Woodstoves are only dangerous when installed and operated improperly. Coming
from Maine I've sure seen my share of scary ones.
You need 36" all around the stove to any flamable material, that includes down
so a good hearth pad of some sort is important.
You don't need a masonry chimney although for a stove that will be used alot it
is preferable.
Then you need to not burn all wet nasty wood and you need to keep the stove hot
so it won't create creosote.
I've got only 1/4 acre and bought 1 cord of wood last year. This summer I
scored at least 3 cords of good red oak, that should hold me the whole winter
plus some and only cost time and gas to get it.
I've got acreage but its so far away as to make hauling wood off it for my
house foolish.
The guy who sits next to me also heats heavily with wood but buys all of his.
He got 2 1/2 cords of "good hardwood" this year but his definition of good and
mine vary considerably so his is still pretty wet and he ends up cleaning his
chimney twice a year where I haven't had to clean mine yet in just over a year.
I'll probably clean it this spring even though it shows no signs of needing it.
Of course he smoulders his stove all day and all night where I keep the fire
hot or let it go out...
Anyway when it comes to heat your 7000watt generator isn't very much, 1500
watts is about 5,000 BTU so you've got somewhere around 10,000 BTUs of heat
available...
It might run your furnace but I wouldn't want to stake my pipes on it...
We've had this discussion before and it boils down to different things for
different folks. For me the woodstove works perfectly, my folks like a little
less physical effort so they've got a coal stove and keep a couple hundred
pounds of coal around.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:27:11 -0600
From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] EMERGENCY HOUSE HEAT
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Unfortunately, a legal woodstove hookup has become pretty expensive.
The building inspectors and insurance people
don't make it an easy or cheap thing to do anymore. Probably good as
woodstoves are potentially dangerous. The
approved stoves are pricey and then one has to put in an approved
chimney. Brick or tile surround to prevent fire
and all that sort of thing. Then if one does not live on an acreage,
one has to buy wood and then has to store
sufficient wood to last for the unknown number of days that one will
need heat. We have a woodstove at the cottage
and need to move it so need to do the new chimney and tile to permit
it to be in a different spot. These days the
insurance people are pretty careful about coverage for houses with
woodstoves. One must have so many inches of
clearance behind, in front, and to the sides so it also ends up using
up a fair amount of space. I have often
thought it would be good to have one in our house as a backup but have
not done it as I lack space and the desire
to spend enough to do it well. I therefore have a 7000Watt gas powered
generator, a Coleman stove and a propane BBQ
and hope that any power outage will be short lived. I don't keep a
whole lot of gasoline on hand but assume that
one or more of our vehicles will be reasonably full and provide quite a
bit more for the generator if need be.
Randy
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