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When most people think about wood stoves, they visualize a little house in a country setting with little to no modern conveniences. But the truth is that today, many modern homeowners are turning to wood burning stoves. The models that have been manufactured in recent years are appealing and have a modernized look that will fit in many homes plus the rising price of natural gas, oil and electricity make using a wood stove an appealing option for the budget minded homeowner.

If you are looking to cut costs on your heating bill and thinking that a wood stove is the answer, you are taking a step in the right direction. The installation of a wood stove is easy, you only need to have a large enough and safe location for it in your home and it will need to have a space going outside of the home for the chimney.

Because it is a wood stove, you will be burning wood and you need to have all the safety precautions in place. You need to treat your wood stove like a fireplace where you have the flu that opens and closes to let the smoke out of your house while the appliance is in use. This makes it easier to maintain and will dramatically increase the performance.

A wood stove, serves its purpose by warming up several rooms. It performs best at heating up larger areas if the rooms are on an open type floor plan. The good news about the new wood stoves, are that they are designed in a way that you can actually use some models for cooking as well.

For cost savings on your heating bill alone, wood stoves are a good alternative. Today's homes, mainly the newer ones that are built with sufficient insulation so they will hold the heat from your woodstove quite well and will help to save on the heating bill, if not eliminate it all together.

Depending on how your house is made will determine how fast and efficiently a wood stove will heat it. Most wood stove owners have it situated in a part of the house where everyone spends most of their time. If the home has an open floor plan, it's great to put the stove in the middle and let the heat spread to other areas to maximize the use of this economical way of heating.

by: Wes Hamilton




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