Description
Heat and cook from one fire. The Lacunza Altea is a freestanding wood stove with oven, a proper cooking fireplace with the oven above the firebox, made by Lacunza for homes where the fire is the heart of the kitchen or living area. Light it in the afternoon and you can bake bread, slow roast a joint or warm plates while the room heats up.
Lacunza Altea Freestanding Fireplace Features
An oven that runs off your heating fire
The oven sits above the firebox and uses heat that would otherwise go up the flue. It is roomy enough for a family roast or a couple of loaves, and you can see into it through the door, so cooking becomes part of a winter evening rather than a separate job.
Efficient burn, less wood
Lacunza lists an efficiency of 87 percent, which is high for a wood stove. In practice that means more of each log turns into heat in the room and the oven, and less goes to waste as smoke.
Takes standard logs
The firebox takes logs up to about half a metre long, so normal braai wood and split logs fit without extra chopping.
Specifications
- Fuel: wood
- Heat output range: 5 to 9 kW (nominal seven kilowatts)
- Efficiency: 87 percent (maker figure)
- Heating area: about 62 square metres (156 cubic metres)
- Weight: about 126 kilograms
- Flue socket: 150 millimetres
- Overall size: 600 wide x 1100 high x 406 deep (millimetres)
Is the Lacunza Altea right for your home?
The maker rates this stove to heat about 62 square metres, which suits a small to medium lounge, a kitchen-dining room or a cottage. Very high ceilings or lots of glass need more heat, so share your floor plan and we will confirm the fit. You can compare it with our other freestanding fireplaces.
Installation in Cape Town
Our team supplies and installs the Altea with the correct flue, cowl and roof flashing for Cape wind and winter rain, plus the compliance certificate. See our fireplace installation in Cape Town service or view every Lacunza fireplace we stock.
Lacunza Altea FAQs
Can you really cook in the Altea oven?
Yes. Once the fire is burning well the oven heats up enough for bread, roasts and baked vegetables. Like any wood oven, the temperature depends on how you feed the fire, so it takes a few evenings to get to know it.
What size flue does the Altea need?
It connects to a 150 millimetre flue. We size the full flue run, including the height above your roof, during the site visit so that it draws well even when the wind picks up.
Keen on a fireplace that also cooks? Ask our team for a site visit and a written quote.
