Are stove heaters popular in Poland?

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1. No. Insulation in Ireland is shit. And I mean shit. You guys heat one room at a time for a couple of hours depending on where you are in the house. You move to another room and it’s 12°C. This doesn’t exist in Poland except for some pre-wwii houses, which have never been renovated/insulated or in completely depraved areas.

   Edit: Also, traditional fireplaces meant for heating look(ed) like this in Poland:

   https://preview.redd.it/bxmuwtfunvcc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d989446fc52cb6eed89e2d6ebfa1201014eaeea5

   Tiles absorbed, retained and gave out the heat. They were usually located in corners of a room and went through the wall, so that one fireplace could potentially heat 4 rooms at the same time.

2. We do have one but it’s mostly there for cases when there is a power outage.

3. I’m lvl 37 polish – never saw that in here😂

4. Nope, never seen that

5. I’ve seen one in my fathers workshop. it was narrow tube shaped and there was place for one kettle on top. Father called it koza (goat). There was also stovetop in my grandma’s house and she did all the cooking there. I loved boiled potatoes fried on that stove top.

6. Not at all – they’re inefficient both thermally and logistically. We mostly use radiators.

7. Last time I saw one was when my builders used one during the winter when the house was being built and had no radiant heat installed yet. But yeah, they’re aesthetically pleasing if done right but horribly inefficient and a pain to run continuously.

8. Seen in some small cottages we rented in Zakopane. Nice one.

   You can find it in some old restaurants around the mountain regions.

9. Sometimes people might have something like that for style, but even really old buildings have central heating and radiators as the primary method of heating.

   The only place where such things would be seriously used would either be a pre-war, unrenovated flat in a city, or some garage or workshop that only needs to be heated up occasionally. Old village houses used a completely different design with a stove built into the walls of the house, so not there either.

10. Polish living in Ireland here. These are definitely an Irish thing. Yeaa these are good at heating homes here but we don’t get as cold of winters here. You would need one of these with central heating in poland. I’ve seen them in poland but there usually located in the celler and they heat the whole house but they’re inefficient (burn coal) and more costly then gas or oil heaters.

    Edit: These stove can be good at heating homes without cental heating but the chimney need to positioned so it goes through few rooms, I’ve been using it for most of this winter especially recently.

11. I’ve got this fancy, modern thing called central heating, no need for stoves. .. .. … . .

12. Actually grew up in a house with one, It was never used we had radiators

13. Nope, it’s not Canada where most people have a garage or shed that they need to heat during the winter.

    Unpopular.

14. I think fireplaces are more popular when building a new house. My parents really like those stoves tho (for some reason they are called “koza” in Polish which means “goat”) so they got two of them when they were building their house. The stove upstairs is similar to the one in the picture and is terrible but I think it’s just how it’s built. The one downstairs is two or three times higher and is fantastic – it warms parts of the ground floor and a room or two upstairs.

15. I’ve got underfloor heating in my home. Now that is both energy-efficient and cosy 🙂

16. In Poland we use those in vacation cabins (cottages), they are colloquially called “Koza” (Goat).

    Due to low cost they are popular in places where you only stay temporary, houses meant for long term living usually have central heating.

17. It’s not popular as a heat source, as it’s not very efficient. In Poland people don’t have money for not efficient. Still you can see them form time to time. I have one in summer house. Some are used to heat up workshops etc.

    They have funny nickname “Koza” (goat).