CONGRATS TO OUR SUMMER E-BIKE HIRE WINNER: CLARE WEBB*
*This competition is now closed but you can still enter for the chance to win future competitions!
Wood stoves are becoming an increasingly popular choice not just for providing a focal point to a room allowing you to gaze into the flames, heating a single room, but also for providing cheap hot water for central heating and domestic hot water for the whole home. The boiler for a wood burning stove, although referred to as a back boiler, actually fits within the stove itself and so is unobtrusive. As well as traditional wood stoves, there are other stoves that are known as boilers, where the fuel can be pellets of wood (like pet litter) or wood chips. Some of these can be automatically fed and burn so cleanly that the ash only needs removing once a month.
Having a wood stove is fun. It's great to learn how to light a fire and keep it going, and also provides healthy exercise in chopping and stacking wood.
Using wood as a fuel source releases less carbon than using fossil fuels, and can also be truly sustainable if the wood is locally sourced and managed under the Forest Stewardship Council scheme.
Open Fire
This is what homes traditionally had, before the widespread adoption of gas-fired central heating in the 1960s and 1970s. However, they are only 5% – 10% fuel efficient.
Wood Burning Stove
This combines the focal point of the open fire with a stove that emits less dust and ash, that can be combined with a boiler to provide space heating and domestic hot water, and that is around 80% fuel efficient. This requires tending and cleaning in the same way as an open fire.
Pellet Boiler
Wood pellet boilers are fully automatic like a central heating boiler. The fuel comes in variable quantities and it will only need cleaning once a month. Wood pellets burn very efficiently.
Wood Chip Boiler
Wood chip boilers come in a wide range of sizes, from domestic sizes up to industrial devices capable of running a large district heating scheme. They are mainly used for larger scale heating systems. These are also fully automatic.
Log Boiler
Like wood chip boilers, these are generally used on a larger scale, and need to be used in conjunction with a large water storage tank.
If you install a Biomass Boiler between 20th May 2013 and March 2014, and have had a Green Deal Assessment carried out, you can get £2,000 towards the costs in the form of a voucher with the Renewable Heat Premium. (Smaller voucher amounts are available if the install was before 20th May 2013).
Plus look out for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) when you can earn a fixed income for every kilowatt/hour of heat you produce...
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CONGRATS TO OUR SUMMER E-BIKE HIRE WINNER: CLARE WEBB*
*This competition is now closed but you can still enter for the chance to win future competitions!