Vouchers Available To Replace Your Old Wood Stove

If you have an old, inefficient wood stove, the American Lung Association has a deal for you.

The American Lung Association of the Northeast has introduced the Rockingham County Wood Stove Changeout Program.

The goal of this program is to improve outdoor as well as indoor air quality by getting rid of old wood stoves that are inefficient and high polluting, and replacing them with cleaner burning wood, pellet or gas stoves.

The deal is for Rockingham homeowners who have these types of stoves. They can apply for a voucher to trade in their non-EPA certified wood stove (most likely made before 1989). Vouchers will be granted for $1,000 to replace the non-EPA certified wood stove with a new EPA certified wood stove and $2000 for a new EPA certified wood pellet or gas stove.

Once people receive their voucher, they will have 30 days to enter into a purchase agreement with one of the participating retailers. The retailer then installs the new stove and recycles and makes the old stove inoperable.

Participating stove shops include:

Abundant Life Stoves and Spas, Chichester; All Basics Stove Shop, Merrimack; Alternative Energy Hearth and Patio Shoppe, Hampton Falls; Armstrong Hearth and Home, Manchester; Home and Hearth Conservcation, Hampton Falls; Nordic Stove Shoppe, Dover; Portsmouth Stove and Fireplace, North Hampton; SAF Fire N’Stone, Tilton; Stove Keepers, Brookline; The Fireplace Center, Kingston; The Stove Shoppe, Windham; and The Stove Barn, Concord.

You should know the number of vouchers are limited. If you want to take advantage of the program, it's a first come, first served deal.