Choosing a stove If you are purchasing a stove for the first time, we can offer the following advice to help you purchase the correct stove for your requirements. The most important thing to consider when buying a stove is the output you will need to heat the room in which the stove will be situated.
Please remember that this is only a rough guide for an average sized room. Other factors you need to keep in mind are the number of doors and windows in the room and if you have stairs leading off the room the output required may be increased. |
You may also want to thinks about the size of the stove in relation to where it will be installed; usually this will be a chimney opening. For more advice, contact Matt or Martin or pop into our showroom, based in Ottery St Mary, near Exeter. What to burn... For optimum results, we recommend logs should be seasoned for 2 years or more to achieve moisture content below 20%. This will not only give twice the output of freshly felled timber but help avoid a build up of tar in your flue. Furthermore hardwood logs have a greatly increased calorific value of softwoods for the same volume and also contain less sap. |
Here in our showrooms we hold stock of kiln dried hardwood logs in handly sized sealed bags or for bulk purchaces of logs we also recommend a local log dealer Wood-Burning or Multi-Fuel? When choosing your stove it is important to know what fuel you will be using as wood and solid fuel burn in different ways. Wood burns well sat on a bed of ash with air circulating above it, in comparison with solid fuel which will not burn unless there is air circulating below. |