EPA Bans Most Wood-Burning Stoves

[Frankn]

We call it shock cooling in distilling . If you don't maintain gradual heat curves in a heat path the whole process is defeated . Same with wood heat . Recover too much heat from your flue and you kill the draft and concentrate solids in the flue pipe (creosote) instead of venting it to the outside atmosphere .

Good point! Escaping heat in the flue maintains the draft and dissipates the creosote. I have seen several chimney fires caused by built up creosote. You should put salt in the fire every so often. This chemically removes creosote. Frank...

 

[Old Bookaroo]

Frankn:

I think a stove can be far more efficient to heat with than a fireplace. I think many fireplaces, in the end, make the house colder and not warmer.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo

 

[dieselram94]

Frankn:

I think a stove can be far more efficient to heat with than a fireplace. I think many fireplaces, in the end, make the house colder and not warmer.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo

So true...

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[squiggy]

Absolutely! !

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[Chadeaux]

Frankn:

I think a stove can be far more efficient to heat with than a fireplace. I think many fireplaces, in the end, make the house colder and not warmer.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo

True.

There's an saying (wording may not be exact, but the idea is correct): "White man builds a big fire and can't get close, so he stays cold. Indian builds small fire, gets close and stays warm."

 

[Frankn]

Frankn:

I think a stove can be far more efficient to heat with than a fireplace. I think many fireplaces, in the end, make the house colder and not warmer.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo

Well, what is the morel here? Keep the fire burning in the winter to heat and leave the damper open in the summer to cool !
Actually I use to work as a mason and built many fireplaces. The best used what were called heat forms. I used the Heatalater brand most of the time. I have even built them with circulating water jackets.
As an average statement, I would say you are correct in assuming that there is a large heat loss up the chimney in a regular fireplace. Ben Franklin had it right when he designed his heater. I have heated with wood/coal cook stoves, ones like Ben,s, and a double barrel type that put out 145K btu's. I am in the process of designing one with a water jacket that I can use to heat water to circulate thru my 2000' of PEX tubing that I put in my slab when I built my home. Frank...