Wood heating has always been one of the best ways to heat your home. In addition to the ambience and sense of wellbeing, it is likely more cost effective than electricity or gas. However, these benefits should not come at the expense of the environment, which is why Euro Fireplaces is committed to providing a solution that optimises clean burning and efficiency, without compromising the things we love about burning wood.

Unlike fan forced wood heaters, our fireplaces are designed to maximise heat output while using the smallest amount of wood possible. This is achieved using natural convection to heat your home, which will travel through your house and replace cold air with warm. This is complemented by radiant heat, which will keep the area around the heater warm. This cosy atmosphere, sometimes referred to as healthy heat, cannot be achieved with gas or electricity and is the reason many people gravitate towards wood fires.

From the Heart of Europe To the Victorian High Country Euro Fireplaces is the sole importer of a curated range of European fireplaces from leading manufacturers including Thorma, Haas + Sohn and Brunner. 4 Traditionally in Australia the most common form of wood heaters burn large loads of firewood quickly. Due to such an aggressive burn rate, new logs need to be regularly added and much of the heat produced will be lost through the flue. To combat this loss of heat an electric fan is used to artificially distribute warm air throughout the room, which is often loud and inefficient.

 A practice has also developed of overloading and shutting down heaters overnight, which will lead to a high emissions output and creosote build up inside the firebox and flue. About A Euro Fireplaces wood heater is designed to avoid inefficient and ‘dirty’ wood burning, prioritising burning practices which use less wood and produce less emissions.

Our wood heaters will draw cold air from open spaces throughout your home, warm it up through a double skin on the heater and recirculates it. This creates a continuous cycle that will naturally warm your home without the need for electricity or fans. The firebox itself is smaller than that of a traditional Australian heater and only requires one or two logs at a time to achieve a bright, clean and continuous burn. Achieving these benefits can require a slight adjustment to how we approach the operation of a fireplace. Roaring fires should be avoided, as this will lead to a large amount of heat loss through the flue. Shutting down the heater overnight will produce a large amount of emissions, and is generally unnecessary when the quick start up time of our heaters is combined with heat bank technology.

Lastly, the amount of wood required to effectively heat your home should be reconsidered.

 At Euro Fireplaces they are committed to transparency and proudly publish not only the average hourly burn rate of each of our models, but also the emissions per hour. This will help to fully understand how much wood you will burn. Euro fireplaces strongly believe in the future of sustainable wood heating. We are committed to innovation in wood heating and promoting sustainable and efficient techniques for wood burning