How many of you DO NOT need electricity to run youre stove?

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awoodman

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Dec 4, 2008
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K.C. Missouri
Their is nothing like being warm when the power goes out.
The ultimate setup no electricity needed, a straight flue pipe (centraly located inside the house) and thermal mass to retain the heat.
 

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Nice looking setup. Is that an old 2 sided firplace? I don't have a central location but since the house is small and stove is close to basement stairwell I get good heat circulation without a fan, but I also have a small fan turned on to help even out the heat at times.
 
I don't need anything electric to heat my house and I enjoy how quiet the stove is.
 
We have the blower kit on our stove, but the only time we use it is if the house has cooled down quite a bit. Turn the blower on to speed up the warm-up if SWMBO says it's too cool.
 
Todd said:
Nice looking setup. Is that an old 2 sided firplace? .

No it is a concrete block surround I built to surround the stove. On the other side is a mantel to give that appearance.

The stove is in the 30X60 poll- barn style room add. I put on yrs ago (which is 1/2 garage.) The old part of the house I used 8'' thick foam block, and on the room add. part I used 10'' thick foam block.
Pretty simple to lay horizontal 3/4'' ply. strips over the foam and using long screws go through the ply and foam and into the existing wall. Then just screw the sheet rock to the plywood strips. Or secure wire mesh over the plywood strips and stucco over that.....
 
I had fans on my last 2 stoves. On the insert I had to have a fan, but I saw no use for a fan on the free standing stove. I like the quietness.
 
Don't need or never use electricity? Big difference. My stove puts out a lot of heat using just convection but I get more even heat throughout the house with the central heat blower option. Half of the time the blower is on, it's on low and much of the time it's off. We stay warm when the power is out. Agree though that there's nothing like silent heat.
 
Here's to silent heat :)
 
This is the exact reason I chose to install a nice cast iron free standing stove in the hearth instead of using an insert. It heats just fine all by itself via radiation and natural convection. I have since added a blower to help move heat out of the old fireplace and it does its job remarkably well, but it is by no means necessary. So I am a big fan of the free standing silent stove w/ a blower - best of both worlds. No power required to heat the whole house.
 

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Same as most here, don't "need" electricity but the bedrooms & bathroom don't get warm without the box fan in the hallway. My stove isn't silent though, lots of creaking cast iron + boiling water :D
 
Don't need any electric here!

I get so much heat out of this thing WITHOUT a blower, I can't even imagine trying to run it WITH a blower!!

-SF
 
No electricity required here. Same as awoodman's - centrally located stove and 15 ft of straight flue/chimney. A hallway box fan or 12vdc computer fans spread heat a little more towards back BRs, but not required. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.
 
That is one of main reasons i chose a wood stove, seems like once a year were i live, we have a big ice storm which results in a power outage, and most people around here don't have no other kind of heat source other than electric or gas so i try to look ahead and got me a wood burner.
 
There is nothing to plug in on our stove but we do use a fan. If the power goes out, we just don't use the fan and still get along just fine. The bedrooms might be cooler but that is no problem because my wife and I figured out long ago how to stay warm in bed.
 
We do not have a fan mainly because we are off the grid. Thats why I tell others check if you need a fan before spending the money. I am sure our T6 would put out even more with a fan but its best to size a stove without relying on one. Merry Christmas.
 
I don't have a stove blower, but we use our ceiling fans to distribute heat through the house. I've never operated
the stove without the ceiling fans going, so not really sure whether things would heat as well. Power outages are
rare where I am.
 
No electricity required here. It's nice not having to rely on electricity to keep the house warm.

Being cold is a drag. Being cold in the dark is even less fun. Two Aladdin oil lamps keep us illuminated when the juice goes out.
 
My Regency has a blower, I just leave it on auto/low. It comes on at around 450* and is barely audible.
I expect the stove would heat nearly as well without the blower.
So a power failure would not be a bid deal.
 
In the past I have used the stove blower 24/7

With all the improvements (insulation in walls, ceiling,new double Paine low e Windows and insulated front door.) I have found that the blower isn't really all that necessary.

When I do run the blower......I have the blower running on a timer. 15minutes on,15 minutes off, 15 minutes on, 15 minutes off (you get the idea)

With the Englander 30 I don't really need to have electric power to stay warm! But it is nice when its -20 °F :)

Once the BK King is online I should be able to melt people if I run both stoves together? ;-)

Merry Christmas one and all.

Hiram
 
No electric here and plenty of soapstone for that thermal mass. Sometimes I love to turn off our fountain so all I hear is the quiet sucking sound of air at the stove :)
 
Below 20, the blower is on but I suppose we could get away without it. Just wouldn't choose to.
 
No blower here!
 
We'd be dead chilly if we relied on electricity for heat. Too many long outages to take that chance.
 
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