Rising fuel bills are on the way
Due to rising fuel bills homeowners are seeking different cost-effective heating options. Wood burning stoves are a very real alternative. These days wood burners offer an impressive range of options to meet your home’s needs. Long gone are the days when wood burners were seen as an ugly and dirty heating source.
Plus points of a wood burning stove
- The net fuel cost is cheaper than heating oil, natural gas, and electricity.
- Wood sourced locally can be free
- Fuel in the form of logs, wood chips, brush clippings is renewable, and sustainable.
If you combine these advantages along with the elegance a wood burner brings to your home its worth considering without doubt.
Act now for a warmer winter
Wood stove owners tend to underestimate just how much moisture firewood contains. Nothing will cause your stove to function less efficiently than to fill it with green wood, so to avoid the problem you should begin the seasoning process in the early spring if you want your wood to be ready by the next winter. To make life a lot easier you can buy a moisture content meter to measure your woods consistency, ask locally or search the www.
If you plan to use any wood that is larger than normal, you will need to set it out to dry even earlier. Essentially, you should be harvesting your wood about 18 months in advance of when you actually plan to burn it, if you want to guarantee that it will be properly seasoned.
Help needed?
If you would like to explore your heating options please do make contact and one of our qualified fitters (HETAS registered) will be happy to assist.
