Kamin ovens in the crisis: How to avoid the ban 2025!

Kamin ovens in the crisis: How to avoid the ban 2025!

At the turn of the year, new, strict regulations for stoves will come into force from January 2025, which aim to contain climate change. From now on, owners of old stoves have to act, since many of these devices no longer meet the new environmental standards. This regulation affects all over Germany, especially in Baden-Württemberg, an estimated 200,000 old stoves. Schornsteinfeger Simon Bachstadt from Oberreichenbach reports of around 500 stoves in his district, which have to be shut down by the end of the year because they cannot adhere to the new limit values, just like the SWR Reporting

stricter limit values for the environment

As part of the Federal Immission Protection Ordinance, all stoves that were put into operation before 2010 must be exchanged by the end of 2024, provided that they do not meet the new limit values. These affect both fine dust and carbon monoxide, with strict limit values of 4 grams of carbon dioxide and 0.15 grams of fine dust per cubic meter exhaust gas. If you save with an old stove, you should know that switching to modern, efficient models could not only be more environmentally friendly, but also cost -saving in wood use. According to the chimney honor Bachstädter, the wood requirement of new devices is around 30 percent lower than in older models, such as the