Mad Eejits

Installing Our Wood Burning Stove - 06 Apr 09

I’ve being really slow in getting this series finished off and I’m sure anyone reading has forgotten what has gone before. So far we’ve looked at why we chose a wood burning stove and how we decided which stove was right for us. Now its finally time to get into the details of installing the stove, which was a longer and more painful process than either it should have been or we could have possibly imagined.

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Choosing a Wood Burning Stove - 27 Feb 09

This is part two of our wood burning stove installation saga. In part one we looked at Why Choose a Wood Burning Stove? and now we turn to the question of how to choose your stove from the seemingly endless options out there.

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Why Choose a Wood Burning Stove? - 23 Jan 09

This is part one of our wood burning stove installation saga and where better to start than why we decided to install a stove? Several of our reasons could also apply to an open fire, but others are unique benefits of wood burning stoves.

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Back for 2009 - 12 Jan 09

No sooner than I had posted, in August, that 3 months without a post must have been a new record for me, I knew that I had given myself a challenge. Through hard training, good discipline and impressive self-denial, I persevered though the long months of Autumn and into the midst of Winter. The journey has been tough but so worthwhile as I can now present to you over four and a half months of no posts! Oh, how I spoil you.

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Summer's Almost Gone - 22 Aug 08

Nearly three months without an update? Must be a new record even by my poor standards. Yet here we are at the end of August, mostly still wondering if the summer ever started at all as its been one of the wettest for many years.

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What? May? Where? - 29 May 08

The month of May just seems to have flown by, but the lack of posts on here hasn’t meant we’ve been doing nothing. Far from it, in fact.

The major highlights of the month (some of which I’ll cover in more detail later) were my company’s announcement of a Cycle to Work scheme, my 31st birthday and the start of the work to fit a wood-burning stove in our living room.

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