Heating a house with a wood stove requires the house be designed for it. It either has to be a large open space, like mine, or designed so that the warmth can be circulated much like a forced air system. With the proper design and adequate size stove it's quite possible to heat a house in a cold climate, but if not completely at least defer the cost of buying gas or electricity. I also have a forced air system and a programmable thermostat and about a half hour before I get up it kicks on so I don't freeze my niblets before I stoke the stove.

It may not get down into single digits here on a regular basis but it's all relative. Thirty is cold for these old bones. I'm hardly the outdoorsy type any more.


Woody
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My 1951 half-ton 'Ol Red

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