Do You Own A Wood Burning Stove - Do You Like It?


by Paul Zayer - Date: 2007-12-06 - Word Count: 541 Share This!

Wood burning stove? Maybe you have noticed but many people have one these days. When the cold season comes in, it is sure great to have a wood burning stove. I can tell you that.

When I look at a wood burning stove in a store or in a magazine it brings back some nice memories. I truly loved the smell and the nice heat our old wood burning stove was giving us in the kitchen in the cold season.

It may look odd in today's high tech, but wood burning stoves are getting more popular than they have been in almost a century. A lot of people would believe that a wood burning oven was about the least practical article that you could put in your residence. After all, there are so many disadvantage to a wood burning stove. First of all, there isn't the same sort of fine temperature control as with a gas heater. Wood burning stoves, essentially, are either on or off. When they are on, you have to constantly stock them with wood. When they are off, they take hours to heat up again.

On the other hand, the wood burning stove has a lot of advantage too. First of all, wood burning ovens are multipurpose. You can use them to heat a room but you can also use them to dry clothes, and warm cold hands. You can also bake certain food on some wood burning stoves! You also have to think of energy cost. Wood burning stoves used to be thought of as impractical because of the amount of labor that goes into running them. Nowadays, though, they make more and more sense. They burn wood really slowly, and in many areas fire wood is available at no cost. Having a wood burning stove can save you hundreds and hundreds of dollars every winter. For many families, that is no laughing matter.

But there are dangers associated to wood burning stoves. Though they are not hard to maintain, they have dangers that normal gas furnaces do not have. Wood burning stoves need to be in the center of your common space. That signifies that if you have young children, they are at risk. If the children run into the wood burning stoves, they can get burned! In addition, many people believe that wood burning stoves have a lot of greater emissions than other sort of heating systems. Even oil burning furnaces - notorious for the air pollution they generate - are supposed to be healthier for you than wood stoves. If your wood burning stove is not adequately insulated from the residence, it can discharge dangerous indoor pollution and be toxic for you and your family.

Nevertheless, even with all of these disadvantage, wood burning stoves make sense. They are enjoying a renaissance among environmentally aware people. Not only are they more efficient now, but they also allow you to live with less exterior dependence on our decreasing natural gas supply. So next time you look at a wood burning stove, why not stop and have a closer look at it? I am pretty sure that you will love it.

Paul is an Internet lover and really likes sharing information with other people. You can read more about home improvement and

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