5. a Quiet fan in them is the key, otherwise they dont heat well, we had one we put a regular fan on
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one side so it blew air around it and out the other side, be sure to check your chimney, keep it clean.. we had a brush.. it was our only heat in Bellingham WA
we had an inexhaustible supply of oak so we were able to heat fairly cheap with it but the Air Quality Police sorta put the kibosh on wood fires in our area so we converted about five years ago to a pellet stove.
But we've never used it, because before we fired it up, we had the chimney inspected. Good thing we did; there had been a fire at one time and it was cracked.
So I keep wondering if anyone would be interested in *professionally* removing our insert. I'd like to just stick one of those fake electric ones in there and not ever worry about it.
And it works well. We built up the hearth around it as to hold more of the heat. I wouldnt use one that didnt have a fan though as they circulate very little air as opposed to a free-standing woodstove. Ours heats a 1300 square foot home.
9. Years ago my parents had one in their 3-BR, 2.5-BA trilevel in
Colorado Springs and they LOVED it. It would basically heat the whole house for them. It did have a fan to distribute the heat out from behind the thing.
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