https://www.openlearning.com/u/myrickcrews-sp8ejo/blog/TheAdvancedGuideToWoodBurningStoves Why a Wood Burning Stove Should Be Properly Sized and Installed Wood stoves are an excellent, safe method of heating your home. A wood stove should be installed and sized correctly to ensure the highest efficiency. Avoid opening and closing the doors to your wood stove too frequently as this creates a vortex that sucks smoke and volatile compounds that are not burned back into the room. Energy Efficiency Radiant heat is utilized to warm the house instead of hot air carried into the home by its ventilation system. This is a more effective method of heating your home as the radiant heat radiates out from all sides. Modern wood stoves are designed to be as energy efficient as is possible. Manufacturers must comply with stricter regulations regarding emissions and the most efficient method to do this is by making their stoves more energy efficient. The vast majority of our stoves (both DEFRA approved and EPA certified) have efficiency ratings of over 70%, which means that a lot more of the heat produced is utilized to heat your home, instead of being lost up the chimney. A wood burner can also be an energy source that is totally independent. A wood burner can provide warmth during a power cut or gas shortage, if you have enough logs. Wood burning stoves are also a more reliable heating option than other heaters because they don't require oil or electricity to run. This is especially true in remote regions where other sources of energy are susceptible to disruption for a long time. A high-quality stove will heat your home at 80% efficiency. This is a huge improvement over older stoves that typically operated at less then 20 percent efficiency. It is also one of the main reasons why a new stove is a wise investment. A catalytic wood stove can recycle the gasses and smoke that leaves the firebox through secondary combustion to further increase efficiency. Non-catalytic wood stoves ar