Regency Bellerive

It’s perfect for the winter months, kept our home nice and warm. And being able to just close the door and know it’s safe to burn out while we go to bed is great for peace of mind.

Good fireplace – The unit looks good and burns well. It could do with a deeper ledge below the door opening to prevent coals from falling out. Other than that, there are no issues. Show details

Great fireplace – Nice large fire box and fire keeps the whole house warm, even with our high ceilings. We load up with wood when we go to bed and still going when we get up in the morning. Show details

Bliss – I cant believe how easy Mr Stoves made it for us to install our new Regency Bellerive, we are absolutely loving the sleek look of the fire as well as the ease of use. Heats the whole open plan living area. I cannot be happier with the product and service Show details

Good product – I have had this heater for 2 years now. Very happy. Show details

very disappointing – Very very noisy fan, cannot stand it with the fan on as it sounds like a jackhammer. poor quality. poor heat. Would not recommend this band heap of junk unfortunately. Show details

Can heat my house to 32° while it's 5° outside – Ok so reading others reviews that this doesn't throw out enough heat is laughable, because the box is so big if you really crank it and have decent quality wood you easily overheat every room in the house. I have a 180sqm 4x2 and I have seriously measured 32° inside while it was 5° outside. The slow combustion is also great, it easily manages 10… Read more ·  1

hrs overnight when I wake up can put more logs on, not to mention the tiled floors throughout the living room are cosy warm to walk on in the morning

Hate it poor design – Very noisy fan, very poor design as embers can drop out and fall down in-between firebox and plate under door and then they get into fan and it blows hot lit embers out vent, extremely dangerous as it could burn the house down. We absolutely hate it we wish we bought another Coonara instead. Also doesn't throw the heat out like the old Coonara did… Read more

which had 3 fan speeds whereas the Regency only has 2. The Coonara also has the ash drawer that you could empty out which the Regency doesn't. If we could afford to get rid of this poor design of a wood heater we would.

GREAT - LOVE IT – Purchased in 2012 and have never looked back. Anyone who is complaining about noisy fan needs to realize it is likely due to the front lower fan compartment requiring very simple adjustment. It needs to be level and may have been bumped to be not level. With regards to heat, I can only suggest that people may not be using the correct timber or… Read more

leaving a window or door open. You also need to really get to know your fireplace (i.e. esp. vent control/adjustment) and once you do, you will be in sync with your fireplace. We love it and have had no significant problems at all...

Regency Bellerive – We purchased a Regency Bellerive May 2019. Looks great and performs really well. We have an open Lounge/Dining/Kitchen area with exposed roof trusses, so a large area to warm. The Lounge room where the heater is located warms up nicely, Kitchen/Dining not so much heat that you feel in your face, but the whole area is certainly a large number… Read more

of degrees warmer than if it wasn't there. Step outside and see how much warmer it is inside. It does take some time to 'bed in' when new, do it properly and there won't be any problems. Had smoke in the room once, but worked out opening the door a little, then slowly, stops that problem. As for ash falling out, again open door slowly and won't have that issue. The salesman was very knowledgeable and installer knew exactly what he was to do. After our recommendation, my brother purchased a similar heat for his home, which he is very happy with. We recommend Mr Stoves for your next purchase.

Heat good durability not good – Heater will heat the house but the baffle has distorted and the fan will only last one season and the need replacing very disappointing. I am looking at replacing this unit. Show details

More heat from a box of matches – Actually reviewing its little brother the Berwick, in a nut shell, looks good - the reason I bought one was to replace my 25 year old Hartford series 80....decided to keep that and sold the Berwick unused, which I later installed for the client in a new build. Rated to heat 180 m2, it would struggle to heat a toilet, just does not perform, the fan… Read more

is noisy and asthmatic , burns wood but produces virtually no heat, had a specialist to look at it , his words were, they either perform or don’t and nobody knows why!.....not recommended

Good customer service – I published a bad review last week. Regency contacted me and offered advice, assistance. Very impressed about their commitment and response. Good Reason why you should buy locally made products Show details

Looks Good - but very loud vibrating fan - cannot hear the TV – It looks great but the vibration of the fan is so loud we cannot hear the TV and that is on the low setting. It seems that this is a manufacturing problem as many of the reviews report the same problem. Show details

Regret buying this – Had my fireplace two years and the fan has been replaced twice and the air bar has bent almost in half. Fans were both the under warranty but the air bar is not. I contacted regency and I’m told it’s a maintenance issue. When I queried what maintenance I could do to prevent it occurring again I was told I can’t do anything to prevent it.... … Read more

Heat output is poor and like other reviews this unit chews through the wood. After two years and I am already looking to offload it. First and last purchase from regency.

