Off-Grid emergency heating for bug in.

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I like the soap stone stove idea. Can you just put those in any house? basically cutting a hole in one of the walls for the chimney? I have a gas fireplace, but gas will not be around forever. Plus it requires electricity. I can run it off of a couple C-cells in theory and there is a place to put batteries in a battery pack, but that isn't forever.

Layers of preparedness. Short term i have a Mr Heater, but I need to start thinking about what if...

Yes you can pretty much put one in any house. My mom's house was built around all the newest modern conveniences and efficiency standards and it worked out just fine. Same with my brother's place as he put one in as well. In Northern MN it's really a matter of economics driving their decisions on that since wood is VERY plentiful and they both live in areas where Natural gas isn't an option. So heating costs due to Propane or Electric get very expensive when you're running a furnace from October - May most years. Wood is cheap when you cut and split your own, and the soapstone stoves with the catalytic burn chamber don't take a lot of wood.

Then since both places have a forced air furnace, when they are heating off wood, they set the thermostat to the A/C setting and turn off the breaker for the AC, This automatically runs the furnace fan when temps get high in the living room and circulates it throughout the house. Works great when you've got a house that's got a basement and also warms the other rooms in the house that are away from the living room.

If I knew I was going to stay in my current house for the long haul, I'd probably add one to it as well.