When you want Napoleon stoves for your home, you will be able to choose from both wood burning and gas models. Napoleon also manufacturers accessories to go with both types of stoves and help make your installation simply and easy. You will want to use accessories approved for use with your model of Napoleon stove to ensure that it will operate correctly. You will find other types of accessories which can be used to add finishing touches to your installation, like brick panels.

Napoleon Stoves Offer Modern, Energy Efficient Designs and Models

When you are looking for modern, energy efficient wood burning or gas stoves, you should consider looking at Napoleon stoves. This brand of stoves provides energy efficient models and designs which work to keep more heat in your home, rather than letting it escape out of the chimney or through the direct vent. You will find Napoleon brand products available on our website, here at Copperfield Chimney Supply.

Many people enjoy having a fireplace in their home to use on cold winter nights. The only problem people face is when their home is older and the existing fireplace is not energy efficient. Instead of heating the home effectively, the warm air goes right up the chimney. Depending upon the condition of the chimney, you may discover cold air is being drawn into the room, making it colder as well as smoky from the draft. You can replace your old fireplace with Napoleon wood stoves , which offer efficient and clean wood burning.

Variety of Different Styles of Napoleon Wood Stoves for Your Home

You will find Napoleon wood stoves available from us here at Copperfield Chimney Supply. We offer a variety of different Napoleon brand models, so you can choose the one which best fits the needs of your home. You can look at pedestal models, leg models, and cast iron models, all in different sizes. We provide free delivery on all orders over $500, so your stove is delivered right to your home.

As winter’s chill advanced on the Pikes Peak region Tuesday, David Parker of Colorado Timber Products delivered a cord of wood at 720 Bonfoy St.

The load, a mixture of soft pine and hardwood, cost $209, dumped next to Nick Fransioli’s home. For about 25 years, a wood stove in has been the primary heat source in winter.

Is it cheaper?

“I think so. I don’t know exactly how much,” Fransioli said, “but we usually just go out and cut our own.”

There is room for debate about whether it is cheaper to burn wood instead of using natural gas, but there are variables to consider. It depends on whether you own a chain saw and cut your own wood, or how high you set your thermostat, and so on.

There are qualitative factors, some favoring natural gas, some favoring wood. Included is the fact that a wood stove’s heat doesn’t diminish quickly, the way heat leaves a room when the gas furnace shuts off. Or the fact that you don’t have to clean a stovepipe when you simply use natural gas.

“I like the atmosphere of it,” Fransioli said. “I like the smell of it.”

According to Colorado Springs Utilities, any residential customer hooked up to the city’s gas infrastructure must pay about $9.30 in gas connection charges even if the gas is never used. So that’s a part of the cost of doing business with the utility, whether you burn wood or not. Utility spokeswoman Patrice Lehermeier said when gas usage and connections fees are factored together, the average residential customer’s gas bill is about $228 a month during winter.

If Fransioli burns a cord a month and pays the gas connection fees using no other gas for heating, his total bill would be right in that $228 ballpark ($209 for a cord of delivered wood plus the $9.30 in connection charges).

Based on wood stove installation statistics, the demand for wood isn’t growing much.

The Regional Building Department has issued 19 permits for wood stove installations in El Paso county so far his year; the number was 41 in 2008, 15 in 2009 and 26 in 2010. Traditional open fireplaces are becoming rare: Since Jan. 1, 2007, only 29 such fireplaces have been built in El Paso County.

Parker says the recession has increased competition in the firewood business, so his sales are down 20-30 percent. He’s been cutting pine in the Black Forest area and makes two or three deliveries a day.

“The economy gets down, guys pick up a chain saw,” he said with a shrug.

By late in the day Tuesday light snow fell in some portions of the region and a thick steam plume rose from the Martin Drake power plant downtown.

The idea of a wood fire was appealing, but so was the feel of warm air coming up from a vent in the floor.

