That’s hardly in the green nature of wood heating, though, and fans can be noisy. So something like this heat-powered stove-top fan can come in handy. Such fans, which use Peltier devices to ...

But as much as I appreciated its design, I sometimes wished the radiant heat reached a bit further. That’s when I started looking into Bonfire accessories and found the Solo Stove Heat Deflector.

It’s particularly difficult for those who rely on a wood stove to escape the feeling that perhaps most of that hard-won heat may be whistling up the chimney rather than keeping them warm.