Buying Wood Stove- A Complete Guide for Beginners

1. Buying Wood Stove- A Complete Guide for Beginners How does a wood stove work? Wood stoves are available in a wide variety of designs. Pre-assembled stoves that are ready for connection, as you can order here, are also known as chimney or Swedish stoves. These usually have a body made of cast iron or sheet steel. In addition, they can be clad with a wide variety of materials. On the one hand, this can be done for purely aesthetic reasons. On the other hand, materials such as soapstone offer an additional heat storage effect. The combustion chamber inside the body is often lined with chamotte or vermiculite. Chamotte has a heat storage effect similar to that of soapstone. Vermiculite, on the other hand, has excellent insulating properties. In any case, such a combustion chamber lining protects the cast iron or steel body from the effects of excessive heat. This means that your wood stove will last longer. The modern wood stove usually has a window that gives you a comprehensive view of the fire. The heat is released into the room through a combination of radiation and convection. For this reason, warmth from the fireplace is often perceived as more comfortable compared to central heating, which only uses convection for heating. To ensure that the logs burn as cleanly and completely as possible, sufficient oxygen must of course be supplied to the combustion chamber. For this purpose, primarily the so-called primary air flows into the combustion chamber from below. The secondary air enters the chimney from above, slides along the viewing window and thus circulates through the combustion chamber. Its task is to ignite the gases emerging from the wood in order, among other things, to prevent the pane from fogging up and sooting. This draft is also called a windshield flush. Last but not least, some models also have tertiary air. It ensures that exhaust gases and flue gas components still burn in the chimney and do not get into the environment through the chimney.

2. How many kW should the wood stove produce? One of the most important questions when buying a fireplace is: How much heating power do I need for my home? Because the heating output of the wood-burning fireplace should be matched to the heat demand of the room to be heated. Otherwise it can quickly happen that the oven heats too much or too little. The heating output is usually given in kilowatts (kW). A typical wood burning stove, which should only be used to heat your living room or kitchen, usually offers an output between 3 and 12 kW. But how do you find out which size is sufficient for your purposes? We are happy to provide you with the rule of thumb: To heat one square meter of moderately insulated living space, you need an average of 0.1 kW. So if you want to heat your kitchen-living room of 50 square meters with your wood stove in the future, you will also need 5 kW of power. This sample calculation is intended to give you an orientation, but it cannot be applied to every situation without restrictions. If you have any questions or need help with the decision, please contact our competent specialist advisors. They will be happy to help you. What do you have to consider when installing a fireplace stove? In order for you to be able to set up a wood stove in your home, you must of course observe a few legal requirements. After all, the chimney sweep has to take one last

3. look over your stove and its connection in order to ultimately remove it. First of all, the correct connection to a chimney or chimney is fundamental. So you should have a chimney sweep examine an existing hood to see if it can also be used for your wood-burning fireplace. If there is no chimney, you need to find out whether it is possible to retrofit it. In addition, you must also pay attention to the minimum distances to flammable materials. Because in order to minimize the risk of fire in your own four walls, the prescribed safety distances to furniture and walls must be observed. If the floor is also flammable (e.g. parquet), a fire-proof base, for example in the form of a spark protection plate, must be provided. The exact dimensions and information can usually be found in the operating instructions for your wood-burning stove. If you are still concerned with the question of where to place your wood-burning stove, then you should definitely consider these things.