Want to get a wood stove.

This stove looks astounding, I don't realize how made a stove, however I intend to get a wood stove for my home, Presently I stuck out in a choice whether I ought to pursue DIY or simply buy instant. Please share your suggestions.

Some insurance companies will not insure you with one inside the house so I have been told. I would opt for the outside ones. You can put in bigger pieces for less splitting and the whole ash and bark mess is outside instead of in the house.

Check first with your ins as some just will not cover them.

When I built my house in '79 I got an "Earth Stove" brand free standing, from a little company near Austin, Tx. Weighs 500ish #, takes an 8" duct,
triple wall vertical vent from the ceiling up. Replaced a door gasket probably 20 years ago, a piece of rope looking thing. Have the solid door or a
screen for the fireplace effect. Likes 20" pieces of wood. Get all that steel hot and you have warmth you can feel. One of the better chunks of
money I ever spent.

I had a wood stove in my last house, mostly because I had an oversupply of wood. My understanding of the insurance thing is much less having to do with a fire thing as it has with a heat thing. My "main" heat was oil but my "supplementary" heat (%75 of it) was wood and there was almost no effect on insurance because the oil was automatic. If you ONLY have wood heat it's a different story because the ins company figures if someone forgets to stoke it the pipes will freeze and burst causing flood damage.

Don't install a fireplace insert type stove without cutting an inspection opening to the flue above it.

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I'll share this suggestion--very good site:

https://www.arboristsite.com/community/

Lots of information about burning wood, cutting wood, everything about harvesting and using wood. Yes, people get off-topic here, but your first question on this site is a bit like me walking into my local tire shop and asking about a down comforter to keep me warm at night. Some tire guys use them, some don't. Just like some tractor guys use wood heat, but many don't. Try the arborists site. You'll learn more than you ever wanted about burning wood.

I grew up cutting wood to heat house.

Indiana will tax you for having a fireplace.

They will tax you for having a heat pump.

You will pay more for insurance with wood heat.

An outside boiler may be the safest way, but the investment and
the amount of wood required to feed those beasts isn't worth
it.

A man built a new house. A guy with a small HVAC business
installed electric heat and AC in house. The man who built the
house invested over $10,000 in an outside boiler. I had to
figure out how to make the fan circulate the air without the
electric heat coming on so the heat from boiler could heat
house. At the same time if he wasn't home, the electric heat
would keep house warm. The electric furnace was hi tech. I had
to scratch my head to figure out to make it work.

I don't like working hard to heat my house. When I did a
complete remodel on my house I installed Anderson casement
windows. My exterior walls have an R19 attic R50.

I installed electric baseboard heat in every room. My total
electric cost for 2000+ ft house is on a fixed bill $135/mo for
12 mo. $1620/year Total cost. My fixed bill is based on last
years electric usage.

I would invest in INSULATION, INSULATION AND MORE INSULATION.
If I lived in the North East, which seems to get blasted all
the time, I would consider having a Natural Gas backup vented
heater that doesn't require electricity.

I have heated my home (all except 12 years ) with wood from my woods going back to 1980. Started with a dual fuel boiler in my basement as fossil fuels were going up in price.
Now have an OWB going on 13th heating season. First I have to ask what you mean when you say"Presently I stuck out in a choice whether I ought to pursue DIY or simply buy
instant".
Any wood heat appliance in your home is no place to scrimp and as already mentioned your insurance agent WILL set you straight real quick. If you think you are going to save
money burning wood, good luck with that. Now if cutting wood is your passion as it is for me then I say go for it. Do your homework, there are several good wood heating sites
and I would add the forestryforum.com to that list.

I have a Fisher Papa Bear wood stove in my basement I bought new in 1977 has done a great job for me.Insurance company charges me $25 year extra for the wood stove.I have downed trees,
dead trees etc all over my farm every year I have to move anyway so wood heat works great for me.Did buy a nice hydraulic wood splitter a couple years ago that has really made
working up the wood easier.Nothing like coming in from the snow or cold rain and sitting by the wood stove,wife cooks on it too.Best sweet potatoes are ones cooked in a cast iron pot on the stove.

I agree that if you are determined to buy a wood stove it should be the best you can afford. Wood heat is safe as long as you do it right. One mistake can kill you and or burn your home.

Some insurance companies will not insure you if you have wood heat. So you may have to check that out before you buy.

I totally agree with Dan. Depending on how much wood is required to heat you home you may not realize any savings. Maintaining saw and chains can take the savings right out heating with wood. Couple of years ago young kid here farming with his dad started cutting and selling firewood for a little extra cash to spend on a girlfriend. His dad insisted that he keep track of all expenses just like they do with the farm. Not counting the kid's labor he made about 7 bucks a heaping pickup load. After the accountant got done with him he sold off his chainsaws and the splitter.

Rick

In 1988 I built a log home with a walk out basement. Built my own wood stove . Insurance agent took pictures of the stove , floor, brick wall behind it etc. I have had insurance ever since & the agent has switched companies too with no problem.

Not to be unsociable, but that certainly is a strange post to make as your first post here.

By the way, we're all electric. :wink:

I agree. Insurance companies get nervous when they see a wood stove.

When I was doing insurance inspections, for most companies I had to fill out a separate report whenever I encountered a wood stove. With good reason. It was astounding the contraptions people came up with for wood heat.

Then too, I felt sorry for a young couple who bought a UL approved stove and paid the company $2500 to install it, thinking they were doing the right thing. Their insurance company didn't buy the installation, and they had to pay someone else to start all over.

On the other issue, my wife and I once owned a house with a wood furnace. We could do about 80% of our heating with wood. Great! Only I added up time and expenses and factored in what we saved on propane. I figured out that when I was cutting and handling firewood I was working for about $3 per hour. It dawned on me that if I wanted to make money on the side, I could do something that was a lot more fun than cutting firewood.

Riding on KCM's response ... I've noticed many posts by names I don't recognize lately asking questions that are strange (simple) questions, how many
people here have emails attached to every post? May be just paranoid here but it's caught my attention as well.

Yea, it?s a asleep pitch, I?m sure they included an html picture and web site to click and amaze us with their free advertising....


The advantage of this home made forum is that stuff doesn?t work that way on here, they can?t flood us with in line spam, and so we only see the text.

Which will be deleted soon enough.

Whatever flavor of religion or not at all one believes in, it sure seems the basic soul of us humans is black and dark and selfish; and it really takes some effort to be a decent human being? All the scams on the internet just shows us the darkness.

Paul

Do yourself a Hugh favor, buy an air tight stove. Brother in law did, he heats his well insulated home with 1
pickup load of wood per year. I did not buy one, bought 1 from Northern Tool instead. It will use 1-2
pickup loads a year to heat 1 big room.

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Where are you located, I have a job to remove a stove from a friends house for the price of fixing the hole in the wall. If you are near central MN it could be a deal. Jim

I have been cutting and burning wood since 8 years old, the oil embargo days. I like doing it, but it is
work. If you have any trees at all, you will eventually have dead ones or limbs to get rid of. A wood stove
solves that problem. But buying wood + the work is not worth it. However, that fire is great to have
during the winter. Hopefully, I never have to stop.

I decided to get a stove for me rather then DIY it.