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- From: Andrew.Cohill@vtssi.vt.edu (Andrew Michael Cohill)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural
- Subject: Re: Wood Heating
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:48:01 GMT
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- Re: Wood Heating
-
- Fireplace inserts are not very good; relative to free-standing stoves,
- you are still going to lose a great deal of radiated heat up the
- chimney. Psychologically, they are not very satisfying because you can't
- really enjoy the radiant heat source the way you can with a free standing
- stove.
-
- If you want the thing out of site, you could put it in the basement and
- put the cold air return right over it. I have a friend with a 3000+ sq.
- ft. house, and that's what he did. He actually has two heat pumps, one
- upstairs and one downstairs, and when he has the stove fired up just runs
- the fan. It works great. If you do that, don't forget to put firewood
- door in the basement wall, like the old coal chute doors. It will save
- you much, much work.
-
- Even if you are putting the stove upstairs, think about designing in an
- insulated, double-door wood box that you can open from the outside and
- load, then walk in the house and open up to take wood out for the stove.
-
- Andrew
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- Andrew.Cohill@vtssi.vt.edu
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