Thousands of people with log burners given free £2,000 - find out how

Bryony Lewis got a log burner fitted successful autumn 2022 and reckons she's already saved £2,000 connected her state bill. Here the mum-of-two shares her apical tips for keeping costs down

UK households with a log burner successful their surviving country are being talented a escaped £2,000 each. Bryony Lewis, a mum-of-two, had a log burner installed successful autumn 2022 and believes she's already saved £2,000 connected her bills since making the switch.

The 40-year-old, who resides successful a five-bedroom location successful Fareham, Hampshire, with her hubby Dan, lad Theo, eight, and girl Izzy, six, runs her ain e-commerce business, T and Belle.

"The cost-of-living continues to spell up and state and energy bills are making an progressively large dent successful our finances," explains Bryony. "We are precise blessed we made the determination to find a cheaper alternate to cardinal heating."

Bryony shelled retired £800 for her log burner, positive astir £1,000 for its installation. "We paid astir £800 for our ACR Woodpecker WP5 Plus - but arsenic we've discovered, it doesn't instrumentality excessively agelong to recoup the cost."

Bryony revealed: "Even connected the coldest days, we lone enactment the heating connected for a maximum of 1 hr successful the greeting and the aforesaid earlier bedtime, contempt the information I enactment from home. For the full of the wintertime play past twelvemonth – from October to March – we spent a full of £100."

Bryony recommends purchasing good-quality kiln-dried logs, explaining however "doing this means the portion gives retired a batch of heat." She besides advised that regular chimney sweeping is indispensable too: "We past did this past successful September and it outgo america astir £60."

"Our astute metre showed maine that the oven was different energy-guzzling appliance," she revealed. "So, aft researching the alternatives, I invested successful an aerial fryer. This was backmost successful 2022, and we person made truly bully usage of it since then."

Bryony added: "As a family, we bash a batch of things to effort to beryllium much efficient. We instrumentality attraction to ever power appliances disconnected astatine the plug, arsenic leaving devices connected standby tin outgo a tiny fortune."