Category Archives: wood burning stoves

What size of stove do I need?

Here at alpine stove we will help you in choosing a wood burning stove, the task of buying one in itself is difficult, to know what size stove to buy for your home. An important thing to note is that people buy stoves that is often really too big for the room they are placing it in, whilst it may seem simpler to just buy the biggest stove possible, this however isn’t the best option. One of the first thing anyone should know is any stove over 5kw needs an air brick or ventilation kit for the room that the wood burning stove is installed in to ensure good air flow, but it is recommended altogether for any burning appliance.

An important factor to consider and one that Alpine stove recommend researching is when buying what is the physical size of the wood burning stove?, you need to have enough room for the stove as well as allowing 6 inches of clearance to the sides and rear as well as 9 inches to the front of the hearth to comply with the necessary building regulations. Your wood burning stove should also be 40 inches away from any combustible materials.

All alpine stove wood burning stoves have optimal performance efficiency, they achieve this by running at their nominal heat output. If they run at less or more than the output they of course become less efficient, meaning the cost of fuel goes up as well as the exhaust is more damaging to the environment. Getting a wood burning stove with a nominal heat output that matches the room it is installed in is what you should be aiming for, to get a better idea of what heat output you will need from a wood burning stove you can use our heat output calculator. You should remember that this is only a guide as factors such as how well insulated your room is.

Savings and Costs of Using a Wood Burning Stove

Stove prices

According to the National Energy Foundation of the United Kingdom. The price varies according to which size stove you require for your room. Growing sales and popularity are helping to drive down prices, with smaller wood and multi fuel stoves starting at around £500. Installing a full wood-heated system can be costly, with prices running into several thousand pounds.

You’ll also need to factor in installation costs, as well as the on-going cost of using wood as fuel. The cost of a pellet stove, including installation, would be around £4,300 and a log stove should be cheaper, at about £2,000.

Costs and savings

Installation can be the main source of the cost; using wood for multifuel stoves could save you hundreds of pounds over electricity or gas however. Wood burners and multifuel stoves are usually standalone features used as a centrepiece in a living room to keep that or more rooms warms, certain models can be attached to a back boiler to heat the water for the home. Also you can buy wood boilers as part of a wood central heating system.

Wood fuel traditionally comes in the form of logs or, for multi-fuel stoves a special type of fuel is needed, wood pellets. Before you buy, check with the manufacturer of the multi fuel which fuels are usable to burn on your chosen stove. If you live in a city area, Wood prices can be higher for these areas, so some people choose multifuel stoves, which burn wood and fossil fuels. Supplementing wood with smokeless fuel while not as environmentally friendly it can keep costs down. In addition, find out if you live in a smoke control area as your stove will need to be approved for use by DEFRA.

The Olympus Range

The Olympus wood burners and boilers from Alpine stoves are a stylish, sleek, contemporary cast iron stoves and boilers. They boast a great list of features from their designer styling; to the chrome finishing to the large loading door with crystal clear glass viewing panels and the large heat output for their size make them a greatly popular stove range. An amazing design and finished to a high standard.

The physical size of these stoves will make them an impressive addition to any living space and the heat output it produces makes it very usable in large rooms, a great all round stove collection and great prices to go with it.

The Olympus from Alpine stoves is a multi-fuel stove from Alpine, it has an air control below the multi fuel grate which is great for the use of coal and smokeless fuels, this however can be closed as well and the air wash system can be used as the primary air source when you want to traditional logs or other wood.

The Olympus Boiler Stove from Alpine offers the same features and same design as the Olympus Wood Burning Stove. Coming with back boiler so that this stove can also run your hot water system or your central heating, the boiler option gives you the ability to make more use of your Olympus stove from Alpine as a heating device for your house and maximize its heat output. You can use this either as a replacement appliance, or for your existing boiler use alongside it, ask your plumber for further installation details if you can’t find the required information here at Alpine. The Olympus boiler stove from Alpine is a small to medium sized boiler, the offering of heat output to the room its in and to your hot water or heating system.

Who are Alpine?

Alpine Stoves are a UK brand, the result of years of hard work and extensive research in the wood burning stoves and multi fuel burners industry. We are passionate about wood burning stoves and multi fuel burners and are also extremely proud of our unique range of multi fuel burners and wood burning stoves. The design of Alpine stoves lend themselves to a variety of eye-catching designs, in a time when the internet is becoming overcrowded with cheap looking poor quality cheap wood burning stoves, we took it upon ourselves to create the Alpine collection, a range of economical great quality wood burning stoves and multi fuel burners, so that our stove customers could have a brand of stoves that they could trust, the Alpine stove collection.

The Alpine wood burning stoves and multi fuel burners are handpicked from the best stove manufacturers around the world and are offered to you the customer exclusively as part of the Alpine stoves collection.

Every one of the stoves we provide go through a 100 point quality check to ensure our customers only receive the highest quality stove, the stove also comes with a full warranty backed by Alpine Stoves in the UK. Parts are also available from dealers and we can also provide technical assistance and troubleshooting from our trained experts here in the UK to help with any install or maintenance issues you may have.

The Alpine Stoves brand is a reassurance of quality and value, when you see the Alpine stove mark you know that the stoves adhere with the latest UK safety regulations, they are fully CE certified and they are also backed by UK based stove enthusiasts. The Alpine stoves are available from 5 kilowatt multi fuel burners to 16 kilowatt wood burning stoves. With that there is no longer the need to buy unbranded poor quality and possibly dangerous stoves, buy from a brand you can trust, buy Alpine Stoves and multi fuel burners.

Welcome to Alpinestoves.co.uk!

Hello and welcome to the home of Alpine stoves here at Alpinestoves.co.uk! We are the official retailer of the Alpine stove collection in the UK.

Here at Alpinestoves.co.uk we will provide you with up to date information about the products and the business of Alpine stoves, we will also provide you with a list of trusted and expert retailers for Alpine stoves that we ourselves personally recommend to you the buyer by our experts here.

We hope to give you all the information and more you could possibly need to help you purchase your perfect Alpine stove and get it to you, help install it and enjoy the natural warmth of a wood burning in your home as soon as possible.