Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Yes, well, it is just hotter than other types of heating, but otherwise there is no difference, how else, purely physically?

And yes, it is cheap, but we all pay the price for the environmental and climate damage, especially the neighborhood pays the health price.

The big difference or advantage is that I can turn off our heating because of it (only active for hot water). And that leaves more money for other things. Very valuable in today’s times!!!!
And to snuggle up super comfortably IN FRONT OF the fireplace. (or can you do that in front of radiators / underfloor heating?? ;)

Cozy in front of the fireplace?
Not everyone likes it that warm and finds it cozy

Cozy in front of the fireplace?
Not everyone likes it so warm and finds it cozy

Well, freezing (or heating less) is totally trendy now ;). :D
I would prefer 22-23 degrees to 18 degrees... (every fireplace user would agree with me!!)
You can determine the warmth in front of the fireplace yourself (amount/type of wood, distance from the fireplace,...)

A fireplace in itself is already cozy. Heating with firewood is not. At first, you only warm the rooms where the fireplace is located. It takes a while for the heat to move from the living room to the office or children's room. Especially if it's not directly adjacent but upstairs. Every good hour you have to add more wood, open the draft, check after 5-10 minutes that it’s burning properly, and close it again. And then there’s the question of the wood. Wood releases heat three times if you’re not burning old pallets or expensive pre-cut firewood. And your own health is also at risk; there are plenty of people with sawed-off or chopped-off fingers.

The heat from the wood stove is somehow more pleasant than from the heater. One of us usually sits more directly in front of the stove in the evening. Our living room is 36 square meters. The stove manages that well and most of the time we keep the door to the upper floor closed because otherwise it gets too warm in the bedroom. The heat reaches the adjoining room (kitchen) less well, so we are considering whether we should buy a stove fan. I see that as a disadvantage of the stove, that the heat really tends to rise upwards.

We are having a tiled stove installed. Heat pump with photovoltaics is completely unaffordable (and doesn’t work during power outages) and not available, all other heating methods are lousy. Oil, gas, coal. Gas will cost us three times as much starting in January. Even pellets increasingly come from abroad. And no one can turn off our stove, we can buy the wood locally from the regional forests and store it safely on the property. With a tiled stove, you heat once every 12-24 hours and in our case the ground floor and the upper floor (we don’t heat the attic anyway). We haven’t found the ideal heating method so far. For everything, something has to be burned or electricity generated. Therefore now tiled stove plus solar thermal, with the gas heating as backup and if that breaks down, we’ll see what is available on the market then. I don’t find any of the options satisfactory. But I know that I need heating. We currently heat to 18 degrees, with sun it’s 19-20. Only gas is no longer an option for us. We will invest again in 2023 in further insulation, new front door, etc., plus the stove, that is already the maximum possible.