Are woodburners going to be banned?
Ecodesign regulations & what it all means.
“It is worth remembering that wood is a renewable resource and much better for our planet than gas or oil (or electricity when it is created by a coal-fuelled power station).”
Eco Design is a new standard of stove design that substantially reduces the particulates added to our atmosphere by the burning of wood. New regulations have brought down the amount of smoke you are allowed to emit from 5g per hour to 3g per hour. Ecodesign stoves emit (on average) 0.7g per hour so fall well below the new regulations requirements. Open fires and vehicles are the biggest polluters in cities and NOT modern wood stoves. Installing a wood burning stove could reduce PM emissions by up to 90% when compared to an open fire. Despite what you might have read in The Guardian, pm2.5 emissions between 2017 and 2020 have actually fallen by 18%. This is due to the large number of people replacing open fires with ecodesign woodburners.
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Where do you begin?
With the relatively recent updates to building regulations regarding solid fuel appliances, finding out information about the installation and running of a wood burner can be confusing.
We’ve broken down the most important information so you don’t have to scour the internet. Click the links below to find out more.