Installing a woodburning stove for logs
by Angus, 28 March, 2013, 5 comments
The twin challenges of modern life are: keeping warm in winter and reducing your carbon emissions - one way of achieving both is to buy a woodland and install a wood burning stove at home! Having owned a woodland for many years, I recently decided the time had come to for me to switch our heating to log burning, so I set about asking friends and researching which stoves were best and how it would all work.
You will find that asking about heating is one of those secret conversation topics (a bit like asking a group of men what women really want) that gets everyone going and you can pick up lots of practical advice this way - about stoves, not women. In preparing for our stove my first action was to get the chimney swept (cost £50) and get a certificate from the sweep so that the installers would be sure that it was safe and had a good upward draught. Read more...
