Wood burning, gas and electric stoves

Heat output is the thing to get right, and it is counter-intuitive. A stove sized for the room you imagine rather than the room you have will run throttled back, burn dirty, glaze the glass and make the space genuinely unpleasant. A well-insulated modern living room often needs far less than people expect. We calculate it properly on the survey rather than guessing from a floor plan.

Beyond that the choice is about what you want from it. Solid fuel gives you live flame and the ritual, with a flue, a hearth and an annual sweep as the price. Gas versions of the same stove bodies are often hard to tell apart and light at the flick of a switch, with no re-fuelling and no cleaning out. Electric stoves need nothing but a socket, which makes them the practical answer for conservatories, hallways and smaller rooms with no chimney.

All of our solid fuel work is carried out by HETAS registered engineers and all gas work by Gas Safe registered engineers, with the appropriate certificate issued on completion.