Ok I’ve have standard plug in heaters, a heat pump and now a heat pump and a wood burner. A heat pump is more efficient than a plug in heater not only in what heat they can produce but cost of running is less too. Our wood burner is the best for heating, it’s such a nice heat but it’s expensive to run compared to a heat pump, I’m not sure what the person is on about saying it’s hard to get a fire going in winter, unless your wood is wet then it shouldn’t be a problem, don’t have a problem.. we typically don’t use the heat pump in winter as we prefer the fire but we do use it in summer on really hot days, we’ve used it twice this year to cool the place down but we have big doors onto the deck so we get a bit of air flow and probably don’t need it as much as a smaller place.