Comments on: Little House Stove

By: Moontree Ranch

Moontree Ranch — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:06:39 +0000

I agree with grant on the carbon neutral state of burning wood, we go through 4-5 cord a year here in the high country of colorado. We have an insert in the living room that has a blower, when we have power it can keep most of the house warm, it has a pretty big fire box and can take 6-8 good sized logs at a time. Maintenance is minimal during the winter we run it almost non stop. about once a week or so I clean out the ash, running hot fires now and then keep the creosote down.
we also have a Hearthstone soap stone free standing stove in the bed room, we only use this one now and then, like tonight when it is near zero outside and the wind is blow at 20 mph+ we used to have power failure quite a bit and when we did the remodel this was the main reason for installing this one, now we can have a warm room in the house no matter what.

We just installed a little scandia in our cabin and could not think of a better way to keep warm

By: zurlo25

zurlo25 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:00:28 +0000

OCRB43W – Avanti Convection Oven with 2 Burner Cooktop – White.. you should check out this little oven/stovetop combo.. it is around $100 .. looked at all the coustomer reviews and they were all glowing..

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:07:57 +0000

My Vogelzang wood stove rocks. We us it in 30 X 40 shed --excellent heat. Nice for cooktop & top & front entry for wood too. Provides plenty of heat with good control. We use in Kansas ... plenty of cold winters.

By: April

April — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:49:01 +0000

grrr… bad link format in my above comment
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By: April

April — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:48:23 +0000

We bought a wood cook stove off craigslist for about $200 (see here http://tinyurl.com/yjyw4rk)… it’s definitely not air tight, but we’re going for overall character. The firebox is small, but it burns hot and we have a lot of access to cheap/free wood, so that works for us. We haven’t tried cooking on/in it yet (it has an oven, too), though. My parents recently tried talking us into getting something more efficient, but we like the one we have.

By: Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell

Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:21:46 +0000

Great suggestions, thanks for posting.
I should have put in the dimensions for our wood stove and the make and model, but couldn’t find them. Ours is not a full sized stove and so the wood has to be cut even smaller to fit into the firebox.

By: Brillo

Brillo — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:51:18 +0000

I’ve used a Halibut cook/heating stove (http://www.marinestove.com/halibutinfo.htm) for years in a small cabin. They’re small, built for use on boats/yachts, but I’d imagine they’re perfect for most any small house needing heating or cooking. Burns wood, has a small oven, and a cooktop. They also sell small alcohol burners for the cooktop so you can cook a bit in the summer without having to heat the place up too much.

Totally recommend one for small house folks, especially if your place is off the grid or if you’re anywhere that firewood’s easy to come by.

By: Mud

Mud — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:27:41 +0000

I highly recommend looking into cob rocket fired stoves/benches etc. Safer, easier to cook on, easier to regulate, more complete burn, less wood used. They’re basically the poor man’s DIY version of a masonry heater, which are very popular in the northern Scandinavian countries.

As for traditional stoves, you’ll pay extra for homeowner’s insurance no matter what you do right about a woodstove in your home. For estimating I grew up in a passive solar home in northern MN that used a cord of wood on a cold cold sunny winter. Warmer winters have more cloud cover and we’d use 1.5 cords those winters and upwards. Ironic but true.

By: Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell

Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:35:53 +0000

Thanks for that suggestion, Grant. I appreciate it! Sorry you couldn’t post, but thanks for trying!

By: Kent Griswold

Kent Griswold — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:54:35 +0000

That’s interesting about the gmail posting Grant. I just posted using a gmail address on Kerri’s blog and it appears to have worked. You might want to try again sometime…no problem you posting here however…Kent