https://notes.io/wNpzm Why a Wood Burning Stove Should Be Properly Sized and Installed Wood stoves are a great, clean way to heat your home. However wood stoves need to be properly sized and installed for maximum efficiency. Be careful not to open and close the door to the wood stove often as this can create a vortex that sucks smoke and unburnt volatile compounds back into the room. Energy Efficiency A wood burning stove uses radiant heat to warm your home, rather than relying on hot air that is blown in through the home's ventilation system. This is more efficient way of heating as it provides powerful warmth that radiates from all sides of the stove, warming your entire home rather than just one central area. Modern wood stoves are designed to be as energy efficient as they can be. Manufacturers have to meet stricter regulations regarding emissions and the most efficient way to achieve this is to make their stoves more energy efficient. The vast majority of our stoves (both DEFRA approved and EPA certified) have official efficiency ratings of more than 70%, which means that a large portion of the heat that is produced is used to warm your home instead of being lost up the chimney. Another benefit of using a wood burning stove is that it offers an independent source of heat. Unlike gas and electricity, a wood burner will still provide warmth even during an outage of gas or electricity, as long as you have enough logs in your. Wood burning stoves also offer a more reliable heating option than other heaters because they don't require electricity or oil to run. This is particularly important in remote areas where other energy sources are susceptible to disruption for a long time. A quality log burner is able to operate at around 80% efficiency which means that a significant portion of the heat created is actually being used to warm your home. This is a huge improvement over older stoves that typically operated at less than 20% efficiency. It is also one of the reason