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Biomass boilers are an eco-responsible option for heating your home, using biomass boilers is becoming increasingly popular choice for home owners. Approved Trader is here to help you participate in using sustainable energy and encouraging uk home owners to reduce the environmental impact and responsible behaviour.

If you are looking at fitting a biomass boiler for your homes heating system then Approved Trader can help you find an engineer who will be able to fit and install your biomass boiler into your central heating system. With heating engineers all over the UK, simply complete our simple online enquiry form of your requirements and receive a low cost quote, we are also happy to discuss your requirements and answer any questions you may have on biomass boilers.

Biomass boilers work by burning renewable materials such as logs, wood pellets and wood chips. Most biomass fuel is made from fast growing trees for example willow as well as recycled wood from things such as wood pallets and other used timber.

A common biomass fuel is using wood pellets made from scraps of dry natural wood by 4-10 mm in diameter and 10-50 mm long, using natural timber usually not containing any synthetic additives, modern wood pellets are easy to store and give you a consistent quality giving you a natural burn rate.

Potential energy: 1 kg of pellets = 4.8 kWh = 0.48 litres of heating oil.

Wood chips

A wood waste product, fine wood chips are an ideal choice for using for your biomass boiler. Wood chips is one of the most ecological options as you are using a waste product and does not need trees cutting down.

Energy power (wood chips, water content 25%):

1 map spruce = 766 kWh = 76.6 l oil
1 map beech = 1.058 kWh = 105.8 liters of heating oil

Wood Logs

Logs that is available to be burned, using raw wood logs as a material logs are a great choice for your biofuel

Energy Power:

1 st spruce kWh = 1.350 = 135 l of fuel
1 st beech = 1,930 kWh = 193 l of fuel

What is a biomass boiler

A biomass boiler is used to burn natural fuel to produce energy to heat your central heating system, biomass boilers are a popular environmentally friendly alternative to gas, oil or electric boilers.

Biomass Boiler Cost

The price of fitting a biomass boiler for your home varies on the size and model you choice, the average cost is around £2,000 for a no obligation free quote please complete our simple enquiry form and receive quotes from multiple heating engineers local to you. Because of the environmental friendly aspect of a biomass boiler, grants may be available if you are looking at replacing your boiler with a biomass boiler, speak to our heating engineer for more information on the options available.