A modern woods stove, insert, or fireplace is an excellent choice as a primary source of heat for your home.
Heating your home with a modern wood stove is both economical and eco-friendly, not to mention the bonus of the coziness and beauty.
While open, wood burning fireplaces do not generate a meaningful amount of heat, modern wood burning stoves, inserts and fireplaces are intended to be used as the primary source of heat for your home.
With overnight burn times and air controls, heating your home with wood is now simple and green.
Are People Still Heating With Wood?
Yes! Modern wood stoves are clean-burning, highly efficient, and use wood, a renewable fuel source.
Today’s EPA-certified stoves produce significantly fewer emissions than older wood-burning appliances, and are incentivized by the Monterey Bay Air Resources District.
Is Heating Your House with Wood Eco-Friendly?
Heating your home with a modern wood stove is eco-friendly. Wood is a renewable fuel source, locally sourced and carbon neutral.
The pollution controls are what make a modern wood stove a better and more efficient heater. A very old wood stove or open, wood burning fireplace can produce 100 grams of emissions per hour. Particulate emissions are fuel going up the chimney and polluting the air, instead of being turned into heat for your home.
Modern wood fireplaces have pollution controls that burn those particulate emissions inside the stove, so that what’s coming out the chimney is mostly steam.
All modern, EPA certified wood stoves emit less than 2 grams of emissions per hour.
Project Cost
Different options for brand and material, along with variables with installation make it so there is a wide range of cost for getting a wood stove.
Your local fireplace store will be able to give you specific pricing so that you know exactly how much the project will be before you commit to moving forward.
How to Get Started
Stop by your local fireplace store and have an industry professional help you pick the right wood stove for you.
It’s good to be prepared with the approximate square footage of the space you’re heating. Photos are also helpful, especially if you’re interested in getting an insert.
While in the showroom you can look at displays and make choices about which options will be best for you and your home. If you need an installer, a professional installer will then come to your home for a site check.
They will put together your pipe list, make sure everything will fit and look nice, then give you an exact bid for installation.
Retailer
There are many decisions to be made when choosing a fireplace. These decisions can be made easier by working with a great local retailer.
The best stores will have knowledgeable, experienced staff who can help walk you through the project. They’ll be able to provide technical advice, or connect you with a qualified, experienced installer if needed.
The store you choose to do business with will help you with post-installation service and answer any questions that come up.
A high-quality fireplace is built to last 20-25 years, so the folks you choose to work with are people you’ll be connected to for years to come.
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Please consider choosing Woodstove & Sun to help you with your fireplace or outdoor living needs. We offer wood, gas, pellet and electric stoves, fireplaces and inserts, as well as POLYWOOD outdoor furniture, fire pits, pizza ovens, custom outdoor kitchens, Infratech heating and True refrigeration.
Our showroom is located at 510 Soquel Ave in Santa Cruz. Please call, email or stop by! Our friendly staff will be happy to help you and answer any further questions you may have to begin this process. We can be reached at (831) 425-5123 and woodstoveandsun@gmail.com.
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