Just curious to how many of you heat with a wood stove or insert? We do. We have two of them in our 2300sqft home. I love everything about it. The smell, the gathering, the cutting, the chainsaws smell, sound and even filing the chains. The prep that goes into it throughout the year to prepair for the winter. Then the carrying in of the wood and of course the smell that fills the country air. There is nothing like it. Being in the south, I don't have to build a fire every day and we do have central heat and air but, It most certainly helps out when the temps hit the teens. The heaters have been in the house since the 60's and before that all the way back to 1937 when first part of the house was built they used wood then also. I hope to pass this on to my boys even if they only use them every now and then.
I had wood heat growing up and miss it!! My current house only has electric, with a gas wall heater sitting in the basement waiting on the gas guy to come run my lines. I really hope in my next house I have a wood stove....even though a good friend of mines chimney caught on fire a couple of weeks ago. :/
Growing up everyone in my family used a wood stove to heat the house i loved it, we use to get the hole family at someones house and just split wood drink beers all day who ever was getting the wood cut would be cooking food on the grill for everyone to. for work it was alot of fun spending time with everyone. The best thing about it is by the time you get it in the stove its all ready heated you 5 or 6 times. Now that my parents are getting older they have stoped using wood stove and have made the jump to pellet stoves. i find less of a focal point for gatherings but i much preferred the wood stove nothing like 4 or 5 big pieces of oak to heat the hole floor for a few hours!
I enjoy most aspects of it. I struggle at times getting heat to most of my home since the stove in the basement. I still have to supliment it I'm cold days and even then I still burn through much more than I would if it was on the main level. Perhaps in my next home.
I heated/supplemented heat with inserts in a couple houses I owned. I was fortunate to get the wood free so the cost was NOTHING. I liked it but don't miss the mess and ashes and bark all over the floor etc etc. besides that, where I live now you need a LOTof wood to do any good in a normal winter. I don't miss it .... but it was nice when I was doing it.
I've not bought a gallon of heating fuel since 2007. Our first home had a small ambient heat woodstove in the basement. Had to burn it hard to heat the whole house. Burned something like 12 or 13 cord that year. Burned 11 or 12 the next. Then I bought a furnace style wood stove and tapped it into my duct work. Bam, same house 8 cord and alot warmer and easier. I now have another furnace style stove in our new home and expect to burn 6 or 7 with an additional 500 square feet. Another bonus is that our new home is 5 miles from our cabin land where I cut. I'm sure I'll be heating with wood for a long time.
Grew up with the woodstoves...still have one but use a outdoor woodboiler...13-15 logger cords per yr heating the house and 40x60 polebarn. Tonight is going to be 10-14 below and is now -8...kind of normal for jan-feb here.
Same as you Wolve, I grew up with one too but now have an outside wood boiler. To be honest I'm sick of It though. Big reason for me Is It's too much work. I burn allot of wood heating 3 buildings. I also have LP back up for the house.
Our last house had wood supplement, and it made a huge difference in the heating bill. I now have a heat pump, which is efficient as all get out, but still miss the coziness of a good old fire. Have it in the pole barn, but wish I had at least a fire place in the house.
We use a wood stove at the house, it blows the warm air right up the stairs and into the main floor. You can make it so hot in the house that you have to open the windows up. We don't burn near as much as Shultzy, but I like getting out and filling the truck bed up after deer season. I'm glad I cut quite a bit already, as my transmission gave out a couple weeks ago. No more wood cutting until I get the new one put in...
We heat our house with a woodburner. The way it's set up we have a blower that kicks on every so often and it comes through our central air ducts. It's awesome to an extent because sometimes the temperature can get kinda hard to regulate and it almost ends up being too hot with temperatures around 74 degrees. We actually just got done splitting up some wood today and have our basement full with about 6 or 7 truckloads sitting in a pile aging til we burn what we have in the basement. It sure saves a lot of money though.
Yeah them outdoor boilers can get to be a chore to load but you get to burn cheaper green wood and dirty wood without dulling so many chains...use a tractor with the forks or loghauler(trailer with loader) to forward to the shed. I work in the woods so get most of the wood for free too, just pay for a log truck haul every 2 years.
Just boughy a new house that was already plumbed for a outdoor wood boiler, so i put one in and love the heat and the savings, my last place i put in a fire place great heat but very dusty, also just built a 30x40 two story garage that has in floor heat and sep rad. heater awsome. oh yea for $250 more i got the stove in Bill Jordan real tree camo, New here i'll try to post pic
Yup, been using wood my entire life, doubt I will ever stop, I do have electric to sup it, had a furnace in the past to sup it.. but like wood heat over any other. I Burn about 6-8 cord on an easy winter, 8-10 on a tough one 3000 sq. feet hm.. I grew up logging so I really enjoy cutting trees down, working it up into firewood and my boys do too, its good work for them..makes them tough.
Yep, I have a built in stove. It looks like a fireplace, but it's really a 400lb cast iron stove built into the wall. Has a blower and vents on it to move the air. I blow the heat down the hallway to the back bedrooms. My furnace usually won't run at all when i have a fire. Not sure how many cords I burn, don't ever keep track just keep hauling it home.
Up until a couple months ago, I had a Bryan Outdoor Wood Furnace. I have central air with propane furnace but used the wood to supplement it. Worked pretty good and kept down the amt of propane I used. Used it for 3 years, but decided to upgrade in a new Geothermal System a couple months ago, and rid of everything else. I don't miss burning wood one bit. Before investing into any furnace look into Geothermal, as(for me) about 40% of the total costs is paid for by Fed & Rural Electric Rebates. At 450% efficiency it will save you money in the long run, not to mention it does a better job all the way around on my levels, like provide 80% of your hot water with it's waste water, twice as much hot water, irrigates waste water, better circulation, life expectancy 2X as long, acts as a dehumidifyer,. etc
I'm still using an open fireplace for most of our heat.We do keep the T-stat set on 60,but the heat pump wont kick on unless for reason the fire dies down.
We have central heat (gas) and central air. About 4 years ago we installed a wood stove in our basement (unfinished) and plumbed it into the ducting. It's awesome. The gas company actually threatened to come take our gas tank because we weren't using enough. We use it 4-5 months a year, basically day in and day out. If you're not careful the house can be 80 degrees and it's about a 2500 square feet we use it for.
