Is an oven and ventilation sensible?

who's making war here? It's just a forum - I wrote my opinion and that's that, I even referred to an expert, right :) Be happy with your stove, you deserve it, don't you? I'm neither jealous of it nor trying to talk anyone out of anything with a ton of posts?!

Let's try a war-deciding throw, or drop or shot. Is a stove sensible? Freely after Brecht. The question is wrong. Do you like stoves? Then the question is answered. Don't like them? Then it is also answered. Max Planck called it quantum logic. Something can be right this way or that, depending on the observer's point of view.

I have the direct comparison.

In the old house, we had a fireplace; in the new one, we have consciously done without it. Since we used full heating in the old house, the stove became unnecessary and was rarely on.

There was really a lot of dirt generated. Our two don’t produce that much dirt.

On top of that, twice a year the chimney sweep has to be paid and walks through the house.

We now feel very comfortable even without a fireplace...

If I were to build new and had the choice to omit the fireplace, I would do it.
It saves real money. No chimney, no sweep, no stove, and wood is not a cheap alternative either.

Ready to be stoned: We mainly heat the living room with a Wamsler wood-burning stove, usually fed with lignite briquettes in winter. And yes, that does create quite a bit of dust! Around the stove, the vacuum cleaner has to be used more often, but that goes pretty quickly and is not a big deal. And in the rest of the room, more dust also settles; but even without stove operation, dust has to be wiped occasionally. Or maybe I'm just not that sensitive, I don't know – but the "extra dirt" doesn't bother me.

We have controlled residential ventilation, Bora with exhaust air AND a fireplace (I believe 7kw) in the living room (65sqm). Secured via LUC2. At around 0 degrees outside temperature it is on almost daily. Very, very pleasant... no dirt and everything works great! We would not have expected that at all. The expectation was: The thing is only on on weekends during the deepest winter. I rarely have to remove ash as much burns away... At 330..350 degrees the glass also stays nice and clean (glass rinsing)..

Steffen, you seem to have built a nice palace, are there any pictures of it?

Best regards