What's the future for wood furnaces and stoves?

[Mustang71]

I ask because I'm ready to throw this 5 year old daka in the scrap pile and buy an englander furnace.

Then I stop my self and think if I can buy a secondary burn EPA furnace for a grand today then what will I be able to buy for that price in 5 years. Things like the drolet are a ridiculous price. I can get a 98 percent efficent modulating lennox furnace for 1600 y pay 4500 for a wood furnace.

What's the future for non EPA stuff?

 

[Deleted member 149229]

If the “New Green Deal” would ever go thru we’ll all be required to have solar panels and windmills on our roofs and no burning of any kind.

 

[U&A]

I think non epa stoves sill still be sold for a while.


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[Mustang71]

I agree but clearly something needs to be done because a furnace with a secondary burn and the efficiency of a stove is 4 times the price. There needs to be a minimum efficiency like gas furnaces and boilers.

 

[user 122190]

I have burning restrictions from time to time due to inversion layers. I completely ignore and burn regardless. Nobody has ever said a thing, and if they did I would tell them to kiss my john brown.

 

[Marley5]

I think after my non EPA stove rusts out " it will " I'll be done cutting wood and succumb to a high efficiency heatpump.

Can't believe California carries that much clout.

 

[Natster]

If you can find a fisher grandpa bear, on Craigslist, you'll have a good stove.
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[Natster]

What's polutin Calif is not wood stoves, but people that have thrown God, and his book away.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

What's polutin Calif is not wood stoves, but people that have thrown God, and his book away.

California is the perfect breakfast cereal, full of fruit, flakes and nuts.

 

[James Miller]

I'm using a 25 year old VC and theres a basicly new one that's the same age waiting its turn in the garage. Doubt I'll need to buy a another wood stove in my life time.

 

[NSMaple1]

I ask because I'm ready to throw this 5 year old daka in the scrap pile and buy an englander furnace.

Then I stop my self and think if I can buy a secondary burn EPA furnace for a grand today then what will I be able to buy for that price in 5 years. Things like the drolet are a ridiculous price. I can get a 98 percent efficent modulating lennox furnace for 1600 y pay 4500 for a wood furnace.

What's the future for non EPA stuff?

Drolets are 4500??

 

[sirbuildalot]

Buy a non epa stove and keep it in dry storage. When your old one wears out....Replace!!!

 

[Be Stihl]

I bought a pre EPA wood stove over 30 years old. As long as I can buy burn plates for the inside, I plan on keeping it rocking.


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[Mustang71]

Drolets are 4500??

No they are like 1800 now when I first looked a few years ago they were 4500. It does seem like furnace prices have come down. An "83" percent efficent Ashley furnace is 1800.

 

[NSMaple1]

5 years isn't very good for a furnace.

Is it shot? Or it just doesn't work right?

 

[sirbuildalot]

Seems lot of people get caught up on efficiency percentages. Thing is....a lot of the high efficiency wood burners are much fussier about what goes in them and have more electronics that can fail/need to be replaced.

Kind of like silly chainsaw wars. My saw is .2 lbs. lighter than yours and .1 more hp. Who gives a ****. Why aren't you mentioning that it cost twice as much and is twice as expensive to repair? At the end of the day they both cut wood an do what they are intended to do.

Some people would rather just burn an extra cord or two than worry if the wood is X% seasoned and so on, and need a computer science degree to operate it. Sometimes simple is better.

 

[Mustang71]

5 years isn't very good for a furnace.

Is it shot? Or it just doesn't work right?

Nothing wrong with it but it's horrible on wood consumption and needs to be watched. Get it fully going by 6 PM put 4 to 5 logs in it and by 8pm it's down to coals. Some days that means good heat if you watch it other days it's not as much heat if you weren't moving the logs around.

 

[4seasons]

I still use an old wood/coal stove that was here when I bought the house 15 years ago. It has been patched back together 3 times and completely rebuilt once. Regardless of what government regulations pass, people who live in free areas of the country will use what they have and not care. Anyone who is handy with a welder and has access to steel can build a wood stove. The basic design is pretty simple. If it is efficiency that you want check into rocket mass heaters. I have built a rocket stove using nothing more than mud and ash from my own yard. There are to many simple ways to heat with wood for government to ever get rid of it.

 

[Woodchuck71]

IF they do decide to,IMHO,it would be a combination of people not burning what they should be,and those OWB that sit and smolder 24/7.There is a place in the town is live in on the main drag,2 family's have OWB's,it's in a low lying area, and you'd think it's foggy all the time.
Or the let's cut green in September and burn in October crowd

 

[Hinerman]

I think non epa stoves sill still be sold for a while.


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Can you or somebody give examples of non-epa stoves still available?