https://airqualitynews.com/2022/02/01/half-of-pm2-5-from-domestic-burning-comes-from-outdoor-sources-says-stove-industry/

Where do you buy your wood from - that’s a decent price given the cost of wood.

This is our Jotul F373. It’s been fantastic, one of the best features of our house and we are glad we installed it while building the house in 2016. 

it’s controllable in terms of the temperature and it puts out 7.5 KW.

excellent piece of Norwegian craftsmanship. We use mostly Ash and Beech in it and normally around £100 a year mini pallet does the job. 

I would really like to put a small burner in the upstairs of the garage we are building just now but not sure if that is really feasible.

But we swear by our Chesneys wood burning stoves. We maintain them and only burn seasoned wood, and they have saved our bacon on numerous when the heating’s gone out. They create a cosy environment and spike room temperatures when temperatures outside drop. We are very rural, so we’re OK, but I understand the issues posed by wood burners in towns, cities or large villages.

In terms of carbon dioxide emissions, the CO2 emissions from oil and gas are generally higher than those from wood, especially if the wood is sustainably sourced and burned efficiently.

I can't say we bought it for aesthetic reasons although I like using it  - I just hated being totally dependent for heating on something that can break down and also relies on mains power being reliable.  In a village with overhead low voltage supplies, power cuts are not unusual although generally short-lived.

Sure enough, 7 months after we moved in our heat pump failed in late November and it took 10 days to get a fix (a new outside unit).  So the stove was brought into play.

Although it's only 5kW rated it gave us one very warm 45 sq. m. room and a warm enough house (lounge doors wide open).  So I feel justified in installing it. Other than buying seasoned wood, we used a couple of fan heaters to warm the bathrooms for an hour each morning.

The stove itself is a Charnwood Skye 5 which I have just about got the hang of.  I've used it a few times since we got the heating back, on cooler evenings, and the difficulty has been in not getting too hot.  I just about have the hang of it now.  I've ordered a moisture meter so I can ensure I am always user the drier wood - it's easier to keep the air closed up a bit when it's burning easily. 

What I will say for the benefit of others in well insulated houses, apart from "don't buy too big a stove", is to look at the minimum heat it can produce.  Ecodesign stoves, among other things, are so designed that the minimum air supply will give sufficiently complete combustion to keep pollution within limits.  Unlike the little Morso that we had on a boat about 20 years ago, it can't be made to 'tick over' such that it will stay in overnight.  Apparently, operating like that is massively polluting which I wasn't aware of at the time.  The Skye 5 according to spec will produce 2-7kW.  I initially intended to buy a Nordpies, a nice stove and cheaper, but the minimum output of that stove was 3kW.  3kW will heat a largish room in a house meeting current standards of insulation, and is probably too much to use as supplementary heating unless the main system isn't running.

E&OE - I'm not quite an expert.