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We are researching alternative means to heat our home. We were looking at either a wood furnace or a large wood stove. But it seems like a big deal and expense to get either one installed (connecting to the furnace, adding some sort of chimney, etc.).
Has anyone done this? Is it worth the money? I like the idea of the stove, especially if we should lose power.
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you need to check the cost of wood to use and how much wood you'll need for a winter.
because of the high cost of baseboard heaters, we put in a wood stove.. it's wonderful.
it cost us about $3000 to put in but our winter heating bill.. from October through April minimum is about $300-400. So.. we recouped the cost of installation in less than 5 years.. our power bill in the coldest months was $250 just for heating.. with it tapering off at either end.. figure $1000 a year for heating.. spend on average $350 a year for heating now and we save $650 a year.
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We're considering a wood burning insert for our fireplace as a secondary heat source. I need to get going on pricing them, since there's a tax credit available if we were to have one installed by 12/31, I think.
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I'm interested in this, too. Does anyone know anything about the outdoor ones like they showed on the Duggar show awhile ago? I'm wondering if that could be run without power too, if necessary?
I am nervous about having a wood stove in the house because of littles...
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a good fence/gate and we have no probelms Books. Check out the hearth gate by kidco
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We wouldn't have to worry about buying wood, we have plenty. We lost over twenty in a tornado last year, and can always cut down more.
We are looking at putting it in our basement, but that would mean extensive piping to get the smoke out, in addition to connecting it to the furnace to push the heat around the house.
What kind do you have, Jodie?
We only pay about $400 for our total electric bill, so I wonder about recouping our cost. But then part of our concern is that the price of electricity is supposed to sky rocket. We would also like a heat source for power outages. We do have a gas fireplace, but try not to use it because of the cost. Last year, we just "froze our buns off"!
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Jodie, is it tied to your furnace or are you just heating the level that your stove is on? How big is your house?
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small house, all one level, stove appropriately sized for it. It's a Regency stove. My house is only 1096sq ft. But we have a blower on the stove and it will heat my bedroom which is around the 90* corner of the hallway at the end of the long part of the L.
You'd have to look into some sort of fan/blower that will work without electric if you want to use a furnace type when the power it out.
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Hi. Don't know if anyone remembers me. I haven't been online for over a year. I have internet access at my mom's, now. Anyway...I saw this post, and I couldn't resist.
We put in a woodstove over two years ago. We checked into the outdoor, but they are connected to the venting system,and we needed electricity to get the heat in. In a power outage, we'd still be without heat. Atleast that is what we were told. So, we put in an indoor model. Our electric bills now run around $50/month for the winter, and we only need one propane fill up(only half a tank) a year for our hot water. All of our wood has been free so far.
We love it. The initial cost was around $3,000, but we have saved a ton in propane and electricity.
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Hi Jen! I remember you.
Can you tell me how much house you are heating? Did you have an existing chimney or did you have to build one?
I think I want a woodstove that also ties in the ventilation system so that it would heat the whole house but still provide heat when the power is out.
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JenniferS wrote:
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I do! Welcome back!!!
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Hi! Sorry it wook me awhile to get back to this thread.. I just don't get online too much anymore. I'm glad you guys remember me. I'm not as forgetable as I was adfraid I was. LOL.
We have a fairly small house. We heat 1300 square feet with a Buck stove. I can't remember what model. We had to have a chimney put in, which added to the cost some. Our woodstove is not connected to any vents. It is purely radiant heat. We have, on occasion, used fans to blow warm air back toward the rooms that are the farthest from the stove. I do kind of wish it was vented throughout the house, but the house is not unbearably cold. We stay pretty cozy, and we use lots of warm blankets!!!
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Molly, we have a wood burning cookstove and a wood burning furnance. There are plenty of ways around some of the intial expense, pick up a woodstove second hand, the wood furnace was free to us for the hauling, tney are cast iron and vey heavy so some folks are more than willing to unload them if you will come and do teh work. The triple insulated pieps ar expensive, and really a must have, so put your money there. As you stated wood is easy, lots of free wood.
I LOVE having wood heat, it is a constant heat, that warms the bones. I have a small home, one level and VERY drafty windows and flooring and we stay quite snug.
I do believe that any cost you put out, you quickly can recover not paying those utilities. The biggest drag for us, is when we are gone for long periods of time our home is freezing when we return, but if you have secondary heating, we do not, this should not be a problem for you.
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Thanks Molly. I think we will start looking around freecycle and craigslist for a used one. We would want to put it in the basement, we don't have a spot on the main level, but that would mean a lot of pipes to get it up through the levels and out a chimney of sorts.
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