The current global economy has hit a lot of homeowners really hard and they are needing to cut back on every day expenditure including socialising and trips out and of course every day neccessities, but what about the very staples of life for example lighting and heat.

Aside from the gloom merchants out there, there is also a constant buzz about global warming and saving the environment so how do you put the two together.

Lighting is for the most part quite easy with a little discipline. Simply make sure you turn off all unused appliances and lighting if nobody is in the room and don’t leave your electrical appliances on standby as you will be astounded at the cumulative cost of all that wasted electricity.

by turning them all off you will guarantee your self a massive reduction in your electricity bill as well as helping the climate too.

That only leaves the domesticheating bills which can soon add up depending what part of the country you live in. We recently were introduced to cast iron wood stoves as a viable alternative source of not only heating the house but also for cooking too.

These woodburners as they are also known have been in use for years and I’m sure that we have all seen the odd cowboy film or two where a family is all huddled around the family stove, but seriously though they really do work.

The beauty of woodburners is the fact that on the one hand you can save yourself a serious amount of money on your domestic heating bills, but you will also be doing your bit for the environment by using recycled fuel and living neutral carbon footprint.

Once you start investigating them you will quickly find that a cast iron woodburning stove can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and are useful for a whole range of options for example:

You could choose a stove with a back boiler to heat the radiator or supply hot water or you could get a stove that you could use for cooking. Equally if you are happy with you cooking arrangements you could just get a nice cosy log burner to supplement and reduce the cost of your existing heating.

In the past some people have been put off these very cost effective and environmentally friendly stoves as they only ran on wood but manufactures (bless their cotton socks) have introduced cast iron multifuel stoves as well.

If you don’t want to be restricted to the use of only wood or recycled fuel then multi fuel stoves are the way to go as the give you a far greater flexibility of which fuel to use on a daily basis, so you can have the best of both worlds.

Save your self money and do your bit for the environment and check out the latest range of cast iron stoves at your local supplier as soon as possible.