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It frustrates me to no end when I see people posting here and read news articles that refer to an OWB as an outdoor "furnace" or "stove".
So to clear up any confusion, I will define all of these things.
A stove is a wood burning appliance meant for direct space heating or cooking. It is something you have inside your home or building that heats it directly from convection and radiation.
A furnace transmits heat directly to air and distributes the warm air through ducts to heat a building.
A boiler heats water or another liquid and uses it as a heat transfer medium to heat a building. It doesn't matter if the boiler is in the basement, on the roof, out back or in another galaxy, if it heats a liquid, it's a boiler.
Unless you have a lil'house heater or something of similar design you do not have an outdoor wood furnace.
Unless you have a stove meant to be used inside sitting out back, you don't have an outdoor wood stove.
Questions?
So to clear up any confusion, I will define all of these things.
A stove is a wood burning appliance meant for direct space heating or cooking. It is something you have inside your home or building that heats it directly from convection and radiation.
A furnace transmits heat directly to air and distributes the warm air through ducts to heat a building.
A boiler heats water or another liquid and uses it as a heat transfer medium to heat a building. It doesn't matter if the boiler is in the basement, on the roof, out back or in another galaxy, if it heats a liquid, it's a boiler.
Unless you have a lil'house heater or something of similar design you do not have an outdoor wood furnace.
Unless you have a stove meant to be used inside sitting out back, you don't have an outdoor wood stove.
Questions?