Wood burning stove, furnace or fireplace?

Heating with wood is an economical solution, if we forget the traditional open hearth fireplace whose performance is low. Technical solutions abound: for a supplemental heating or heating of the main housing. Discover the wood stove, wood boiler or wood burning fireplace insert through.

Wood-burning fireplace

The fireplaces with traditional fireplace experience high heat loss. Their performance is poor and does not exceed 20%. This means that 80% or more of the energy produced by burning firewood is lost through the pipe.

They do so not to heat properly , unless they are fitted with an insert that can turn them into closed fireplaces. The yield is significantly improved and can reach 85%. The same performance is displayed by the modern fireplace. Some of them even have an adaptation that allows them to connect to the central heating system, to supplement the main heating boiler or as in-season.

Another solution to better distribute the heat generated by the chimney is to install a heat recovery system that draws air into the hood for distribution in other parts of the house. Under these conditions, the fireplace is a great space heaters, including offseason, combined with the pleasure of fire.

Woodstove

Woodstove

The stove is easy to install and has a high yield. There are steel and cast iron or cast iron and refractory materials. The simplicity of installation is the number 1 advantage of the wood stove. You connect to a vent and it works. Whatever the chosen wood stove, it has a yield of 70 to 85%. However, wood stoves in steel and cast iron have a range somewhat lower than the others (5 to 10 hours cons 6-12 hours).

According to the model, a wood stove works with conventional logs , with pellets , the pellets of sawdust compressed, or mixed with both.The interest of the pellet is to enable automatic operation of the stove, its programming and its regulation depending on the room temperature.

In a well insulated house, according to current standards, a pellet stove or fireplace can be mass modes of heating main.

Wood boiler

The wood boiler combustion is rising, horizontal combustion, turbo-chip or pellet. The most efficient (yield> 75%) were the last three.


Note : The flue must be in perfect condition. It must respect the specific characteristics section, alignment, crossing the floor and led to the roof.

Always arrange an outdoor air intake in the very room where the stove, chimney or boiler. Special rules are to be taken into account in the case of a CMV.

To guide you through your purchase, you can rely on Green Flame label that distinguishes the best performing devices.

Tax benefits of wood chauffageau:

- Tax credit on equipment installed;
- 5.5% VAT if the installation is done by a professional; 
- Using the Anah (National Housing Agency).

You'll find information on aid and subsidies to heating with wood from ADEME and the website of the Ministry of Finance (Tax Section)