kentuckydiesel
ArboristSite Operative
As my wife and I are coming up on our first winter in our new (110+ yr old) farmhouse, I am in the market for a used (possibly antique) wood stove or two...not one of those cheap steel junkers...a nice cast iron piece. Of coarse, nice cast stoves are expensive, so I've been looking at older stuff on craigslist and the like.
The big question is, is there any truth to these new "high efficiency, EPA certified" stoves having a longer burn time while putting out the same or greater heat? If so, is there any downside (heard from one source that they require cleaner/drier wood)?
To be honest, I couldn't give a crap about emissions of "particulate matter", aka "carbon", aka "the 2nd most abundant element in the human body". We're planning to heat this house completely on wood with radiant LP and electric space heaters for backup only, so I'm really just curious if these new stoves really mean less work for the same or more heat???
Thanks,
Phillip
The big question is, is there any truth to these new "high efficiency, EPA certified" stoves having a longer burn time while putting out the same or greater heat? If so, is there any downside (heard from one source that they require cleaner/drier wood)?
To be honest, I couldn't give a crap about emissions of "particulate matter", aka "carbon", aka "the 2nd most abundant element in the human body". We're planning to heat this house completely on wood with radiant LP and electric space heaters for backup only, so I'm really just curious if these new stoves really mean less work for the same or more heat???
Thanks,
Phillip