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| ## What can I do? | ## What can I do? |
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| First, learn as much as you can. Here’s a free pdf of our book, _[Heating with Wood: Wood Fuel, Stoves and Home Heating](https://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/wp-content/uploads/heating-with-wood-text-1.pdf)_, by Andy Reynolds of [theInfoWorks](https://www.youtube.com/@TheInfoworks). | |
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| Basic wood stoves start at around £400, (c. £1000 for clean burn) new, or cheaper [second-hand](http://www.salvo.co.uk/directory.html). Your supplier should be able to recommend an installer, or you can install yourself. Make a register plate for the chimney (can be a thin sheet of stainless) with a hole for the flue pipe, seal flue and plate with fire cement, put fire string round door (both from plumbers’ merchants or online). | Basic wood stoves start at around £400, (c. £1000 for clean burn) new, or cheaper [second-hand](http://www.salvo.co.uk/directory.html). Your supplier should be able to recommend an installer, or you can install yourself. Make a register plate for the chimney (can be a thin sheet of stainless) with a hole for the flue pipe, seal flue and plate with fire cement, put fire string round door (both from plumbers’ merchants or online). |
| ## Further resources | ## Further resources |
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| | - [Heating with Wood: Wood Fuel, Stoves and Home Heating](https://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/wp-content/uploads/heating-with-wood-text-1.pdf) - free book |
| | - [HETAS](https://www.hetas.co.uk/) - trade body for solid fuel domestic heating appliances, fuels and services |
| | - [Stove Industry Association](https://stoveindustryassociation.org/) |
| | - [Alliance for Green Heat](https://www.forgreenheat.org/) - promoting low-carbon, renewable, local heat |
| | - [GR8Fires](https://www.gr8fires.co.uk/pages/blog) - lots of useful articles for wood stove owners |
| | - [National Association of Chimney Sweeps](https://nacs.org.uk/) |
| | - [Salvo](https://www.salvoweb.com/) - place to find second-hand stoves |
| | - [Stoves Online](https://www.stovesonline.co.uk/stove_help_and_advice.html) - guides: how to heat your home with wood |
| | - [WhatStove](https://www.whatstove.co.uk/) - personal reviews of stoves by stove users |
| | - [WoodHeat](https://www.woodheat.org/) - US nonprofit dedicated to the responsible use of wood as a home heating fuel |
| | - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood-burning_stove) - wood-burning stove |
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| | ## Related topics |
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| | - [[fire:firecraft|Firecraft]] |
| | - [[wodl:woodland_management|Tree / woodland management]] |
| | - [[lico:cooking|Low-impact cooking]] |
| | - [[sohw:solar_hot_water|Solar hot water]] |
| | - [[fell:felling|Felling axes & crosscut saws]] |
| | - [[msry:masonry_stoves|Masonry stoves / kachelofens]] |
| | - [[rock:rocket_stoves|Rocket stoves & mass heaters]] |
| | - [[biom:biomass_boilers|Biomass boilers]] |
| | - [[chsw:chainsaws|Chainsaws]] |
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