Heating with wood - cheap and environmentally friendly
Heating with wood - what are the advantages?
While the gas heating is still widespread today and still bollert an oil stove in many places, slowly but surely a raw material has begun the triumphal procession, which naturally grows back: wood.
Wood heaters have opposite "classic" heaters a lot of advantages, For us consumers very pleasant, of course, the cost: a wood heating is in the maintenance comparatively cheap, But the environmental aspect is also not neglected: as fuel, wood is CO2-neutral and thus much more environmentally friendly than gas or oil.
Heating with wood - what options are there?
Wood stove
Of course, if we think about how we can heat wood, we first think of a cozy fireplace in the living room. And indeed: a woodburning stove powered by fresh logs can certainly heat small rooms. But there are also ways to heat the whole house with wood.
pellet
An example is a pellet heating system that is filled once a year (with about 4.5 tonnes of pellets for a single family home). Pellets are small, pressed wooden cylinder, which consist of sawdust - so in the pellet boiler for the sake of the environment waste residues are burned.
chip heating
An alternative is a so-called woodchip heating. Here no pellets are burned, but wood chips, so chopped wood, This wood may be slightly wetter compared to pellets. That's why they are cheaper, but the heating power can be lower.
firewood boiler
The cheapest wood heating for entire buildings is the wood gasification boiler or log boiler. Be here complete logs burned in several steps. First, the firewood is dried and allowed to outgas before it is completely burned. The initial costs are very low here, but we have to do more for this: Log wood boilers are manually fitted with wood and also do more work in cleaning.
Heating with wood? Which wood can I use for heating?
If you want to heat wood, you can different types of wood use, depending on the oven:
- Natural wood including bark
- firewood
- wood chips
- pellets
- wood briquettes
You are allowed to use the following types of wood Not to burn or burn for heating:
- Treated wood
- Plywood / chipboard
- Old furniture
- Lacquered wood
- bark briquettes
The general rule: Wood stoves are not private waste incinerators! In case of improper use, damage to the environment and also to your own heating system is to be feared.
By the way: If you want to clean your fireplace, we give you valuable tips in this article!
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