I don't understand all this about how wood heat is so great.
This last winter was MISERABLE. I'm exhausted from months of lack of sleep. My toes and fingertips STILL hurt from the cold in the house.
The stove would not throw any heat. It would go out with the setting of the sun and I'd fight with it all night to keep it lit.
We discussed it here I believe, and I never found a solution.
Oh it would burn scary hot if you left the bypass damper open. I was afraid of burning the house down. You could hear the flames in the chimney. You had to be careful to not let it burn long like that or the bypass damper would seize up and you couldn't get it closed. Had several scary moments where I had to cut off the intake air and watch it while it creaked and rumbled until it cooled off enough for the damper door to drop.
I'm not spending another winter here if I have to burn wood. The alternative though is oil, which I figured out will cost an average of $3000 a month. $4 a gallon, 1 gallon per cycle, 24 cycles per day. It was running every hour when I had it turned up, and between the last two fill-ups I let it run exactly 6 times, and the fuel delivery guy knocked on the door to ask why he could only get 6.8 gallons into the tanks. I told him I couldn't afford the oil so I turned off the furnace and I've been freezing my nads off for the last 3 months...
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