As I drove by the houses in our town recently, I l gained something shocking; There are a lot of people in our part that still use wood-burning stoves for heat.
This has regularly surprised me, then when I was a kid, our family never had wood heat, however every one of us regularly used a gas furnace for heat, and I didn’t realize that there were other forms of heat.
When I understood an Heating and A/C system, I understood that a massive unit in our basement created heat that came out of the vent, but in fact, I didn’t suppose anything about wood heat until I was a teenager, residing in a smaller 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 house would be heated all day and all night with easily little effort from you, all you had to do was make sure that your bills were paid and that you adjusted the temperature control to the temperature that you thought was comfortable. With wood-burning gas furnaces, you would have to work taxing to cut the wood, haul the wood, kindle the fire, and keep the fire going… You could try to keep the fire going while you were sleeping, but there was regularly an inherent risk that your house would catch fire or that the fire would go out. Some people claim that wood-stoves are cheaper to use than gas furnaces, but that is only tplot if you are willing to cut the wood down on your own land, however buying wood from others is luxurious. The only luck that I can believe of is that you can use these heating systems without electricity.