As I drove by the houses in our neighborhood recently, I l acquired something shocking; There are a lot of people in our part that still use wood-burning stoves for heat.
This has always surprised me, but when I was a kid, our family never had wood heat… Both of us always used a gas furnace for heat, plus I didn’t realize that there were other forms of heat.
When I understood an Heating plus Air Conditioning system, I understood that a giant component in our basement created heat that came out of the vent, in fact, I didn’t know anything about wood heat until I was a teenager, living in a smaller beach house in the South. I didn’t understand why people would want to use wood as a source of heat when they could have a gas furnace. With a gas furnace, your beach house would be heated all morning plus all night with unquestionably little effort from you… All you had to do was make sure that your bills were paid plus that you adjusted the temperature control to the temperature that you thought was comfortable. With wood-burning gas furnaces, you would have to work strenuous to split the wood, haul the wood, kindle the fire, plus keep the fire going, then you could try to keep the fire going while you were sleeping, however there was always an inherent risk that your beach house would catch fire or that the fire would go out. Some people claim that wood-stoves are cheaper to use than gas furnaces, however that is only tplot if you are willing to split the wood down on your own land. Buying wood from others is expensive. The only advantage that I can believe of is that you can use these heating systems without electricity.