The build

Not a downer at all. The underground heating is used as background heat. We’ll be having secondary heatIng in living rooms & bedroom to boost as and when needed. Possibly inferred from  jigsaw solutions. Bob’s not 100% convinced. But he can shove the panel heaters he keeps rattling on about where the sun don’t shine   . As you can see not everything is written in stone already. 
Our first couple of house designs were done around us having a wood burning stove. But we scrapped it, when we realised that in 15/20 years time we’re not going to want and quite possibly be able to cut & split our own wood. Definitely can’t afford to buy in ready split. So we scraped it. Hence the ongoing discussions about heating.

My inlaws used coal and split wood until we lost fil at 84. But he was a miner, so had his coal pension, hence them sticking to it. We have a coal multi fuel fire and a wood burner. Being disabled I found feeding the fires not too bad, but emptying ashes very difficult. My husband and children chop wood.