clay or concrete block system liners within the chimney. Almost all have been (or should be) constructed in this manner if built after 1966. The vast majority of entries to these block system liners start right at the back wall of the fireplace opening, which makes them awkward to connect to a flue from most stoves. If it starts a reasonable height up, it may be possible to fit a pair of bends to create an offset to kick the flue pipe backwards and reach the opening. Bends are expensive though, so fitting these will increase installation costs. The other option is to fit an equally expensive tee piece and soot box and use the rear outlet from the stove - running the flue pipe vertically behind the unit. The downside of doing this (apart from cost) is the distance that installation of these p...