I get the feeling wood burners come from the same camp as stone cladding, laminate floors and decking. All the rage for a relatively short time before estate agents start advising sellers "You need to get rid of that to get a sale".
They seem a lot more hassle than they're worth.
Stone cladding or pebble dashing looked dreadful when it was done and two decades later looks worse.
I think the jury is still out on decking, at least it only has a 10 year life, so if it works it will be kept, if it does not it get ripped up (and put in the stove)
Laminate floors however i think are the future, and I think a stove adds value to a property. remember most houses built before the mid 1970's were designed for open fire heating, a the stove is an improvement on that, and much nicer than central heating
Still no accounting for folks, my mother had the AGA removed from the house as it was old fashioned and replaced with a modern gas cooker.
(however when we moved, the next house had an AGA already, and that stayed, and she even had one installed in the following house)
