How much space do you need to leave around a wood-burning stove?

You’re thinking about fitting a wood-burning stove and you’ve got the perfect space set aside for it. But have you left enough space?

If you don’t find a spot with enough space around your woodburner to satisfy both the manufacturer’s recommendations and legal requirements you risk damaging your property, voiding insurance policies and endangering lives. We don’t want that, so make sure there is going to be enough space around your woodburner before buying an appliance.

Deciding how much room to leave around the woodburner is influenced by two main factors:

  1. Distance to combustible materials
  2. Distance to non-combustible materials.

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What is the difference between a wood-burning stove and a multi-fuel stove?

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If you’re thinking about installing a wood-burning stove in your home, one of the first things you need to decide is whether it’s really a woodburner you want or a multi-fuel stove.

So, what’s the difference?

The biggest difference between the two is indicated by their names. A wood-burning stove is only equipped to burn wood. Multi-fuel stoves can also burn wood, but you have the additional option of burning other solid fuels. Continue reading

Use a moisture meter to save even more money with your wood-burning stove

Moisture Meter Woodburner

Once you have met the cost of installing a wood-burning stove, it’s down to the way you operate the stove to ensure it saves you as much money as possible.

One of the best ways to ensure you use your stove efficiently is to burn seasoned wood. This is wood that has been cut, chopped and left to dry and air for a prolonged period of time. Continue reading

How to replace cracked glass on a wood-burning stove

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Is the glass cracked in the door of your wood-burning stove?

If so, there’s no need to go to the expense of buying a new wood-burning stove. Instead you just need to replace the glass.

The important thing is that you do something: the glass is coping with the extreme temperatures that your stove generates. If you spot any breaks, holes or cracks, then the glass will be weakened. It’s best to replace it as soon as possible rather than risk the whole thing shattering one day. Continue reading

4 great value wood-burning stoves for less than £400

If you’d love a wood-burning stove for your home but are trying to achieve that on a budget, you might find the answer in this blog post.

We’re going to run through some of our best value wood-burning stoves. None of the wood-burners in this list cost more than £400, yet some of them generate a heat output of as much as 8kW.

So, without further ado, here are five stoves you can buy for less than £400.

Mazona Ripley 4 kW Ecodesign Ready Multi-fuel Stove

The Mazona Ripley comes in a range of heat outputs, including this 4 kW versions. It’s very reasonably priced at just £290. That’s particularly good value when you consider it comes with a five year warranty, is Ecodesign ready and looks as good as you can see from the photo above. Continue reading

Five beautiful Victorian and Edwardian style wood-burning stoves

If you’ve got a lovely Victorian property with the many period features associated with homes built in the mid-to-late 1800s, the last thing you want to do is install a wood-burning stove that looks entirely out of place.

Fortunately, we stock a number of stoves that combine the best of ornate Victorian design with the very latest technology. And we’ve got other contemporary stoves that are suited to period homes.

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