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About wood stoves
A wood stove is an economical and environmentally friendly
solution to your family’s heating concerns.
Beside providing an attractive and mesmerizing source of
heat for your home, a wood stove is a cost effective, and clean way to
stay warm. Progress in wood stove technology has helped to produce
stoves that are so efficient that very little smoke is produced as a
by-product. Compared to stoves from the 70s and earlier, modern wood
stoves burn much cleaner, leaving a minimal amount of waste ash, as well
as consuming much less firewood. Since modern wood stoves are
constructed to be essentially air tight, wall clearances can often be as
little as six inches.
Wood burning stoves are now constructed from materials as diverse as
soapstone, cast-iron and stainless steel. The sheer amount of choice
available when shopping for a wood burning stove means that the consumer
can be assured of finding just the right stove to compliment their
home’s interior design and décor. The days of the huge pot-bellied cast
iron stove are over, with stoves now available in a wide array of styles
and colors, with complimenting colored stovepipe. You can even find
modern wood burning stoves in a bright red enamel finish!
If your home has been designed with adequate internal airflow, a single
wood stove can often be relied upon to heat your entire house. You can
also consider a wood stove to be a convenient way to heat rooms that see
the most use in your home. This means that you can choose to not heat
certain areas of your home, while keeping other areas nice and toasty.
This means lest waste and less money spent on heating. With little
experience, even new stove owners can use their new appliances to
provide efficient and flexible heat to their home.
Stoves manufactured and sold after July 1st, 1992 are required to meet
stringent air quality standards developed by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. These standards were designed to protect communities
from excessive wood smoke during the winter months. During the 70s and
80s, wood stoves produced, on average, 42 grams of wood smoke per hour,
while current wood stove technology has dropped that level to
approximately 7.5 grams of wood smoke per hour. When shopping for a new
wood burning stove, make sure the model you are looking at has a label
on the back from the Environmental Protection Agency.
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