Coonara 2100 replacement – been running the heater a month now and started to believe some of the bad reviews I wasn't getting much heat out of it even though it looked like it was burning OK just had to open it up and burn some wood as it can make a log last all night Yes the ash falling out the door and was an issue but can be managed (Coonara had an ashtray) I decided on… Read more

this heater because of the amount of steel in the construction and are happy with the heat is stores. My only gripe is I would have liked a third fan speed (boost) but if one comes available it is easy to access the fan with only 2 bolts to remove. It looks good and the glass stays clean

Looks great but that's about it!! – Looks fantastic but that's where it ends. Doesn't heat any where near the area that they claim it does and frankly you only feel the heat when standing right in front of it. Burning the recommended Jarrah so not the wood. Still have to use central heating to warm the room up. Very disappointed and would never buy again. Don't waste your money people!  Show details

Absolutely Awesome – Installed the Regency Bellerive two months ago and am thoroughly impressed. The unit was installed into an existing fire place and looks absolutely amazing. I've found the heat output to be excellent, especially when the inbuilt fan is turned on. I've been burning all types of timbers without an issue, obviously some burn faster than others, just… Read more

as some burn hotter than others. To be honest the unit was kind of out of my price range, but I bit the bullet and am so glad I did. Just my two cents worth :)

It was an extremely expensive and COLD mistake! – I replaced my 30 year old wood insert with the Bellerive. It looks great but that is as far as it goes. No matter how I try. It fills the room with smoke every time I open it. The firebox is almost level with the opening which is a major fault ash comes out so the box needs to be cleaned out constantly nearly every 2nd day, I burn very old iron… Read more

bark so the wood is not the problem, which it eats! In the previous one the box sloped into the fire box providing a safe and excellent bed of coals for the new wood. As far as heating I do not know how they come up with the heating areas as mine heats a quarter of what they say if lucky.

I could not replace my old heater with the same as it was a New Zealand brand no longer available ( much to my dismay ).

Bottom line is investigate others thoroughly before getting this insert.

12 months old so far so good! – Heats 170sqm house in Tasmania no problem. We have to open windows when it is zero outside and 26 deg c inside. It does seem to be a little fussy with wet or semi green wood and the fan is a little noisy but nothing compared to a/c. love it!

Not as Good as Expected – We upgraded to a Regency Bellerive inbuilt, having lived with a 2nd hand Saxon free standing that was sitting in the fireplace. We have been disappointed with the upgrade. Sure it looks great, with a wonderful big viewing window, the downside to which is smoke being released into the room on most occasions that we open it. We open the door as… Read more

slowly as we can, but somehow it always manages to sneak out the door opening - rather than up the flue - I just don't think the design can cope with such a large opening. I was also disappointed with the increased wood use, but I think that's down to the damper being set slightly more open than older models to meet with emission standards.

All up, I regret spending the money ($3300 plus installation) on an inbuilt heater requiring an electric fan - I think we would have been better off installing a free standing sitting in the fireplace, and making use of the brickwork's thermal mass. Like the other review says, the heat distribution is not great - but maybe that's your lot with an insert wood heater.

Great looking wood fire insert but a little disappointing in heat distribution and wood consumption – We deconstructed our fireplace to remove our old JetMaster open fireplace and rebuilt the fireplace to install one these Regency 'Bellerive' Wood Heater inserts - which actually looks much better than the pictures on the net. It looks brilliant when burning! We have gas ducted heating as our primary source of heating for our moderate size open… Read more

plan home and was hoping to use the Bellerive as a secondary source of heating. Product claims it can heat 250sqm+ - however on a very cold morning without any other heating I found it barely heated the house outside a range of ~6metres with the fan on full. I had a thermometer set about 15metres away and after 3 hours of early morning heating the mercury barely moved. Bit disappointing - thought it would really heat up the house nicely. The internal fan is only a tiny, single drum, 2 speed blower - I was a bit surprised how tiny it was when the installer showed me! Chews through a LOT more wood (hard wood only) than we anticipated (with damper full open or closed) - but this is our first closed wood heater so I guess thats what they do... It's certainly much better than the old Jetmaster open fireplace but I couldn't see us using it frequently in winter with the amount of wood it gobbles up - but perhaps that's par for the course for any closed wood heater? I don't know...

Note: With our limited experience with wood heater inserts it just may be that all wood fireplace inserts are of this performance - so please carefully consider this review and compare it to other similar heaters and reviews before choosing against the Regency Bellerive.