McCulloch610
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We've been heating our entire house evenly for nearly eight years with this:
Its an Englander 28-3500 add-on furnace. The silver duct you see exiting the top feeds into my existing furnace plenum. The wood furnace has it's own blower and filter box which draws air from the basement, blows it around the firebox, and into the furnace plenum where it gets distributed evenly to every room in the house. I also can turn my main furnace blower on to help it. Regular wood stoves are space heaters and while they can generate a lot of heat, it tends to stay in one room, especially if you don't have a very open layout. As far as I'm concerned, central wood heating is the way to go. We burn 4-5 cords of wood a year and merely use our oil heat to take the edge off during the early fall/early spring. Last year I only burned 50 gallons of oil.
Its an Englander 28-3500 add-on furnace. The silver duct you see exiting the top feeds into my existing furnace plenum. The wood furnace has it's own blower and filter box which draws air from the basement, blows it around the firebox, and into the furnace plenum where it gets distributed evenly to every room in the house. I also can turn my main furnace blower on to help it. Regular wood stoves are space heaters and while they can generate a lot of heat, it tends to stay in one room, especially if you don't have a very open layout. As far as I'm concerned, central wood heating is the way to go. We burn 4-5 cords of wood a year and merely use our oil heat to take the edge off during the early fall/early spring. Last year I only burned 50 gallons of oil.