Wood-stoves

A room warmed by a wood-burning stove is one of life’s pleasures and with oil and gas prices rocketing and their ever increasing impact on the environment, we are all looking for alternative ‘carbon neutral’ ways of heating our home.
People have started to realise that coal is a fossil fuel and burning it unlocks carbon that's bad for the environment, but wood however is cheaper and it's also green to burn - it's totally carbon neutral.

Wood-burning stoves are possibly one of the most environmentally friendly and efficient forms of heating there is.  By connecting a wood burning stove to the boiler or central heating, a whole house can be heated on logs alone.  This will cut carbon emissions by 100% and will also save money on heating bills.

How does a modern wood-stove work?

New generations of clean burning stoves are much more efficient than models of the past. Most modern wood-burning stoves burn the fuel not once, but twice by introducing warm air just above the normal height of the fire. The effect is to allow the combustion of unburned hydrocarbons in the smoke stream. This in turn provides not only a ‘cleaner burn’ (i.e. less soot particles going up the chimney/flue and into the atmosphere) but also generates up to twice the heat output from the same amount of fuel. Furthermore, you will enjoy the sight of even more flames.