ALES of stoves are off the scale,’ says Paul Chesney, who founded Chesneys, the fireplace and stove specialist, almost 40 years ago. ‘We can’t make enough to keep up.’ He believes that demand is driven by his customers’ desire to be both more self-sufficient and also to have more control of their costs. According to the Stove Industry Alliance (SIA), seasoned logs are now the least expensive domestic heating fuel, costing 74%
