Buying A Wood Stove? 8 Tips To Watch Out For

In this blog, I will give you eight tips to keep in mind when buying a wood stove. I bought a self-catering stove and have good experiences. Before we purchased this stove, we did a thorough investigation. We have been in business for a couple of months. And after all, we learned, after we bought the stove. We would like to share our experiences with you at Houhetwarm.nl. Can it be a wood stove in your house? Go first look or a wood stove or can in your house. If not, buying a wood stove does not make sense . You can not place a wood stove if you have no chimney or no possibility of pulling a pipe through the floors in your house. (It's also difficult to place a wood stove if you live on a floor in a flat). Porous Do you have a chimney? First, make sure it is completely open, from bottom to top and then check if there are no cracks in which the smoke can sip through. If you do not trust, hire a licensed heating company to check or damage repair. They have the equipment to check the chimney. (Such a company drops a small camera into the chimney and in that way controls the walls). Where do you want to use the wood stove for? Ask yourself seriously where you want to use the wood stove. Occasionally an evening? Just for the coziness? Or, like us, you are looking for a good alternative to central heating. We were looking for a wood stove that could warm the living room well and preferably the whole house. Type The way you use the stove determines the size and type of wood stove. We also wanted a stove for the whole house, but that, and of course we could think of that, do not go. Or open the doors upwards, but you'll get the cold back into the room. The size of the heater. Very important! Why? The size of the heater determines the space you can heat. Logical, the bigger the stove, the larger the space you can heat. There are lists that exactly indicate the size of your living space and the power of the heater so that he can produce heat, which is indicated in kilowatt (kW). It is assumed that you need 1 Kw to heat a ten-square meter (10 m²) space. Convection heat or radiant heat? There are many types of wood stoves available on the internet. A difficult choice, which wood stove is suitable for your living situation and meets your requirements. First of all, you can look at the kind of heat that a stove releases. You can choose wood stoves with so-called convection heat or a wood-burning stove with radiant heat. Convection heat is a tricky concept but means as much as the heat of the heater is spread through the air in the room. (This also applies to the central heating radiators. Also here are the air currents that heat the room). Thus, in the case of convection heat, the warm air rises. Radiation heat, on the other hand, is the heat that is emitted directly by the heater. The closer you get to the heater, the warmer it is. Most stoves that are sold are wood heaters with radiant heat. But there are also wood stoves that work with convection heat, often made of steel. These heaters are much more expensive. Both types of stoves have their pros and cons. Advantages of convection heat at a wood stove:

• The heat dissipates well through the room, as well as rooms with a corner
• Directly by the heater it is less hot. You can put items close to the heater without risking them
• You burn a little less quickly on this kind of stoves. Child friendly so
• There are ever better, and more beautifully shaped wood stoves on the market with convection heat

Disadvantages of convection heat at a wood stove:

• The heat rises upwards. Then it's warm in the room, but you have cold feet
• Air circulation causes dust displacement. Just like dust on the radiator

Advantages of radiant heat at a wood stove:

• Radiation heat feels good. You can warm up well by sitting close to the heater
• All objects in the vicinity of the heater warm up and therefore heat off

Disadvantages of radiant heat at a wood stove:

• It takes a while before the heater is hot
• The heat dissipates initially around the heater, only later through the room

What kind of wood stove do you want to buy? If you have chosen the size of the heater, the choice for the kind of stove will follow. There are different types available like Woodburning Stoves Huddersfield, cast iron wood stoves, steel wood stoves, casseroles, tiled stoves and pellet stoves and variants on this. For the cast iron heater you pay the least. If you want to warm the stove occasionally, a simple cast iron stove is perfect. Baking stove If you want to use the heater instead of the cv, choose a tile or tile stove. And if you want to heat a large workshop or shed, focus your search on a pellet stove.