Woodburning stoves

3 months ago

Would you always have a wood-burning stove in a kitchen/living area if it fits? or are there some cons to making it cosy? Welcome your thoughts!

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Sonia

3 months ago

I wouldn’t have one anywhere due to their polluting the inside and the outside of the home, especially if any residents are asthmatic.

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Jonathan
3 months ago
I’m with Sonia- the idea of burning a fuel in the air we breathe is counter intuitive. Plus everyone I know who had one felt they only had two temperatures….. off and hotter than the surface of the sun.
So I’m not a fan in fact I have taken them out of two houses I have lived in.
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Isla Cherry
3 months ago
I had a beautiful huge Morso in our last barn conversion. I also agree with Sonia and Jonathan 100%. Clean heat is the future.
Jonathan
3 months ago
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/emissions-of-air-pollutants/emissions-of-air-pollutants-in-the-uk-particulate-matter-pm10-and-pm25

This states that wood burning stoves contribute 17% of our countries small particle pollution which is about the same as all the UKs power stations that burn fossil fuels.
mii2
3 months ago
Interesting article Johnathan. Interesting to see that biofuel combustion to provide green electricity and using a car, however green its fuel, are major sources of these particles, and thus all households, including those who are anti wood burners, and those with electric cars are responsible for their production. Also worth considering here on houzz is the impact of demolition and building works on local airborne concentrations. Pollution is made by all of us, whatever the form of heating we use or cars we drive, what is different is whether it’s affecting our local air quality.
Jonathan
3 months ago
@mii2 You can’t compare the environmental impact of a wood burning stove to the dust created when demolishing something! You can only compare the different forms of the same things- electric cars produce less small particle pollution that petrol and diesel cars. And wood burning stoves create far more pollution than any other way of heating your home. Don’t get caught up in whataboutery and forget that the oldest wood burning stoves are shown to produce 3700 times the small partial pollution of gas central heating, newer stoves it’s 450 times the pollution of gas central heating. These are not opinions to debate it’s just counting.

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