How many of you use wood stoves as the main or supplemental way to heat your house? ......just curious.
How many of you use wood stoves as the main or supplemental way to heat your house? ......just curious.
We did when we lived in the sticks when I was like 5 years old. There were bats in the basement/bomb shelter though so I didn't like going down there. Then my dad became management and we skyrocketed to a house in the sticks with heat.
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I use one to make our family room tolerable in the winter (basement walk out)
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Originally Posted by SkinBasket
What a wimp.
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my parents had one in a walkout basement when i was in high school
that thing was great. i'm not sure if it works good for a whole house, but it was nice for a 400sq room
are you talking about a little indoor stove, or an outdoor burner?
i know a lot of people around here that use the outdoor wood burners as the main way to heat their homes, they swear by them. the only draw back is you need a steady supply of wood
Our house is roughly 3400 sq. ft. It's a basic colonial with center chimney, center stairway. We have a wood stove in the kitchen (Jøtul).........and it does heat the whole house(keeps it at about 73 downstairs, 66 upstairs)......altho, I do have to keep one of the kitchen windows cracked....it's hotter than hell in there.
We have a nice enameled Dover stove in the center of the house we use as a supplemental when it gets cold. I have loads of birch from a few aphid kills I burn throughout the winter.
How much is a cord of wood going for anywhere?
If you find the right person you should be able to get a cord of good quality wood for $100 - or less if you're in the woods and have plenty of sources. If you use one of those landscaping places that keeps a mountain of split wood out back or some dick out to milk rich people with fireplaces, they'll sell you a face cord for $100 - $150.
Before we started clearing my parents land, we had a guy who would deliver a cord of black walnut 40 miles for $100.
I don't know if you crazy coasters value your trees more since you use them differently than we do...
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Please define what you mean by a "cord" of wood. The original cord was 4'X8'X4'. People who sell it for recreational wood-buring often use the 4'X8'X18". What measurements do they use in "Yankee" country,PIP?
The other drawback is that a lot of places are banning them because of their smoke and fumes.
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who pays for wood?
who pays for wood?
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very nice
A full cord 4'X8'X4'is 128 cubic feet. The other, 4'X8'X18" is a face cord. Here in Yankee-land, a full cord of cut, seasoned wood goes for $200. I know.....ouch! The plus side to this........we haven't bought oil since last April.Please define what you mean by a "cord" of wood. The original cord was 4'X8'X4'. People who sell it for recreational wood-buring often use the 4'X8'X18". What measurements do they use in "Yankee" country,PIP?
I thought the whole purpose of a wood burner is to keep you warm twice. once when you cut, split and stack the wood and once when you burn it. if your paying someone else to to cut split and stack, you not seeing the full value of your investment.
hell we don't even heat our deer camp tent with wood. who wants to get up in the middle of the night to throw another log on the fire?
This is the first year we've ever gotten it cut and split.......we still stack.(it's an age thing) Used to get slab woood. Here in CT, there just aren't alot of places left to go and cut your own. Besides......don't you cut, split and stack before the weather turns cold?
I throw the last log in around 11pm...........it's still 'glowing' at 6.
With the price of oil down, it's tempting to just turn up the thermostat.........but even with the lower prices (but now the lower temps, yikes!) I don't know of anyone around here who can heat their house for $600-700 for the whole winter. It doesn't hurt that that we face the sun all day long....with 9 windows across the front.
The first year we were in this house, 28 years ago, I actually used the old cookstove 100% to cook with, the gauge on the front has 3 temps (it was an old Universal) ....warm, hot and very hot......everyone needs to do that at least once......only once.
When I lived in Wisconsin, much of our primary heat was wood heat. Red oak was my favorite because it was relatively easy to split and emitted a high level of BYU's.
There is nothing like to warmth of wood heat, IMO.
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