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Wood burning Stoves
Why it makes sense
Today’s wood burning stoves are cleaner and user- friendly, can be left alight round and can be fuelled by traditional logs, wood pellets, compressed sawdust blocks and even some waste woods.
Saving you money
While an open fire has been estimated to be only around 20-25% efficient, wood burning stoves achieve efficiency of over 80% – an instant and impressive energy saving.
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Wood burning stoves
Ideal for ...
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New builds 
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Older properties
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History rich homes
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Listed buildings
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Wood burning stoves explained
The clue’s in the name! but these days wood burning stoves can be fuelled by more than just
traditional logs. Wood pellets, compressed sawdust blocks and even some waste woods are all great
alternatives.
They’re much more user-friendly too, so although you’ll need to clean them out every week or so,
you won’t find yourself re-laying the fire each morning. Thanks to their enclosed design and the way
that the gradual build up of an ash layer on the base helps the fuel to burn, today’s stoves can be left
alight round the clock, without any danger of falling logs causing damage to your home.
Are they right for you?
Wood burning stoves bring a real warm, homely touch to new builds, but are also well-suited to
‘retro fits’ in older properties and listed buildings where good insulation levels are hard to achieve.
The system must be vented if it is to be used for central heating and/or to generate hot water. The
wood-burner can be connected directly to a radiator system or indirectly to an under-floor heating
system via a thermal store.
Deciding on types and options
The choice is great and stove costs vary immensely, but pick a model with a clean-burn or clean-heat
system and your heating solution becomes even greener. These styles of wood burning stove re-
circulate the combustible gases which are given off as the wood burns, thus increasing the heating
benefit and reducing emissions. Whichever you choose, the chimney will need to be lined and this
additional cost should be taken into consideration.
Winning efficiency
Wood burning stoves are much more efficient than any open grate fire. Most of the draughts in
houses with fires are caused by hot air – that’s the air which you’ve paid to heat – shooting up the
chimney and sucking in cold air from outside to replace it.
While an open fire has been estimated to be only around 20-25% efficient, wood burning stoves
achieve efficiency of over 80% – an instant and impressive energy saving.
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