When you want an alternative heating method for your home, you can look at gas and wood burning stove units. Both types have their own advantages, like being able to heat water for humidification or cook meals on the flat surface. The primary difference between the two types of stoves is how they need to be vented. Wood burning stoves require a chimney, whereas gas stoves can be directly vented.

Always Make Sure Your Wood Burning Stove is Properly Vented

When installing a wood burning stove to replace a fireplace, you can use the existing chimney. However, you may need to modify the existing chimney to accommodate your new stove. This may entail running a brand new chimney inside the existing structure. You should always make sure your stove is properly vented prior to using it. Here at Copperfield Chimney Supply you will find wood stoves and chimneys as well as accessories needed for your installation.

When you want a fireplace in your home, but do not have a brick chimney installed you can run metal chimney pipe as a venting source for your fireplace. This pipe is not complicated to install and easily connects to the top of the fireplace to allow gases and other harmful by-products of the fire to escape from the home while retaining the warmth from the fire. You will also need this type of pipe when installing wood burning stoves.

Recently released U.S. Census figures show the number of households heating with wood grew 34 percent between 2000 and 2010, faster than any other heating fuel. Electricity showed the second fastest growth, with a 24 percent increase over the past decade.

In two states, households using wood as a primary heat source more than doubled—Michigan (135 percent) and Connecticut (122 percent). And in six other states, wood heating grew by more than 90 percent—New Hampshire (99 percent), Massachusetts (99 percent), Maine (96 percent), Rhode Island (96 percent), Ohio (95 percent) and Nevada (91 percent).

Census data also shows that low- and middle-income households are much more likely to use wood as a primary heating fuel, making low- and middle-income families growth leaders of the residential renewable energy movement. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, residential wood heat accounts for 80 percent of residential renewable energy, solar 15 percent and geothermal 5 percent.

“Heating with wood may not be hip like solar, but it’s proving to be the workhorse of residential renewable energy production,” said John Ackerly, president of the Alliance for Green Heat, a nonprofit organization based in Maryland.

The rise of wood and wood pellets in home heating is driven by the climbing cost of oil, the economic downturn and the movement to use renewable energy. The Census Bureau does not track the reason people switch fuels but in states like Maine and New Hampshire where rising oil prices are squeezing household budgets, it is clear that many families simply feel the need to cut heating costs.

“The rise of wood heat is good news for offsetting fossil fuels, achieving energy independence, creating jobs and helping families affordably heat their homes,” Ackerly said. “However, wood heat’s rapid rise is not just from people using clean pellet and EPA certified wood stoves. Many people are also dusting off old and inefficient stoves and in some states installing outdoor boilers that create too much smoke.”

Over the past decade, the number of households using two of the most expensive heating fuels significantly declined: propane dropped 16 percent and oil heat dropped 21 percent. Some of those homes undoubtedly switched to wood. Switching from fossil fuels to commercially purchased wood heat can reduce a home’s heating bills by half or more. Those who cut or collect their own wood save much more, using their labor to zero out heating bills.

Currently about 25 percent to 30 percent of the 12 million stoves in the U.S. are clean burning pellet stoves or EPA certified wood stoves, according to the EPA and other sources. Americans have installed about 1 million pellet stoves since the 1980s when they were invented.

Wood now ranks third in the most common heating fuels after gas and electricity for both primary and secondary heating fuel use, but ranks fifth, after oil and propane as well, when only primary heat fuel is considered. As of 2010, 2.1 percent of American homes, or about 2.40 million households, use wood as a primary heat source, up from 1.6 percent in 2000. About 10 percent to 12 percent of American households use wood when secondary heating is counted, according to the Census Bureau and the EIA.

The rapid rise in wood heat as a primary heating fuel is mainly a rural phenomenon, and to a lesser extent a suburban trend. According to the U.S. census, 57 percent of households who primarily heat with wood live in rural areas, 40 percent in suburban areas and only 3 percent in urban areas.