Running costs

Guides

• Cost of running a wood burner: per evening and winter

  Work out what your wood burner costs per evening and per winter from your log prices, with every step of the sum shown.

• Is a wood burner cheaper than gas? The sums

  Logs vs gas per useful kWh, worked out from your own prices and your stove's efficiency. The honest comparison, with the working.

• Wood burner vs heat pump: running costs compared

  How a wood burner compares with a heat pump per useful kWh, and how the two can work together in one home.

• Annual wood burner costs: logs, sweeping, servicing

  Everything a stove costs in a year: logs, kindling, sweeping and servicing, added up from your own prices.

• Heating off the gas grid with a stove

  Using a wood burner off the gas grid: how it compares with oil, LPG and electric heating, and planning a winter's fuel.

• Is a log burner worth it? Costs and comfort

  Is a wood burner worth it for you? Installation cost, running cost, payback and the comfort that doesn't show in the sums.