Wood Stove Benefits

Safe, Alternative Warmth with Renewable Wood Heat

Wood stoves have always been the traditional hearth with their safe, renewable, energy efficient wood heat. Wood stoves provide warmth, economy, and natural crackling romantic flames. Heating your home with renewable fire wood heat is the ultimate green alternative. EPA approved higher quality wood stoves offer efficiencies in the 80% range. This rivals many furnaces and other heating options that cost far more for both your wallet and the earth. Wood heat is the environmentally friendly choice as well as for your wallet.

Wood stoves are available on either legs or on a pedestal. Most come with an ash pan. Stoves on pedestals generally have a larger ash pans than those on legs. Freestanding wood stoves need to be on a hearth pad or other noncombustible surface to protect the floor and surrounding area from being damaged by the heat.Wood stoves are also available as a fireplace insert. A wood stove fireplace insert is a wood stove firebox with neither legs nor a pedestal. This woodstove firebox sits inside your existing masonry or zero clearance fireplace, with the front encompassed by a surround that seals up the rest of the fireplace opening keeping the fire wood heat inside your home and not going up the chimney. Usually fireplace inserts are purchased with a fan to circulate the air around the room. The fan or blower is usually is fitted on the bottom of the firebox.

A chimney liner is usually needed to vent the smoke up the chimney. Chimney liners are available in all size lengths and diameters for your installation. Most wood stove installations use a 5 to 6 inch wide stainless steel one piece coil chimney liner that goes all the way to the top of your chimney . Chimney liners have a special cap at the top to hold the chimney liner and keep animals and debris out of the liner and your wood or pellet stove.










All wood stoves must be installed as per requirements of local inspection authorities.
 
More benefits of a wood stove in your home include:

• Fire wood heat is the least expensive heating fuel option available.
• Today's wood stoves have emissions as low as .87 grams per hour.  Most gases and creosote are burned and utilized to give off more heat.
• Today's wood stove engineering greatly supersedes stoves designed even 10 years ago.
• Large fireboxes provide extended burn times, often up to 10 to 12 hours!
• Wood stoves are available in either steel or the beautiful, more traditional cast iron.

Wood stoves are the grandfather of alternative green heating.  Wood stoves perform without electricity, provide light through the glass door, and  last many years with minimal maintenance. All wood stoves available at Woodstove Warehouse have passed strict EPA emissions regulations and are built of solid heavyweight steel or cast iron.

Today's wood stoves burn so efficiently most customers find that ash removal is easy due to ash pan availability for most pedestal or leg models.  One might expect to remove ashes approximately every 7 to 14 days or so, depending upon the type of wood burned.  With the  airwash system design,  window glass stays clean with proper operation and allows for uncompromized viewing of the dramatic flames.

 Steel wood stoves are usually more economical to buy—often you get more stove while spending less money.  Steel wood stoves respond quickly to their controls.  Cast iron stoves have a smoother heating cycle, they take longer to heat up and they retain their warmth longer. 

Steel Wood Stoves at Woodstove Warehouse:

Regency Wood Stoves

Osburn Wood Stoves

Cast Iron Wood Stoves at Woodstove Warehouse:

Hampton Wood Stoves

Alderlea Wood Stoves

Napoleon Cast Iron Wood Stoves