When choosing your stove you need to look beyond design and features as several factors come into play. For you to have the best possible experience, the stove’s heating capacity must match the actual heating requirement. If you select a stove which is too big for your heating needs, you will need to reduce the air supply which will result in poor combustion so that soot accumulates within the stove and chimney. In other words, the fuel and the stove are poorly utilised. You need to consider the following aspects:

How many sq. m do you need to heat?
Calculate how many sq. m the stove needs to heat and select the appropriate stove from the list shown here.

How many sq. m does 1 kW correspond to?
1 kW corresponds to 10-20 sq. m, depending on how well the house is insulated. In most houses/apartments, you can base your calculations on 15 sq. m per kW. It is important that the stove is neither too small, nor too big. The combustion is cleaner and more efficient if you fire more in a smaller stove than less in a large stove.

Holiday home or primary residence?
In most cases, holiday homes require less heating than houses for primary residence. Morsø’s smaller stoves are thus often the most suitable for holiday homes. However, it is more the individual need which determines the size of stove for your primary residence.

Primary or secondary heating?
If the stove is to be used as the primary heating source, i.e. as the most important heating source in the house, you should select a stove which matches the size of your home – preferably a convection stove which distributes the heat well. However, if the stove is to be used as a secondary heating source, e.g. only for heating the living room, a smaller Morsø stove will be more appropriate.

House insulation?
There are considerable differences in how well houses are insulated, and in general you should select a larger stove for a house which is poorly insulated.

Fuel
Morsø stoves with ashpans and grates can, in addition to wood, be fired with coal, energy coke and briquettes in most of the DS-approved stoves.

Morsø’s range of stoves covers almost all needs, whether it be stove type, capacity, form of heating or design.