Changing over to a Wood Burning heaters

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With the price of natural gas and electric incressing every year

have you ever thought of changing the way u heat ur home.

There seems to be a great number of home owners doing just that.

One main reason for this tendency is, oddly enough, environmental plus points. Burning wood clearly does emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (wood is essentially made from carbon) but this is only the same carbon that the tree itself originally soaked up from the atmosphere initially. And when, as is the case in managed forests and woodlands, a new tree is grown to replace the one chopped down for firewood, it will soak up a volume of CO2 identical to that released by the burning process.

Put simply, wood burning forms an endlessly replenishable cycle. Quite unlike burning fossil fuels (i.e. coal and gas), burning wood maintains an vital symmetry between the CO2 released into the environment and the CO2 continuously locked up all over again by the cultivation of new trees.

Associated with the ecological arguments in favor of wood burners, there is also the matter of official polices plus incentives. Considering the present day focus on carbon emissions and the drive to "zero-carbon" homes, not only would fitting a wood burning stove aid the process of acquiring any necessary compliance, it is in many circumstances positively encouraged and even rewarded with fiscal incentives.

Another understandable justification is most probably money. The wood stove may be a costly product to acquire as well as install (though not hugely greater than a normal boiler system) but the running costs represent pretty significant cost savings overall. Countryside locations especially, in which using the mains utilities might be problematic but timber is usually abundant and to hand, can offer quite striking examples of just how low cost a wood burning system is in many cases.

Then of course there is the bewildering diversity and versatility associated with modern day wood burners. They are available in many styles and sizes (though the conventional black metal type modeled on the original Franklin wood stove still seems endlessly popular) and are able to perform quite an array of different tasks.

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I have a fairly big house and we installed a huge wood/coal stove about ten years ago and I have no regrets!

We only fill our oil tanks once per winter. We use the wood and coal for 95% of our heating.

It's unlike any other heat. It's a moist, very warm heat. It's warmer because of the moisture.

It sure is a lot less expensive too. And as I said we have a pretty big house with four bedrooms and the furnace will run you out it gets so warm.

It definitely helps that my husband does trees for a living so the firewood is free for us. The only real cost we have is in the electricity for the blowers but that is so minimal we don't even notice a difference on our electric bill.

Of course there is a downside to it. It is dirtier. But as long as you keep up with you cleaning you won't notice excess dust either.

I highly recomend it. It has saved us a fortune over the years.

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You are so right, having a woodburner does save a lot of money on your heating bills during the winter months.

But before you install one or have it installed, be sure to check to see that it is okay to do so in your area.

Also, make sure all safety measures are taken to prevent any accidents when using a wood burner.

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Thats for sure flippinout. We took a lot of safety measures to ensure that it would be safe. We purchased the doube-wall pipe. We completely remortared the chimney and we clean it every year because it can become clogged posing a fire hazzard. I'm sure there were other things done as well that I don't even know about. Thats my husbands expertise... not mine lol. I just know that we save a lot of money and so far we have been quite safe and best of all... warm!!

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You know, all this talk about heating the home with a wood furnace or whatever really got me thinking about how lucky we are to have the ability to keep warm and to keep our kids warm.

Lots of folks in this world aren't as fortunate as we are.

Many families have no heat in their homes. They cannot afford the oil, electric, wood or whatever it is that they need. It's really sad.

So this being the Holiday Season I would like everyone to stop and think about others. Look around your own neighborhood. If you know of someone that may be having a hard time help them out a little if you can.

Doing any little thing is better than nothing at all.

Let's all try to keep everyone warm this winter.