I want a wood stove.

[Scanker19]

So I hate furnaces, more specifically I hate that dry air that?s not really warm. If that makes sense. I?ve decided that I want a wood burning stove as my primary heat source and keep the furnace as a back up.

it?s a smallish house 1800sq ff Manufsctured home. Like a trailer without wheels?. Looking for recommendations, tips, or anything with any experience with wood stoves. Top contenders right now are Blaze king, but I?d need to find someone to buy a kid or two first. (See ad on the dark web version of this site), or something else.

pros cons of a cat stove from experience, not sales brochures.

[gnihcraes]

Wood or pellet?

I've had great luck with quadrafire pellet stove.

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[earplug]

Humidifier added to your furnace is easier then paying higher insurance premiums and hauling wood. Aprilaire used to be the standard good brand

[BushMasterBoy]

My wood stove is in the middle of the house. Has a 6" chimney. The chimney is all Selkirk products purchased from Lowes. I installed it myself. 1 and 1/2 cords of wood will heat 1400 sq. ft. all winter. The stove was bought used and is made of welded steel. I keep big stainless pot with water on top of it. Ceiling fan helps distribute the heat. The stove looks similar to the one in the link below.


https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200765484_200765484?cm_mmc=Google-pla&utm_source=Google_PLA&utm_medium=Heaters%20%26%20Stoves%20%2B%20Fireplac es%20%3E%20Wood%20Stoves&utm_campaign=Drolet&utm_content=86593&gclid=CjwKCAjwkvWKBhB4EiwA-GHjFoP9X-E9EjGgaMJlESXUfljhT-eLMjD1APYwW1-l_L5vBpKxIKaAlBoCZ2IQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

[3beansalad]

You need one of these. Good luck finding the stove that meets your needs. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20211007/244da25728c2584d31e2c5d2ed6ce5af.jpg

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[BushMasterBoy]

Don't get a cast iron stove. Get a steel welded one like you stated in OP. Cast iron will eventually crack. Blaze King like you mentioned. Or any similar design. I keep a big pot of water on stove for humidification. I burn spruce, pine and aspen. Pinon is usually too expensive. Pallets work, but cutting them is labor intensive. Watch out for treated lumber, it is toxic and corrosive. Elm stinks and the smoke makes me sick. I go on the roof once a year and clean the chimney. Takes about an hour. I just push a 6" chimney brush down the chimney once.
I start the fire with a BBQ lighter plastic bottle I filled with diesel on some kindling piled on top of fuel wood. House is so warm by bedtime, I close the air damper. Most mornings there are still coals and I just open damper and fire restarts. Then I add fuel again. I have a barrel outside I can dump hot ashes into.
The whole process is labor intensive, but it saves me about $2000 a year in heating costs. I never worry about power outages. Propane forced gas air heat is the backup when gone. I turn on the "Fan Only" on thermostat to circulate warm air through whole house vents when running stove. Collect or buy your wood in summer. I use a big aluminum military medical supply box to store wood near the stove for ready use. Actual pic below

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[OtterbatHellcat]

I want one as well, Scanker. Bitch is tearing the shitty fireplace out and then fixin it with a real wood burning stove. $$$

[encorehunter]

Our house is around 3300 square ft, we go through about a cord a month for heat, mostly pinon. We have a lot of pinon and cedar on our land, so we cut most of our wood. We have a small electric wall furnace, but the wood is our primary heat.
A couple thoughts would be, get a stove that heats 2000-2400 feet, a little larger than you may need. Make sure it accepts 18" log lengths and has a squirrel cage blower. I had one with a forge style blower and it put out a lot of heat, but it also increased my electric bill a lot. Have a decent sized flat top so you can cook if needed. Our electricity goes out fairly often, so I make coffee and breakfast on it when needed. Have a coffee pot with guts to make coffee.
We have a thermoelectric fan on top of ours that works well, but it does not move a lot of air. A heat sink like in bushmaster's photo helps hold heatm

[TRnCO]

You'll love it once you do it, as long as you don't mind cutting, splitting, hauling wood, and hopefully you have a "free" source of wood which really is where the savings lye. If you have to buy wood then there's really no savings to be found when compared to gas/propane heat.

We love our wood burner. We have an old Earth Stove and love it, especially love the auto dampener that is on it. Just know that it's a bit of a job feeding it. BUT if a guy works on the wood collecting throughout the year, it's not bad at all. The beauty of burning wood is it'll warm you up several times by the time you get it burned in the stove;)

[theGinsue]

My best friend has a manufactured home and uses a wood stove to heat it. He loves it.

I have no experience (even secondhand) with pellet stoves but think that if the availability of pellets dries up you'll wish you had a wood stove (so long as you have access to wood and a means to cut it).

I've casually looked into getting a wood stove and the one thing I keep hearing is to make sure that your chimney is tall enough to go past the top of your roof. Word is that anything shorter can cause the fumes to cycle back into the home.

[Bailey Guns]

We had a Harmon top-loading wood stove in Bailey for years. Very efficient...would typically burn for 8 - 12 hours. The top-load feature was fantastic. Not only did it make loading easy but it included a grill for cooking over your fire. Of course, the top was also flat so you could cook with a skillet on top, too. Great stove.

Pellet stoves are OK. But you won't have heat if the power goes out. You will with a wood burning stove. I didn't mind the cutting, hauling, blocking and splitting of the wood. I just hated stacking it for some reason.

We replaced an old pot-bellied stove like the one pictured above with the Harmon. It was gorgeous...but terribly inefficient. It would burn 3 or 4 logs to pure ash in a matter of minutes. The proceeds from selling it paid for a good chunk of the Harmon.

[BladesNBarrels]

We had an energy efficient house built in 1980 using the first round of energy credits - they were substantial then.
It was a 3 BR 3 BA raised ranch with 1600 sq ft on the main floor and a double garage and about 900 sq ft on the lower level.
It had a small wood burning stove that was great for heating the great room - brick floor acting as a heat sink.
We could load about 3 18" x 6" logs and it would keep the great room warm all night and it had enough flat surface on the top to keep a kettle of water and cook using one pan at a time.
We had hot water base board heat that was solar heated during the day.
Our gas bill for the winter months ran about $30 per month.
Looking at the images on line, it looked a lot like the Harman stoves, but without the glass front.
The secret to the energy efficiency was lots of insulation and no windows to the north, a double entry way to prevent cold getting in with the doors open, passive solar windows to the south, and the brick floor as a heat sink.

[Scanker19]

I for sure want nothing to do with pellets. Like ginsue said, if I can cut wood I have fuel.

I?ve never liked forced air heat. I?d rather the house be cold and then put something on. Electric blanket, another coat etc. it?s not so much as dry as it?s just weird to me. I?m crazy so that may be why.

I ended settleding on a Blaze king today. So I?ll know more in 3-5 weeks when they can get out to install it.

Insurance premiums shouldn?t go up much. My Co said it was an add on as long as a licensed installer put it in.

[TEAMRICO]

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You know what to do…….

[Scanker19]

Sorry, I’m not Licensed on that anymore.

FYI don’t light those hot.

Also wasn’t licensed then either…

[Gman]

My folks had one a their cottage in Hansville, WA that was amazing. Had a glass door and the draft kept it clean. I liked being able to watch the fire through the door. It produced a ton of heat and was efficient. If I ever find out what that was, I'm getting at least 1.