Wood Stove
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A Beginner’s Guide to Heating Systems
No matter what fuel you choose, look for an appliance that will use it efficiently
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All About Makeup Air
If your house is very tight, you may need to provide a source of makeup air for your exhaust appliances
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Flatrock Passive: Firing Up the Heating System
A wood-fired gasification boiler is the centerpiece of this Passive House heating system
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Things You Do Not Need
And a few things you do
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Brick Chimneys With Multiple Flues
Wood-burning appliances are incompatible with a modern airtight home — especially if the home has a brick chimney with multiple flues
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Choosing a New Wood Stove
Matching the heat output of the stove with the heat load of the house, and leaving room for the quirks of human operators
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Vermont House Uses Only Half a Cord of Firewood
In Ripton, Vermont, this fuel-stingy replica of Chris Corson’s Maine Passivhaus was heated last winter by a small wood stove
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When the Gas Pipeline Shuts Down
What would happen to urban residents if utilities stopped delivering natural gas and electricity?
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Why Is This Wood Stove Misbehaving?
A basement wood stove should provide inexpensive supplemental heat, but this homeowner is never sure when it will backdraft and smoke
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Heating System Safety In Cold Weather
Most house fires occur during cold weather, when wood stoves are cranked up and portable electric space heaters are brought out of the basement and plugged in