Why Install a Wood Burning Stove?

• A warm and beautiful focal point for your home
• Burning wood is a sustainable, carbon-neutral source of heat. Wood as a fuel has a positive impact on the environment in many ways - see Carbon Neutral
• A low-cost alternative or supplement to gas, electric or oil-fired heating. If used effectively, you will see savings on your fuels bills immediately and with fossil fuels prices set to rise by around 40% by January 2011 this is going to become increasingly beneficial
• An independent source of energy - A back-up source of heat for your home should our national energy supply chain be temporarily interrupted.
• With the right fuel you can keep them burning 24hrs a day
• A radiant source of heat, a real log fire has a strong feel good factor and is able to keep rooms at temperatures that oil or gas can struggle to reach
• Wood-burning and muti fuel stoves are easy to use and, with the latest clean burn systems, have minimal smoke emissions and produce low volumes of ash.
• With their state of the art technology, our stoves are 75-85% efficient, compared to around 10-15% for a traditional open grate fire
• There are many styles of stove to suit your home - from contemporary free standing stoves to more traditional styles which fit beautifully into a Victorian or Georgian fireplace.
• Using wood as a fuel is beneficial to our local wildlife and economy. See Carbon Neutral.
• Wood-burning stoves are cheap to run and require minimal maintenance
• Your house will achieve a better energy rating when coming to sell
• Installing a stove will give you around 5 times the heat output of an open fire and will stop draughts and energy loss through the existing chimney
• Stoves that burn with the highest efficiencies provide the most attractive visual flame effects whilst having the cleanest stove windows and flues. They also produce very little smoke or ash