Who heats with wood?

[Noslo65]

Who really heats with wood? I am not talking about using an open fireplace, for looks.

[tamsam]

We heat with wood and coal depending on the temp. Coal burns hotter than wood and if the temp is above about 25 we have to open windows or try to burn low and soot with coal. For back up when we aren't home to tend the heater we have a ventless propane heater. Sam

[GrannyG]

We use wood in a wood heating stove during the winter months. We also use butane when it is really cold and the house needs some extra warmth. We mostly use oak, but also burn mesquite and some pecan.

[FarmboyBill]

And possible 1/2 in here or thereabouts cook with it. I heat with it, and have a wood rainge. Never use the rainge. Bet I do when I retire

[Beeman]

We use a Vermont Castings wood stove to heat with, have natural gas furnace for a backup.

[seedspreader]

Wood and only wood here. Do you have a question or just wondering?

[Up North Louie]

Pretty much nothing but wood. We have an oil furnace but it hasn't been topped off in years. It's still 2/3 full from the mid 90's. It runs well, we keep it maintained, just use it in the awkward weeks when it's too warm for a fire and too cool for nothing at all.

Don

[Wolf mom]

Yup, wood stove for heat here, with electric furnace back up. Wood's getting so expensive here I'm not sure what I'll be using next year. Only alternative is propane but that's outta sight too.

[Ross]

Done so for years using different methods (stove, indoor furnace and outdoor boiler). Oil back up and some buildings electrically too.

[CarolynRenee]

We just started heating with a Hearthstone wood stove this last winter. We have lots of trees on our property (man, what I would do for some stinking pasture!!) so it seemed logical to use what fuel we have available.

We have electric heat for back-up, but really, really try not to use it as electric bills are getting way out of hand.

The woodstove only heats the upstairs, so we eventually want to get another stove for the basement.

[edcopp]

We heat with wood only. The back up is more wood. We do cook with an electric range and sometimes with a microwave.

[Farmerwilly2]

We use an open fireplace to heat with and it looks good. When that room is nice and toasty you can sit in it and turn the thermostat down. We have picked up an old Monarch wood stove that's going into the kitchen this summer to cook on this winter. When I can get around to it will be laying in a coal supply and will start buying propane tanks. I have a couple kero heaters. I figure heating is a lot like lighting, no need to rely on just one approach. I like redundant backups.

[vallyfarm]

Wood only here too. It's the only heat that feels warm to me. Anytime heat is "piped in" from the sourse it just dosen't feel "to the bone" warm. Mike

[Spinner]

I heat 100% with wood. I used to have propane backup, but the tank is empty and I don't foresee buying propane anytime soon. I figure it'll be wood heat from now on cause I doubt the prices will drop anywhere near affordable.

[Rod Torgeson]

I have been heating with wood for around 30 years or so. Where I live right now I have electric backup but it never comes on unless I go away for a few days in the winter. I also heat my woodshop with a wood stove. In there it gets nice and warm and I can work without a jacket in the middle of winter. It does get pretty cold here in the winter.

Rod<---in Appleton, WA

[Misty]

we use wood. Don't even have an alternate source. I do run a couple space heaters that time of year when it isn't quite cold enough for a fire but you need something to warm the bathroom.

[sammyd]

As a kid we had a wood furnace at a place we bought. Later on when we bought our last farm it had oil and that was replaced the first summer with a wood furnace.
Currently we use wood and have a propane furnace as backup. Since our water heater is propane also we always have the option to turn on the funace but very rarely do.
We get our wood cut split and delivered from a local guy that does it in his spare time since we do not have a woodlot. Even with the higher price of ready made firewood vs making our own it still beats the price of propane. We do not foresee changing to anything else in the near future.

[DJ in WA]

Wood heat here. I have a Quadrafire stove in far side of garage. Put hood over stove with duct going over to house. Cut hole in wall, attached fan and blow heat into house. Cut another hole from upstairs bedroom coming back into garage, so circulate heat.

Laundry room is where duct goes into house, so built a rack of PVC hung up near ceiling to hang clothes (pull off PVC easily). Hot air blows in and dries clothes, then spreads humidity from clothes through house, moisture nice in winter. Electric clothes dryer unused for ten years.

Fortunately this place of 5 acres came with big pine trees which need removed. Contacted loggers, but wasn't worth it to them. So figured trees have value as firewood. Just found out a guy down the street just allowed loggers to clear trees and get 6 loads of logs and had to pay them $1000 on top of that. Made me wonder why I wasn't in the firewood business, except I'm not as young as I once was.

Ponderosa pine isn't the best burning, so I cut pallets at work and bring boards home in boxes to mix in. Seems there is wood everywhere if one is looking for it.

[Quint]

Partially with wood with a propane furnace doing most of the real heavy lifting.

Probably, hopefully, by next fall I'm going to switch over to an outside wood boiler. Propane has become just too expensive and I have over 100 acres of timber. I can probably heat the rest of my life without ever having to a cut a live tree. I've got probably 30 years of fallen timber I can use before I even have to cut a dead standing tree.

I'm going to keep propane as a back-up heating system, for a propane rangetop and possibly for a tankless water heater.

[soulsurvivor]

We've heated with wood about 30 years with a Warm Morning stove. Have an electric furnace that's rarely used.