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Wood Heater Questions
RenKnitter:
I know that many of you here have mentioned heating your house with wood heaters. After just coming off a terrible ice storm here in ATL, and another one 2 weeks ago, we have been talking of getting a wood heater. We have a 3 bedroom brick ranch house with no fireplace. We have a propane heater for emergency use, but want to do something else.
What type do you have? Do you like it? Can you put a pot on it and heat up food? We would have to buy wood, so this would be only for use a few times a year. We would not have to heat the whole house, because in an emergency we could camp in one room. We were fortunate not to lose power, but many many did, and those with fireplaces were still freezing. We have been researching them, but they are not to be found around here.
Cheryl:
We have an Ashley wood stove. It's old (vintage ;)) but it gets the job done. Our house is small, around 1100 square feet, I think. It was built in 1952 and we don't have an open floor plan so sometimes it's a little tricky heating the back of the house, but overall this heater does a great job. I would love to replace it with something a little prettier but we only paid $35 for it so I'm going to use it until we can't.
We use ours all the time to heat up a pot of beans or soup. That we do by just putting the pot on the top, but if I want to cook something, say fry bacon for example, we can remove the top and place the skillet directly on the firebox. This works out great.
RenKnitter:
My husband looked online and asked at Home Depot, but no one carries or installs them around here. Home Depot said that you can order them online and have them delivered to the store, but they do not install them or know of anyone who does. I think that a fireplace installer might do it. My parents and grandparents had wood heaters, and the room they were in would be hot, and the rest of the house cold. We have an old type ranch house so I don't think that it would heat the whole house, but we would just be using it for emergencies. People here were burning wood picked up in the yard, furniture, anything they could find. No one around here had enough firewood for several days continuous burning. After this storm, there might be a large demand for wood heaters.
Cheryl:
Do you have a Lowes near you? I've seen them at our local one here in Alabama. In fact, that's where we bought our stove pipe and everything we needed to install our heater. My husband and dad installed ours. I hope you can find one because they really do come in handy. We have a small electric heater that we sometimes use in the back of the house but usually don't need it and like you said, in an emergency situation you could all camp out in one room. We've had to do that before when we lived in a different house.
mooremama:
Our house is about as old as Cheryl's and about as big too. We heat with wood exclusively. We have a Fisher Mama Bear. We have a Fisher Baby Bear in Sams garage.
I normally cook a portion of our meal on our stove every day.
We have a gate around our stove since we have young children in the house and I hang our jeans, towels, hoodies, etc on it to dry.
I love my woodstove. :-*
Beth
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