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We supply both wood burning and multi-fuel stoves from three manufacturers, NunnaUuni, Nibe & Woodwarm. Please click on the products at the bottom of the page to get further information on these stoves
Wood is a renewable resource for timber structures, high grade insulation and as a fuel. It is one of the most important locally-produced and renewable energy sources. It can be obtained in quantity from sustainably managed woods and forests without needing to transport it a great distance. Wood is a natural fuel that grows by converting solar energy. Leaving wood to rot releases as much carbon dioxide (CO2) as when it is incinerated. Heating with wood is therefore CO2-neutral. Wood as a fuel can be obtained in different forms, in billets, wood chip and wood pellets, the last as a by-product of wood machining.
Wood can be burned cleanly and efficiently by well designed modern systems. There are two ways in the way that it can be used for heating. The first is to produce radiant heat, the second is for heating water.
Every year, 8.5 million tons of wood are thrown into landfill and, according to the Forestry Commission, better management of Britain’s forests could produce an extra 10 million tons of wood fuel every year.
What is more, tree stocks are on the increase: while at the turn of the last century only five per cent of England was forested, by the new millennium that figure had increased to about 8.5 per cent and today it is around 12 per cent.
“Of all fuels, wood is the most accessible to individuals,” says Keith Hall, editor of The Green Building Bible (www.greenbuildingbible.co.uk)and owner of no fewer than three wood-burning stoves on his west Wales farm. “It is also one of the cleanest sources of energy: it is renewable and produces fewer carbon emissions than fossil fuels.”
Modern double combustion wood burners enable 90 per cent of smoke and particles to be converted to heat, keeping emissions to a minimum. (Daily Telegraph extract - www.telegraph.co.uk)
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