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With today's rising costs for fuel to heat the home, many housekeepers are now looking for alternative methods for heating their house. With many properties running on central heating this system is often powered by a gas boiler or electric thermostats and heaters, this can prove to be very costly so another alternative has to be converting your fireplace to act as a wood burner. The conversion itself is very simple and often the same flue or chimney system can be used. Some of the wood burners can even run from a flue that is directed out of the house at bottom storey level as they fumes released from the wood are not toxic unlike some of the gas appliances.
The fireplace surrounds are not affected, any model of surround is purely in the fireplace to neaten off the edges and provide a decorative design to the room, the major conversion involves removing the gas fire or electric fire and replacing this with a basket style fitment that will hold the logs or wood and a small cover at the bottom to allow air flow to run through the wood as it burns.
Like coal fires, wood burning fireplaces do require maintenance and every morning, ashes etc. will need to be removed to leave the fireplace clean ready for loading up with logs or wood so that it can be ignite again to provide warmth for that day. Wood burning fireplaces may require a back boiler to be fitted as the one fireplace will not be capable of heating the whole house so this should be taken into consideration if you are relying on using this system to heat everywhere.
Logs to use for these fireplaces are normally readily available and it does cut costs if you buy in bulk, often a home owner will buy enough wood in to last all through the winter so ensure that you do have the storage space. If you are lucky enough to live in the countryside, then wood burning fireplaces are ideal as often nature will provide you with a bulk of the wood required from fallen trees or a nearby forest but never take the wood without permission.
Suppliers of Wood Burning Fireplaces
- www.saxonhomecare.co.uk
This company has a large showroom in the UK where they stock all different types of fireplaces and inserts covering gas, electric, wood burning and multi-fuel fireplaces. Prices for their products are available over the phone and they will supply brochures if requested. - www.firesonline.co.uk
A well established company that has been supplying fireplaces and accessories for nearly 30 years, in 2000 they placed their website online so that customers were able to browse through their full range of products. They offer a wide range of wood burning stoves and fireplace accessories to match. Prices start from £650 for a basic model up to £1500 for the larger and more stylish models. - www.qualitystoves.co.uk
As above, this company has been established for 30 years and can provide a full range of products to meet your requirements. They deliver free around the UK but they can also deliver to Europe for a charge. Prices a;so start at the £650 mark up to £2000 for the larger models.
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