Who REALLY heats with wood... as in NO other heat source?

99% wood. We have central heat and air but the heat hasn't been on at all this year. The only thing I don't like is that I can't cook with a Buck Stove. I do love my AC though.

100% wood

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Does your wife buy wood while you are over there?

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Just a wood stove here.

There's nothing like a cozy chair, a cup of tea and a stack of seed catalogs beside the woodstove in January.

In an emergency we could put oil in the tank and turn on the furnace.

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Robin

Only wood heat here too. There is a propane furnace down there, but I think my husband only turns it on once a year just to see if it still works. I guess we can all count ourselves as hearty souls who know what it's like to wake up in a REALLY cold house once in awhile!

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All wood here. We have an oil furnace but are trying to go all wood. Last year we ran out and resorted to oil. This year we have twice as much wood so it shouldn't be a problem. Haven't turned on the oil furnace, not even when was just a bit chilly, but too warm still for a roaring fire....we burned scraps from the sawmill and small ends of wood. It was just right. We've got the wood furnace going in the cellar now. I got up this morning and the house was still 73 degrees with only coals in the furnace, but it's only about 30 degrees outside. Not too cold yet. When gas and oil went up we said "that's it!" We live on one income, pay half our health insurance (which is going up 20% after the first of the year) have a daughter in college, plus have 4 vehicles on the insurance with 2 teenage drivers. We can't afford oil!

Only wood heat here as well- one VC Resolute Acclaim does the job in the cabin. I do have a small electric radiator type heater in the grain room, which also houses the well stuff, and my water hose for the horses. We do break down and turn on the HWBB if we're going somewhere and someone else is watching the farm.

Stacy

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When I was home on leave last time last NOV a year ago for a week I had another two year supply of cut to size seasoned hardwood delivered from a local mill for just $300 It was a huge dump truck load I would guess 5-8 cords maybe Not sure but sure beats cutting it myself LOL if it was not so cheap I would cut it but I would rather work in the garden or watch the animals and play with the kids, I can find plenty to do on the stead with out chopping wood.

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I am not by any means lazy I just like to do things the easy way LOL
See I could spend days chopping the wood and the expense of maintaining the equipment and if I had to I would but at $300 for a two year supply it's a no brainer for me, Shoot I could spend 3 or 4 days working for someone and make $300 or I could spend a week cutting it all and the expense so I buy for now, when it is $500 a load I will cut it myself.

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We heated exclusively with wood in the main part of the house last year. The children's bedroom wing has a central unit, and I installed a new central heat and air in the main part this spring. I haven't used the central for heat so far, and don't intend to at all this winter. Plans are to use wood exclusively again in that part of the house.

Wood most of the time . Oil when somebody gets sick or we are out of town.

veme

100% wood. My furnace broke and nat gas is too expensive...

Been heating 100% wood for more than 9 years...

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We have a Hearthstone Bennington for our upstairs and a Century insert for the downstairs. Our house is large so the back bedrooms will use the baseboard heat when it's good and cold.

All wood since about 6 years ago when we put the wood cookstove in.

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We have used only firewood for heat for twenty years now. We have no other furnace or heating method. We don't have a dryer either. We use the wood heat to dry clothes, cook and heat water too.

My parents only had wood at home too, so I have never lived in a home with any other heating method in my life!

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Only wood here. I harvest all my own wood, too - so heating costs are next to nothing. The wood stove is also our clothes dryer and occasional meal-cooker. Some day wood will heat my hot water, too. But for now, that's a combination of solar and (ick) oil.

-rj

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Just wood here, too. We do have an old, rattly propane furnace in this house, but haven't used it in three years or so. My only concern with pulling out the furnace would be if we were to sell, and I don't think anyone could get a loan on a house with nothing for heat but the woodstove! It does a good job of heating this place, tho. Now, if we could find one for the basement...we'd be set!

Jan in Co

Wood heating here also. We have a combination wood/oil furnace in the basement & a wood stove upstairs (bungalow). We rarely use oil part. We have our own woodlot & DH cuts etc. all of our wood including wood for our barn stove that he uses to cook our maple syrup on. It keeps him out of mischief. LOL.

We do. We have a wood cookstove in the kitchen and for days that get in the single didgits or below we have a small wood stove in the livingroom. We use a cieling fan to circulate the air. When it gets really cold about 20 below or more without the windchill(I don't like those days very much at all) or we are going to be gone for more than half the day we have a wood pellet stove in the basement.

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