Hello,
We are looking to get a wood burning stove installed in our newly-renovated casita.  As we have never spent any time there, it's not clear by what time, as Autumn approaches, we need to have the stove installed reading for lighting.

Appreciate it's in the hands of the vagaries of the weather, but (roughly) when do you light your stoves?  Imagine you light them at first just in the evening?

Many thanks in advance.

BTW, have you got your logs in yet ?  If you need to buy them in, the earlier you do so the easier they are to get hold of and cheaper.

If you are looking to buy logs we sell them at a trailer load for 70e in the tortosa area, but could deliver further for a small fee to cover fuel etc

14 or 15 cents for 2 year old olive or orange is right, and I'm interested in a couple of tonnes at that rate.  To the original post : light it when you need it, the great (er grate) thing about woodburners is their almost immediate output of heat.  Use plenty of dry kindling and small loglets to start off with.  The biggest problem you might come across is cheap Spanish woodstoves are made of thin steel and the doors usually aren't air tight and so the draft isn't totally controlable.  Damp cheap wood is your worst enemy so do not think about using olive you've hacked off in the same year.  Not only the flue will coke up but you'll not get the same calorific value from fresh wood that you wood wood if you used old would.   Geddit?