JohnG Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 We are moving in the summer (NC, near Winston-Salem) and one house we like a lot has a water stove. I don’t know anyone personally that has had one so I don’t know much about what it’s like living with one. The house is on 20 acres, mostly wooded, so we should have a decent supply of wood available. I’ll also need to clear some space to build a shop, which will provide fuel or lumber, depending on the tree. The house also has an electric water heater and electric heat pump. Current owners say they only use the water stove during the coldest months of the winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 PM Spanky, he has one and he heats his house and his kiln with the same stove. He's a sawyer, so he always has wood available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 Do you mean a separate boiler away from the house? If so, a lot of people around here have them. We were considering one, but the one thing that kept us from it was the required low stack, so there would sometimes be a lot of smoke down at house level. I thought about ways to get around that, but the to-do list is just too long, as it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnG Posted March 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 Yeah, wood fired furnace away from the house that heats water. Hot water is pumped to the house for domestic hot water and through heating coils for the HVAC. Sounds like they are mostly/only used in more rural areas, partly because of the low stack like you mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 If it's a fair distance towards the NE, away from the house, it shouldn't be too bad. When we do get a wind from the NE, it's usually fairly strong, but most of the time, it's from the SW. Also, it would be important that there are no taller things upwind from it, to make the smoke swirl when it comes back on the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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