Cinder & Smoke
Ecodesign
Wood Burners
Welcome to Cinder & Smoke in Brighton & Hove, Worthing and East and West Sussex. Our team of HETAS registered installers can solve any of your solid fuel needs from replacing your current open fire or gas fire to installing the latest ecodesign wood burner or multi fuel stove.
Whether we are removing an old appliance or restoring a sealed chimney to working order, we take the greatest care in making sure your installation meets all of the current building regulations whilst also providing an elegant finish.
All the wood burners and multi fuel stoves we install are DEFRA approved & ecodesign for use in smoke control zones. Stove efficiencies are between 80-90%. Many are also HETAS ‘Cleaner Choice’ and / or ClearSkies rated. We offer a free quotation and survey to give you all the advice you need to choose the right wood burning stove for your home.
We install throughout Brighton, Hove, Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham, Lewes, Burgess Hill, Crawley and the surrounding areas of East and West Sussex.
As well as stove installation we also offer slate hearths, chimney pots and cowls.
Eco design wood burners produce 90% fewer emissions than an open fire and 60-80% less than an old wood burner so you really will be making a difference to the environment by making the change. 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. Latest figures show ecodesign wood burners, when used correctly are responsible for less than 0.3% of the UK’s pm2.5 emissions. Official government figures and insight on the effect of domestic wood burning can be found HERE.
After installation we give you all the advice you need to maintain your wood burner, keeping its efficiency up and your heating costs down. With soaring gas prices and environmental concerns over air pollution from burning solid fuel, there has never been a better time to make the change to an ecodesign wood burner.
Wood Burning Stoves
Looking for something traditional or modern? Steel or cast iron? Wood only or multifuel?
We’ve got a broad range of stoves to cater to any need and all of them are ecodesign. We are also happy to install a stove you have bought elsewhere.
Our Prices
We like to be upfront about our prices. Click below to find simple cost breakdowns for all of our services.
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 new wood burning stove could reduce PM emissions by up to 90% when compared to an open fire.
Despite what you might have read on social media, total pm2.5 emissions from all sources have actually fallen by 47% between 2005 and 2024 . This is due to a number of factors including; the phasing out of coal fired power stations, and in recent years, the increasing number of people switching from petrol & diesel cars to electric cars and the replacement of open fires with ecodesign woodburners. According to official government data, the amount of PM2.5 emissions from domestic wood burning have showed signs of a steady decrease – despite the increasing popularity of wood-burning stoves with estimated PM2.5 emissions from domestic combustion decreasing by 15% since 2018. The National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) state that ecodesign woodburners when used correctly are responsible for less than 0.3% of the UK’s pm2.5 emissions. Yes, you read that correctly…0.3%! So why the hysteria you may ask.
You can see the official government figures HERE
A very useful HETAS Factsheet covering the arguments can be found HERE
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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.
