Hi Jerry...interesting post...:-) Don't sweat the wood stove thing...you get what you pay for...so do some research on wood stoves. It seems you live on the left coast where you won't need eight cords to keep yourself warm for the winter so a small stove should fit the bill just fine. Buy quality and it will last many years. If you live in one of the sink holes out there in the west...where smog gathers...MOVE...:-) There are lots of good places out there where you can enjoy a wood stove without a problem.
Living underground like a worm would save on heating and cooling...If you
can do all the work yourself it would be a good way to go from what I have
read over the years.
Some pellet stoves have battery back up now from what I have heard...but
have never looked into that type of stove. I recently read in the paper that
the biggest pellet manufacturer is here in Maine.
I have an old All-Nighter wood stove...which is located in my basement. I
bought it used ten years ago so I don't know how old it is. It has a pipe
inside that a blower can be hooked up to...which I've done. I also have
installed a MagicHeat extractor that removes some of the heat from the stove
pipe before it goes up the stack. The stove is also firebrick lined. I burn
between five and eight cords a year...depending on how cold our Maine winter
is...:-) Franklin
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