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02/11/09, 07:40 PM
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Wood cook stove
Would a wood cook stove work to heat a house of 800sf, one floor?
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02/11/09, 08:03 PM
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Location: Forests of maine
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It depends on where you are,
How well insulated the house is,
How much Btu the stove is rated for.
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02/11/09, 08:14 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: ozark foothills, Mo
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Originally Posted by Bro. Williams
Would a wood cook stove work to heat a house of 800sf, one floor?
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Yeppers iffin ya want to try and split a rick of cookwood every week..Me first wife decided she rather keep the cookstove roarin all day instead of putting wood in the heating stove...I'd just spent all most of a day splitting wood fer that varmit, by the next weekend she had burn't almost every stick a settin by it sippin her coffee an reading her novels.  Threw that thing out the door when spring arrived, put the propane stove back in. 
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02/11/09, 08:22 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Oklahoma
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No. It will heat a small area, but not for very long. You'll be up all day and night trying to keep the fire going. My place in OK (mild winters) is about that size (800sqft) and super insulated with the foam spray insulation. The real stuff, not the canned junk. It won't heat my place, except right around the stove itself. Purchase a good airtight woodstove as well. The wood cookstove IS a joy to cook on though.
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02/11/09, 11:27 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Most of the old wood cook stoves have a small fire box and are not air tight. They'll cook a meal, but you have to be right there to feed it and a lot of heat goes up the pipe.
There are a few newer wood cook stoves that will heat a house. Pioneer Maid is air tight and has a big fire box. I have seen an older model that had been used to the extream and all sides of the oven were warped.
Elmira will heat a good sized area, too, but they are pricy.
Where you live (climate) and how much insulation you have makes a big difference, too.
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02/12/09, 05:13 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Booger County, MO
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I have a Pioneer Princess cookstove. It is airtight and has a large firebox. My house is 1500 sq. ft. and it's toasty warm. So, yes, it will heat a house.
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02/12/09, 09:57 AM
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One of our neighbors has an old woodstove that we are considering hauling here to clean up and use.
It has a flat shiny cook top.
A single door for feeding the firebox.
On one side is a large box of ductwork. It feeds into that house' forced air ductwork system.
They have both an oil-fired furnace and this wood cook stove, that both can feed heat into the forced-air ductwork to heat their house.
They no longer use the wood cook stove. And they have bought a small wood stove upstairs in their kitchen that they are now using to heat their home.
I do not know yet, exactly how this wood cookstove heats the ductwork. If there is a set of heat radiant fins that heat air, or what.
We will see.
There house is about a 1600 sq ft footprint and 2 story.
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02/12/09, 10:38 AM
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Location: way back in the woods, up on a mountain, in wonderful WV
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The right cookstove will heat the right house. Thing is, that's not what they are designed for. Generally speaking, their firebox is smaller, they are designed to use as much heat as possible for their intended purpose (cooking), etc.
My Granddad taught me something that has served me well... use a tool for what, and in the way, it was designed. They'll last longer and do the work easier.
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02/12/09, 02:17 PM
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A possible crazy tangent ...
A few years ago I read about a really different wood burning cook stove. Something that took like ten bucks to build and would cook using ten times less wood and produced 20 times less smoke.
Well, there's lots more to say, but I'll try to cut to the chase ...
Here's a pdf that seems to cover it pretty well
http://bioenergylists.org/stovesdoc/...Cookstoves.pdf
And there is a similar technique for heating - I took a workshop on that last weekend:
workshop:
view of an existing heater:
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02/12/09, 03:22 PM
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Location: Beautiful Milton, New Hampshire
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Ours makes the kitchen toasty when we are using it, but I wouldn't say it keeps the room very warm.
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02/12/09, 04:05 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Booger County, MO
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Quote:
Originally Posted by homesteadforty
The right cookstove will heat the right house. Thing is, that's not what they are designed for. Generally speaking, their firebox is smaller, they are designed to use as much heat as possible for their intended purpose (cooking), etc.
My Granddad taught me something that has served me well... use a tool for what, and in the way, it was designed. They'll last longer and do the work easier.
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Although this is true of the old cookstoves, the new ones, or at least some of them, are meant to be used for heating and cooking. They have large fireboxes and are rated as heating 2000 sq. ft.
If anybody is interested, just Google Pioneer Princess or Baker's Choice.
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