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Sarah

I haven't a clue what the answer to your question is, but would like to ask the forum members a supplementary question.

If I went next door to my ½ûÂþÌìÌà neighbours with a printed picture of a wood burning stove and the ½ûÂþÌìÌà word for maintenance (courtesy of Google) on it what in your experience can I expect....

1. A poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
2. Non Grazie
3. A glass of wine and lots of vigourous discussion leading to help and lifelong friendship.
4. A copy of Yellow Pages dot IT

Dave

I'd agree with YNot; I reckon you'd also get a look of consternation & (whether you understand it or not!) be told to burn wood in it & if it & the rads get hot, then it works.

..........OK, you might need to drain & re-fill the rads, but you get the point ;)

Sorry, that was probably not quite the answer you were after though, so........... there's [i]stuffe store[/i] in Aulla on the road from Penny Mart to the (old) station (on the right, I think) or another one in Pontremoli, just before the bridge on the Aulla side (almost across the main road from the Luni museum).

There might not be what you're after, but might "[i]know a man....[/i]"

Good luck & welcome to Lunigiana!

If all looks well with the stufa and radiators I would say start with having the chimney or flue swept. There are often end of season maintenance instructions for stufe that include brushing the inside of the flue. Of course you will also need to secure a local supply of very dry good quality wood.

If the system has been used in the last couple of years all may be very well indeed. Yellow pages often have listings under chimney specialists but you will probably need to enquire locally for wood.

Thank you everyone, we will check things out and see what we can do ourselves. I remember the shop in Aulla. Thank you.

Sarah Jane.......did you reach a conclusion on this?

has anyone had experiece with a pellet burner. What would one need for about 150m2.?
hope to be warm this winter
Karolina

[quote=YNot]Sarah

I haven't a clue what the answer to your question is, but would like to ask the forum members a supplementary question.

If I went next door to my ½ûÂþÌìÌà neighbours with a printed picture of a wood burning stove and the ½ûÂþÌìÌà word for maintenance (courtesy of Google) on it what in your experience can I expect....

1. A poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
2. Non Grazie
3. A glass of wine and lots of vigourous discussion leading to help and lifelong friendship.
4. A copy of Yellow Pages dot IT

Dave[/quote]

3. From experience of asking similar questions using pictures.

[QUOTE=karolina]has anyone had experiece with a pellet burner. What would one need for about 150m2.?
hope to be warm this winter
Karolina[/QUOTE]
Did you get any answer- would be interested myself about pellets in lieu of wood

Hello
As of the 28th of october we should be the proud owners of a house near Bagnone,Lunigiana. We are planning extensive renovations including new heating. It currently has an open fire in the lounge and an old rusty rage (stufa?) in the kitchen and radiatiors upstairs that run off of bottled gas. I imagine the open fire would not do much to heat the house, the kitchen range may need to be removed as it is so old and the gas for the current radiators would cost a lot of money to use.
Does anyone have a good ideas for us. I am thinking about a new kitchen range/stufa that could also heat radiators and water but with a system that could aslo run off of the Gas just incase we dont have wood or are too lazy to light it sometimes. Does anyone know anything about these systems and even better does anyone has experience of buying one in the lunigiana area?
If anyone knows of a good website selling these systems in anywhere in italy that would be a good start as I could then get an idea of price.
Also I am very keen not to have any AC in the house as it costs and is not very green. Any design tips to reduce the need for AC?
Thanks in advance
I am new to this website and i see that I am going to get a lot of advice form these pages.
Bianca

When I first read "AC" mains electriciy came to mind - but I think I have twigged that you are asking about air conditioning!

If you ask your electrician to put in a provision for ceiling fans, in strategic positions, these things take very little power (about 20W typically) and are usually completely silent (which makes them more acceptable for night time use than the ordinary electric ventilator fans).

If you also have the opportunity to create cross ventilation (not necessarily two windows in the same room - if you are able to leave a door open into a passage that works too) that is a help. Managing the house - using shutters - has a small effect, as does using an open fireplace chimney to create an updraught bringing cooler air up from the lower levels of the house.

None of these measures works like air conditioning - it is more about working on the perception (and physiological reactions) of the human body of comfort rather than temperature, and a bit of a draught cools effectively (particularly if you have worked up a sweat for the draught to evaporate!)