Certain models of wood burning stove allow you to convert the stove to be multi fuel therefore allowing you to burn coal inside the stove as well as wood.
Convert wood burning stove to coal.
The consensus and to some degree my experience is that the stove is pretty inefficient with wood.
For example we can buy a multi fuel conversion kit from the manufacturer of our wood burning stove that converts the stove to be multi fuel.
Wood burning stoves arent cheap and often you need chimney lined if house is old probably costs around 2k 3k with liner and good quality stove bare in mind logs arent cheap either supply and demand has pushed prices up over past year or so because there are now popular.
Coal fireplace convert to wood burning.
If your coal stove has grates it can burn wood.
I had another thread where i was discussing burning wood in my antique bonny oak coal stove.
It would appear that the stove is not very air tight and the bottom grill is really intended for coal which requires more air.
Hi we live in spain as well as ireland and have the same fire as in your first picture and have been checking our fire out to change it to a wood burning stove and the company came and had a look at it and have said yes it can be changed to a wood burning stove and as audrey jones said regarding the chimney lining is correct but the company we have gone to does all that included in the.
I had a coal stove that was like that but it was.
What eliminates a coal stove from burning wood is a hopper that allows the coal to slide down into the firebox as the coal before it is consumed.