Small woodstove suggestions

[The Chicken Lady]

If you have a woodstove and aren't familiar with wood-burning stoves or fireplaces, please read up on how to clean your vents and chimneys each year.

Burning wood can cause a substance called creosote to build up on the inside of your chimney. If you don't scrape and sweep your chimney each year, you run the danger of setting your chimney -- and your whole house -- on fire.

When I was young, we had a chimney fire due to creosote build-up. My dad had the tools to clean the chimney, but skipped doing it one year for whatever reason. We had to call the fire department out to put out the flames that were shooting out the top of our chimney. It was very scary.

 

[DuckLady]

We just put a wood stove insert in our manufactured home.
It heats the house very well and has a blower on it that kicks on automatically.

It is a Buckman and I love it.

 

[Mahonri]

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Someday, if I ever get a second home up north... I'm getting one of those.

 

[geareduplyn]

I manufactured Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplace Inserts for many years. If you can weld or know someone who does I would be happy to give you the basic dimensions for a stove depending on the size of the wood you would be burning.

 

[swampducks]

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I tried to talk DH into a insert last year but the 2 grand price tag turned him off. Now that propane has gone through the roof he's looking into one of those outdoor fireboxes that heats water into pipes inside the furnace ducts. That is possibly 11 grand installed. AND it won't operate in a power outage.

I still like the wood insert idea just for that reason, at the very least during a power outage it will radiate into the living room.

 

[DuckLady]

Ours was about 3K, but we got 4 cords of mill ends for about $70 delivered. I think that doing that will offset the initial cost of the stove nicely.
We got a big enough one that it sticks out enough for a stove top percolator, but not enough that the code people fainted.

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Quite honestly, it is like wolves circling the cattle. The energy industry is going to get you one way or another. There is (in my big opinion) no reason for fuel prices to be what they are other than elections this year. Rediculous! So I am cutting the forest down (it was monoculture anyway, same age trees, no undergrowth, sterile environment...wrong)!

Just the cost of a local government approved chimney (metalbestous) is $1500 to 2K here. But in the long run will be cheaper than paying $3 or more a gallon for propane or oil, they can kiss the right side of my A......!!!!!!!!! And the left side!!!!!

The wood stove is worth the initial expense. I installed an on demand water heater last fall as well as a woodstove. I bought this house I am in and it had a Hearthstone propane look alike in it. Beautiful 'stove' but expensive to run. I was going to install it in my dining room but them major flooding occured here and I lost my driveway bridge. I (just sold it) installed a real wood burner last year. I bought something called an ELM woodstove because they are made locally just down the road from me (Waterbury, Vermont). The Elm burns excellent but it isn't something you'll find everywhere. It is a lovely stove though.

You will find the Jotul's, they are a very good stove. I live in Vermont and would take a Jotul over a Vermont castings anyday.

I am burning NOW! I love woodstove season!

 

[speckledhen]

We installed a Hearthstone soapstone woodburning stove a few years ago. OMgosh, is this thing wonderful! If you fill up the box, it burns for about 8-10 hours and then, because the soapstone absorbs and radiates heat, it stays hot for another 4 hours. It was installed on the hearth of our fireplace and it's the only heat we use. And it's very handsome, too.

http://www.hearthstonestoves.com/wood-stoves/stove-details?product_id=19

 

[swampducks]

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You wouldn't happen to have a photo of yours on your hearth would you? I think I have to have an insert because one on the hearth in front of the fireplace would just look too odd. But I don't know for sure.

 

[speckledhen]

Sure, here's the picture you requested. We do not have a blower on ours since we sit fairly close to it and really dont need one. It keeps the whole house warm (mine is a very open floorplan):