Multi-Fuel/Log burners
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Because an open fire will heat one room only? A wood burning central heating system heats the whole house (via radiators you should have in every room).
didn't realise the thread was about having a central heating system off the wood burning stove.
for some comments above that doesn't seem the case.
No that's true. I don't know too much about the stoves but I've seen them before. I've also seen some massive .... structures.... for the lack of a better word, that's usually parked in the corner of living rooms and fed wood. It's heats it up and it radiates heat the whole house. It's quite effective but an eye sore. You do however get them in quite stylish shapes. Like big drums they are.
What I have is a system heats the water (not like tap-water but boiler water) that circles through the radiators of your house. It is possible for me to have it heat all my other 'using' water as well but it's too much of a pain as the water in boilers need to remain at high temperatures (+65 Celcius iirc) and fed wood constantly. I prefer only doing so in the winter for heat, not water for every day use. It's a very effective system and completely cost effective too. It pays for itself within 4-5 years. From then on you're in profit.
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Don't forget that all this FREE wood people talk about doesn't just grow on trees...Oh wait.
Luckily I live 30m away from the edge of a forest that leads to the next village. There's so much wood available that I don't mind at all if someone nicks the odd bit. Hell, I still have around 5 tons of wood left, just from a clump of trees I removed from my garden. Investing in a good electrical woodcutter or plain old axe is important. It's strangely satisfying being able to provide your own heat. It touches a very ancient part of my being 
I've just ordered one of these:
http://www.vestastoves.co.uk/cm/products-and-services/woodburning-stoves/vesta-v4.html
http://www.vestastoves.co.uk/cm/products-and-services/woodburning-stoves/vesta-v4.html
A stove loses about 30% of heat up the chimney but an open fire loses around 60%. Also thw heat from a stove can be controlled more effectively.
Presumably these heat your water as well as backboilers have been mentioned. What do you do in summer when you don't want the burner to heat the room?
No it doesn't.
So do you keep a conventional boiler as well?
Yep, I have two next to each other. It IS possible to run both via wood but as I said, you gotta keep it up 24/7 365 as Legionella needs to be warded off and it's just easier to do so via conventional heating. e.g. gas. I use only the wood burning one during winters and let it be over spring and the summer.
Got a link or source for this information? I'm aware that burning coal creates sulphur dioxide. Which on larger scales can lead to acid rain.
I'd like to do a bit of reading up on the eating through the chimney liner part.
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