Is it cheaper to heat a house with wood or propane?

That’s because propane is a remarkably versatile fuel that can be used to heat a home and power everything from water heaters, generators and stoves/cooktops to fireplaces, clothes dryers, outdoor grills, space heaters and more.

Natural gas is a fairly inexpensive form of energy, so a gas fireplace is inexpensive to run. Gas fireplaces cost 17-19 cents an hour to run, or about $60 annually, Electric Fireplaces Direct says. Wood-burning fireplaces cost about $190 annually to produce a number of BTUs similar to a gas fireplace.

This process is called catalytic combustion. A wood stove catalytic combustor is comparable to a catalytic converter in a car. Inside the stove, the smoky exhaust passes through a coated honeycomb (the catalyst). The device is chemically coated with a metal that reacts with smoke and other combustion byproducts.

The Differences in Fuel Type. The three common fuel types for home fire systems are gas, wood, and pellets. Each has its benefits and drawbacks, but all work well as long as the appliance is designed for their use. For instance, if you have a gas fire, you cannot and should not burn other things in the fireplace.

Wood stoves aren’t typically designed to heat an entire house but sized to warm a particular room in a home. However, installing a wood stove in the right location in a home, along with helping to circulate air between rooms, or using a stove boiler, can help to raise temperatures across a whole house.

For all practical purposes the two fuels cost the same. Also keep in mind that wood burning pollutes much more than natural gas and requires far more work, namely hauling and stacking the wood, stoking and tending the fire, periodically cleaning the chimney to avoid creosote buildup, and cleaning out the ashes.

Freestanding stoves by Quadra-Fire offer heating efficiency by burning a variety of different fuel types such as gas, wood or pellet fuel. Our products add a rustic look and natural ambiance to any room in the home.

In fact, it means that a wood burning stove costs about a third of the price of electric heating and approximately 13% less than gas central heating for the average household.

You can get more heat from wood because it burns hotter than both propane and natural gas. This also means that outdoor cooking is easier to accomplish with wood burning applications than gas ones.

‘A modern Ecodesign compliant wood burning stove produces up to 90 per cent less emissions than an open fire and up to 80 per cent less that a stove that is over 10 years old. ‘ Help: Those who have an Ecodesign stove will have much lower emissions than an open fire.

What is a hybrid stove? A hybrid stove combines 2 distinct burn systems into the firebox each with their own unique advantages. The first is the thermal combustion system (burn tubes). Burn tubes work great at temperatures above 1000 delivering secondary combustion air to incinerate most of the smoke.

The answer is no, as long as the stove being purchased is an Ecodesign model or was manufactured before the 1st January 2022. All stoves on sale will have to meet one of these criteria. So you will be able to purchase and use a wood burning or multi-fuel stove in 2022 and beyond.

In fact, it means that a wood burning stove costs about a third of the price of electric heating and approximately 13% less than gas central heating for the average household.

Multi-fuel stoves are appliances that are capable of burning a variety of materials other than wood. Apart from logs, a multi-fuel stove can burn smokeless fuels (look for authorised fuels that are approved for use in Smoke Control Areas), anthracite and peat/turf briquettes.

Although in some cases propane can be a more costly fuel than wood, it burns hotter, more efficiently and more evenly, so the space you’re supplementing your heat in won’t fluctuate the same way it might with a wood burning fireplace.