First I want to say thank you to everyone's contributions to this forum. It has a been a help to come here and look at opinions and information as we are getting started on this new path for heating our home.
Here is a little information on our situation. We live in a 2500 sq home built in 1989. It has a few drafty areas that we are slowly working on. We live in southwest washington and do not get bitter cold temperatures. Maybe 3 weeks a winter we are at or below freezing. I do not believe in the 4 years in this home we have seen below the teens. We have decided to go with the Hearthstone Mansfield freestanding wood stove in our already built alcove.
This week we are going to purchase but wondered if there is anything that newbies wouldn't know to ask about that they should be asking.
One item that was mentioned is that we would need to do something with outdoor air combustion. What I understand (which is not much at all) is that we will need to put hole through our alcove to the outside. Could anyone better explain what this is all about... how it would be accomplished?
Thanks for advising newbies, we are looking forward to heating with wood the remainder of the winter.
Here is a little information on our situation. We live in a 2500 sq home built in 1989. It has a few drafty areas that we are slowly working on. We live in southwest washington and do not get bitter cold temperatures. Maybe 3 weeks a winter we are at or below freezing. I do not believe in the 4 years in this home we have seen below the teens. We have decided to go with the Hearthstone Mansfield freestanding wood stove in our already built alcove.
This week we are going to purchase but wondered if there is anything that newbies wouldn't know to ask about that they should be asking.
One item that was mentioned is that we would need to do something with outdoor air combustion. What I understand (which is not much at all) is that we will need to put hole through our alcove to the outside. Could anyone better explain what this is all about... how it would be accomplished?
Thanks for advising newbies, we are looking forward to heating with wood the remainder of the winter.