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Published on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 09:49 | | 
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Happiness is life with a wood burning stove, says Julia Stephenson
Recent hikes in fuel costs plus the controversial news that the
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I’ve just installed (well I didn’t personally - I got my boyfriend to do it), a wood burning stove (www.stovesareus.co.uk have a good selection) and have thus joined the growing band of 'woodies' who power their homes with pellets that are a waste product from the forestry industry. I don’t even need to buy pellets as the mania for home renovation means there is loads of waste wood lying around in skips for the taking - if not liberated this will end up in landfill taking years to rot and creating methane, contributing to global warming. As for the emissions, many stoves are now clean enough to be legally used in urban smoke-free zones.
Best of all, if the man in your life is feeling crumpled and you need to rekindle his affections, a wood-burning stove will rejuvenate him. Collecting wood will reawaken his Neanderthal hunter gatherer impulses, sadly deactivated by modern living, and make him feel useful again. Instead of staggering in from the pub empty-handed he will arrive wreathed in smiles and bearing fuel.
My heating bill is now practically zero as I’ve been able to turn off all my radiators thus within a year my £500 stove will have paid for itself.
The only drawback to it was that the company just delivered and did not actually install. As I live on the top floor (no lift!) this meant my super handy inamorato had to lug the thing up the stairs and install it – something that made me faint with gratitude as it saved a considerable fee. The fact that he now has to see an osteopath every few weeks is an added hidden expense I must confess. But a warm fire is just the thing for a bad back.
How Wood Heat works
