How Do You Select A Wood-Burning Stove?
In the Pennsylvania of 2008, I recently paid $4.23 cents per gallon for heating fuel. My neighbor recently paid $4.39. A local government source says the average home in the Northeast uses an average of 1000 gallons per year, depending on the weather. This has many people looking toward alternative wood heating sources. The number of options available are bewildering. A typical fireplace is not an efficient way to heat a home. Here are some basic things you need to know about conventional wood burning appliances designed for home use. In choosing a wood burning appliance, your choices consist of fireplace inserts, standalone wood stoves, and outdoor wood stoves. Most woodstove dealers begin by asking you for the square footage of the area you intend to heat. Stoves are rated accordingly but these are only guidelines. The actual output will depend upon many other factors: convection, location, appropriate operation, even the type of hardwood used Fireplace inserts require a fireplace, a
