Anyone Up On Modern Woodstoves

[Pat McGinty]

Careful, that stuff burns.

I have a Lopi that's been in service in a stone stack since '78. We empty a ten cord woodshed into each winter. I change the firebricks every few years but, otherwise no trouble.

 

[prime minister]

Made a real big fire In It tonight, and holy cow is the house ever hot. No worries about the house being not warm in the morning.

Smaller fire tomorrow.....

 

[prime minister]

Careful, that stuff burns.

I have a Lopi that's been in service in a stone stack since '78. We empty a ten cord woodshed into each winter. I change the firebricks every few years but, otherwise no trouble.

Any recommendations for keeping those gorgeous veneers happy in dry houses during the winter?

 

[prime minister]

The downside to the first year of wood stove Use is actually getting the wood! Challenging to get properly dried wood this time of year. I plan to buy a load in the spring and let it dry all summer. But, that doesn't help for this winter.

 

[Fran604g]

This time of year the prices will be jacked up, too.

 

[prime minister]

This time of year the prices will be jacked up, too.

Yup.
'I may buy a bunch of those compressed wood blocks to get fires started. Get it into the clean burning zone a lot faster.

 

[MikeyFresh]

Yup.
'I may buy a bunch of those compressed wood blocks to get fires started. Get it into the clean burning zone a lot faster.

Those really do work quite well, great item to have on a camping trip too, I'll cheat like that every time.

 

[Leben]

The downside to the first year of wood stove Use is actually getting the wood! Challenging to get properly dried wood this time of year. I plan to buy a load in the spring and let it dry all summer. But, that doesn't help for this winter.

That is definitely the biggest challenge! Around here it takes a couple of years or more to really dry out (especially hardwood). Everyone selling wood here has aged/seasoned wood. Hopefully you can find some for sale locally.

We supplement with wood heat so we go through a fair amount every year. We never know what kind of winter we will have and like to be prepared in case of outages so we try to have as much on hand as possible. Our neighbor and I often split wood together. That way we both stay motivated and normally keep up with our usage. We had a Derecho storm come through here this summer so we have a lot of wood to cut and split this year.

Here's what we've cut and split so far. There is much, much more to do

The rest of our pile, we alternate where we pull from every year to make sure we always use what is dry.



I've been burning wood my whole life. It's become part of my lifestyle but I admit that it is getting harder to harvest and process the amount required to get through a winter. I'll likely continue as long as I physically can. There's no heat like radiant wood heat!

 

[prime minister]

It is a different world heating a house with a wood a pellet stove. Having spent most of my life with central heating of one kind of another, having two hot spots in the house, and regulating them, is a different deal. Plus, their seems to be a certain amount of heat soak in the house. Get it hot enough, and the bones of the house get warm, and stay warm, for a very long time.

'Then there is the challenge of moving the hot air to areas of cold air.

Much to learn!

 

[ChrisO]

I'm not up on wood stoves - but I am having my fireplace upgraded - I'm moving from a single standard wood burning fireplace to a 43inch double sided fireplace (which will now be visible from Living room, kitchen and music room.) I'm hugely looking forward to this - I'll now have a fireplace view from my music room.

I just picked up a half cord of shaggy alligator juniper - very fragrant - and great crackles.

 

[prime minister]

I'm not up on wood stoves - but I am having my fireplace upgraded - I'm moving from a single standard wood burning fireplace to a 43inch double sided fireplace (which will now be visible from Living room, kitchen and music room.) I'm hugely looking forward to this - I'll now have a fireplace view from my music room.

I just picked up a half cord of shaggy alligator juniper - very fragrant - and great crackles.

That we need to see pictures of.