I would like to introduce myself and give a little background.
My wife and I currently live in New Jersey but have decided that we want to move.
We were given the opportunity to move into a nice house with lots of property in Maine so we took that chance.
We started to slowly move our stuff up to the new place last fall and just got back from taking a 26' box truck full of stuff up. We are very excited as we are going from a 1 acre lot to almost 100 acres with pond frontage. Anyway while we were there in the spring I decided to cut up and split a bunch of dead standing trees to fill the woodshed (approx 4 cords). One of my main concerns its the cost of heating fuel so I basically got us set-up to burn wood to reduce the cost of heating the house. While we were there recently it was a little chilly at night so I decided to try out the Stove and Insert that are in the house. The Insert is a Thor Metal Works with a blower unit. The wood stove in the basement is a beautiful Cawley Lemay 600. I fired them both up and tried them out. They both seem very well built and put off a lot of heat.
My questions/ concerns are as follows:
1. Are these going to be sufficient enough to heat the whole house during the winter months?
2. Without ceiling fans, what is the best way to move the warm air throughout the house?
3. Does anybody have experience with either of these units?
4. How much wood can I expect to go through in an average winter?
Advice/ suggestions are appreciated
My wife and I currently live in New Jersey but have decided that we want to move.
We were given the opportunity to move into a nice house with lots of property in Maine so we took that chance.
We started to slowly move our stuff up to the new place last fall and just got back from taking a 26' box truck full of stuff up. We are very excited as we are going from a 1 acre lot to almost 100 acres with pond frontage. Anyway while we were there in the spring I decided to cut up and split a bunch of dead standing trees to fill the woodshed (approx 4 cords). One of my main concerns its the cost of heating fuel so I basically got us set-up to burn wood to reduce the cost of heating the house. While we were there recently it was a little chilly at night so I decided to try out the Stove and Insert that are in the house. The Insert is a Thor Metal Works with a blower unit. The wood stove in the basement is a beautiful Cawley Lemay 600. I fired them both up and tried them out. They both seem very well built and put off a lot of heat.
My questions/ concerns are as follows:
1. Are these going to be sufficient enough to heat the whole house during the winter months?
2. Without ceiling fans, what is the best way to move the warm air throughout the house?
3. Does anybody have experience with either of these units?
4. How much wood can I expect to go through in an average winter?
Advice/ suggestions are appreciated