Stoves best options available on the home heating scene.

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For all the intrepid pioneers who have left the grid behind and are making a go of it on their own, wood stoves are one of the best options available anywhere on the home heating scene.

While dependence on the grid leaves us at the mercy of others, wood burning represents the ultimate example of self-sufficiency in action. If you are willing to get out there into the forest with your transport, your chainsaw, and your trusty axe, laziness and a poor work ethic are the only things that will prevent you from collecting enough wood to keep your family comfy and toasty throughout the long cold winter. Read more

Checking your stove in time for winter

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Winter is now with us and a wood burning stove will heat your homes to the maximum.

The trouble is with our busy lifestyles we tend not to check what is important to us until it goes wrong. Here are some very easy ways to ensure your stove is giving you maximum efficiency.

Check Your Door Seal for Leakage

Your wood stove door should fit tightly to keep the heat of the fire concentrated inside. To check it, you can lay a five pound note across the door gasket lengthwise and then close the door with the note still in it. If you can pull your money out with a quick tug, your door is too loose and you will want to tighten the latch described in your manufacturer’s instruction manual. If your gasket shows signs of wear or damage, you will need to replace it immediately. Read more

Must have in your home

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Every few years, there emerges a piece of kit for your home that is universally coveted by the homeowning classes. In the Seventies, for example, the avocado bathroom suite and the Magimix were the new plus ultra of the day. More recently the retro-American fridge-freezer and the baby espresso machine have been the siren song.

Today, however it is the wood-burning stove after which we lust. A roaring open fire with the heat escaping up the chimney is so yesterday. To be at the cutting edge these days, one needs a new generation wood burning stove.

Nowadays they come in all shapes and sizes boasting lots of different colours and designs, unlike years gone by. Read more

Beautiful Stoves For Your Home

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Beautiful stoves

These days they come in shiny red with curves; sleek stainless steel and angular; anthracite; oval or asymmetrical. There’s even one shaped like Darth Vader!

Others gleam in white enamel. You can have them installed in existing fireplaces, free standing with their own flue, even slotted neatly into dividing walls with openings both sides, to heat two rooms simultaneously.

Manufacturers of these wonderful new age appliances have seen the rapid growth in sales and have re-acted in a positive manner both in design and cost saving. The average price of a mid-range burner has in real terms reduced by 11.4% over the last four years. Read more

Friendly For The Environment

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Good for the environment

Wood-burning stoves could account for 10% of the UK Government’s carbon reduction targets by 2020, according to a UK-based trade body.

The Stove Industry Alliance (SIA) said that wood-burning stoves also have the potential to produce 25% of the government’s domestic renewable heat energy target by 2020.

According to the trade body, wood-burning stoves have experienced a huge upsurge in popularity over the past decade.

More than one million UK homes are already using wood-burning stoves and fireplaces, and annual UK sales of more than 200,000 units. Read more

Upgrade Your Home

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Simply an upgrade

 

Is this you?

 

Last winter, we spent our weekends alternately freezing, coaxing a reluctant fire alight, opening all the doors to let the smoke out, freezing, and finally giving in and turning on the electric heater. Our house stank of charred logs and wood smoke. The grate was a sad black hole. And it was cold, despite the central heating. Read more

Stove Sales Have Increased Significantly

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Sales on the up!

Over the last 2 years wood burning stove sales have increased significantly, but the last 12 months has seen exceptional growth. Retailers all over the Country are reporting increased sales and we at Kent Stoves can confirm these findings.

The reasons for the growth is purely down to increasing oil and gas prices and when you think a stove radiates five times the heat of a regular fireplace it’s little wonder why. Read more

Wood Stove or Open Fireplace? Whats Best?

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Wood Stove or an open Fireplace?

Each unit uses wood as the fuel source, which is easy to come by and relatively inexpensive when bought, but there are major differences in the efficiency levels of fireplaces and stoves. Wood fireplaces are best used to heat a single room because during combustion, a fireplace takes in air from inside your home and may bring it in from outside to send smoke and CO up the chimney. This can bring a draft through the house, so you benefit from less of the fire’s heat. A stove, on the other hand, is potentially 50% more energy efficient and uses a third less wood for the equivalent heat output.  Read more

Are Wood burning stoves The Way Forward?

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Why wood burning stoves?

Wood burning stoves are becoming more popular as the threat of increased heating bills become reality. Here are just three reasons why you may wish to install one in your house. Read more

All Round Value On Wood burning stoves

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Wood burning stoves equal all round value

Buying a wood-burning stove is a relatively big decision, but besides the potential money-saving aspect, their legions of fans swear by the cosy feeling that one brings to a home. Not getting all romantic about it, we are drawn to an open fire and the there’s a different feel to wood-burning than there is to oil or gas.

Wood burning stoves have enjoyed a huge surge in popularity of late, becoming a must-have addition for chic homes and certainly, there’s a lot to love about them. They look great and, in addition to being a design focal point in any room, they run at an 80pc efficiency, which means lower fuel bills. Read more