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A stove can help reduce your heating costs in the right home, particularly if you spend most of your time in one or two rooms rather than heating the whole house. Instead of turning the central heating up everywhere, a stove gives you a strong source of heat in the room you’re actually using. Whether it saves you money will depend on the stove, the fuel you buy, your home and how you normally heat it.
This is probably where a stove can be most useful. If you spend most evenings in the living room, a stove gives you a strong source of heat in that space without needing to rely entirely on the central heating. For some homes, particularly larger properties, that can be a practical way to use heat more selectively.
There isn’t one simple answer because the cost of firewood varies considerably.
How much fuel you use will also depend on:
If you have access to reasonably priced firewood, the figures can look very different from someone buying small quantities of logs throughout the winter. That’s why we wouldn’t give one fixed running cost and suggest it applies to everyone.
A bigger stove isn’t automatically better. If the output is much higher than the room needs, you can quickly make the room too hot and end up running the stove lower than intended. A correctly sized stove should be much easier to use comfortably and efficiently.
Our guide to choosing the right stove size for your room explains how to work out a useful starting point from your room measurements.
The fuel you burn makes a big difference to how well a wood-burning stove performs. Dry wood burns much better than wet logs. If you’re buying firewood, look for suitable dry fuel and follow the recommendations for your particular stove. Trying to save money by burning poor-quality or wet wood is usually false economy because more of the heat is wasted driving moisture from the logs.
A stove can be particularly attractive in homes that don’t have access to mains gas and rely on other forms of heating. It gives you another heating option and means you’re not completely dependent on one source. Whether it works out cheaper will still depend on what you currently use and what you pay for fuel.
Saving on heating is one reason people buy a stove, but it usually isn’t the only one. A real fire changes the feel of a room in a way that a radiator doesn’t. For many customers, the combination of useful heat and having a real flame is the attraction. We’d choose a stove that suits the room, fireplace and way you intend to use it rather than simply buying the highest-output model in the hope of cutting your bills.
You can browse our full range of wood-burning and multi-fuel stoves.
It can, but there isn’t one answer that applies to every home. The cost of your fuel, how well insulated the property is, how often you use the stove and how much heat the room needs will all make a difference. If you’re considering a stove and aren’t sure what output would suit your room, send us your room measurements and we’ll help you narrow down the options.
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