This book developed from a weekend course entitled (not surprisingly) heating with wood. It covers everything you need to know, from planning your system, choosing, sizing, installing and even making a stove, obtaining and storing firewood, plus cooking with wood, and heating your water with a back boiler. It includes chainsaw use, basic forestry, health & safety, chimneys, pellet and woodchip stoves, and even how to light a fire and keep it going. This second edition has been expanded to reflect improvements in wood-fuelled appliances, developments in the type and availablility of wood-based fuels and the author's own recent experience of installing and using an automated biomass system.