Wood fired Central heating system?

[katymac]

Is there a down side?

I have a wood burner and run a radiator and our hot water system from it.

I am considering buying a bigger one and running my whole central heating system off it.

Currently I have night Storage heaters and I hate them

Does this system have a down side?

Do you have a plentyful supply of wood?
Can you stand the stove on in summer for hot water or do you have an emmersion?

I have an emersion for hot water in the summer (however I am hoping in the future I will be able to replace that with solar panels) and also for days when we get in too late

I order wood (£200) lasts the winter- we have a fire everynight from Oct to end of March/in to April - so I'm hoping that will be maybe half as much again

cant see a problem

Sounds like you are being very eco-friendly, I am trying harder after watching about the ice caps melting I am planning to move to all low watt bulbs, have turned my heating down and my hot water temp.

Actually it's not really to do with "eco"ness

I'm just worried how much electricity is costing and oil fired boilers are not relly economical atm