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You don't have to have a blower with a fireplace insert. https://chimneysweeponline.com/hosummitblower.htm

I see by the catalogs my friend likes to bring me that there are about a million stoves on the market these days. I don't know if the European ones are much marketed in the states and Canada, but those companies are really cooking on new designs, maybe the functionality as well. From ultra...

I give a lot of firewood away, have a soft spot for people in such need. Sometimes after when I'm getting my own stash together, I think, "Why'd I do that?"

Thanks for explaining. I think with pellet stoves, which at least over here seem to be gaining in popularity, improvements in how they work and durability will come with greater sales and competition. A friend of mine that sells stoves drops off catalogs. I'm not interested in purchasing one...

Squish, an earlier post of yours has me curious. What's the logic that pellets should be free? Are you just saying that firewood is so much better?

A friend of mine is a wood heat stove dealer. He keeps telling me that with the improvements in pellet stoves, they might well be the way to go for a lot of people. Aside from the positives that surveyor mentioned, I think the pellets produce a lot less ash than firewood.

I had a small pot bellied coal stove once, heated a cabin with it. Good consistent heat and burns hot. Don't go to sleep with the damper closed.

One good thing about a stove that can also be a blast furnace, is that if you get the stove pipe red hot, then let it cool, by tapping it a few times with a stick, the carbon build up inside just mostly falls out into the stove. Probably not recommended for your average home installation.

Thanks, Burnham, nice to read you say that. I see a lot of movement in the steel plate stove. Nothing damaging to the point of dysfunctional, but I would guess one of the possible disadvantages compared to cast iron. The box plate that sits on top was very securely welded at four places along...

Sleepy time stove works! Homemade from a well tank, second generation, and yeah she ain't pretty. I wouldn't exactly pride on the efficiency, but great for cooking and smoking too, with the rack carrier I welded in there.....zillions of meals. A great hot lunch in a few minutes. I can control...