I have had a Arada inset stove for a year now and when it is running it creates a good output that burns efficiently which it very pleasing. However as a user I have two observations you want to be aware of…
1) The door only opens through 90 degrees before the door hits the stove frame. I can live with this but the catch that keeps the door closed extends out 3”/75mm from the door and is a hazard when cleaning and stoking the fire. I have skinned my wrist on this catch several times already.
2) While the stove draws well in use when lighting or stoking smoke enters the room rather than going up the chimney. The stove was installed by an experienced HETAS qualified fitter to the manufacturer’s instructions so I am left thinking the airflow design to deliver DEFRA efficiency standards has limited the draw when the door has to be open. The stove is very shallow back to front with a large height top to bottom that makes it more prone to smoke escaping. I suspect if the top-front of the fire box had been extended down an extra 25mm this might have helped the draw up the chimney keep the smoke in.
If you can live with these issues it is a stylish efficient stove.