Re: Help! Wood stove heat regulation?


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>> My wood stove is a 450 pound model capable of heating a 2000 sq. ft. home.
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> A one-room home? How is it supposed to spread that heat around all
>rooms, some with closed doors?
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> When I've bought woodstoves, their heat output and space heating
>capacity has invariably been expressed per cubic foot of airspace. That
>information is provided by their manufacturers. To be the sole heat for
>several rooms with closed doors between them, I'd expect a stove with a
>waterjacket, piping hot water to other rooms.
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One of the houses I grew up in had a cast-iron grate in the floor over
one of the kitchen stoves. Dump coal in the stove, open the
grate, open the stairwell door, and you got above-freezing
temperatures in two of the four bedrooms,
the living-room, and the kitchen.



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