Re: Wood stove for smaller home
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01/30/23 10:18 PM
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Ever consider an outdoor boiler wood stove? Insurance wouldn't/shouldn't be as big of concern and all the mess is outside.
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Re: Wood stove for smaller home
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Ever consider an outdoor boiler wood stove? Insurance wouldn't/shouldn't be as big of concern and all the mess is outside. X2 I thought about looking for a small outside one but I don't know if they make small ones
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Re: Wood stove for smaller home
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01/30/23 11:25 PM
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Quadra fire 2100
my house is old1900 and about 1300sq feet with up stairs
you need one big enough that you can get some wood in the fire box you can build a smaller fire , let it burn out , choke down the air
on 30 below nights I have a hard time keeping up with the fire have to load it every 2 hours on 40 degree days I might have a fire in the morning and be good most of the day have another fire at night
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Re: Wood stove for smaller home
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01/31/23 10:24 AM
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BUT the size of the stove doesn't matter. The size of the fire inside it matters. Run a small fire. That's all I do This is true with regard to the heat generated, but not the efficiency of the burn or the cresote generated or the pollutants emitted. Stoves are designed for a certain size fire that will give the heat needed while allowing the stove temp to get high enough to burn gasses emitted from the wood that would otherwise go up the chimney, deposit cresote as they cool, and escape as smoke. Burning those gasses also generates additional heat so you use less wood. With a large catalytic combustor stove and a small fire you might never reach the temp needed to swap the flue gas path through the combustor.
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Re: Wood stove for smaller home
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Ever consider an outdoor boiler wood stove? Insurance wouldn't/shouldn't be as big of concern and all the mess is outside. X2 I thought about looking for a small outside one but I don't know if they make small ones as long as my stove was professionally installed on the main floor of the house , no change in my insurance , I called my agent before purchasing the stove.
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Re: Wood stove for smaller home
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I know this is not what you are talking about but if your goal is heat this may help? I have a furnace I got from Tractor Supply in East Peoria. I have had it for 15 years and in 2 houses. It made my 820 sf house about 90 degrees and we had to open the windows - now I'm in a 1600 sf house and looking at a bigger one so I don't have to run it so hot all the time. It says Hot Blast on the front and it's a furnace- not a stove so it is attached to our forced air ducts. I put 30'' long pieces in it, It's in our basement. Insurance was fine with it because I also have a regular furnace so this is not the primary heat for the house - that's how they looked at it. We depend on this until it gets very cold and then if needed we supplement with the regular furnace.
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Re: Wood stove for smaller home
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When you decide on a stove, be sure to pay attention to the minimum Flue height recommendations,according to your Altitude. I noticed that while looking through manual for the Lopi. Says 15’ minimum and 33’ maximum from stove to top of chimney.
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