Would you use your stove after Cleaning?

My stove is in my finished basement, we spend a fair amount of time down there.I just did my summer cleaning on my stove.
I took apart every piece of pipe and everything on the stove I could reasonably clean. The thing is cleaner than new.
The problem is it is normally cool down there and when we get some cold weather it is down right chilly .
What would you do, put a bag in and dirty up the stove or maybe get some kind of electric heater for the handful of days
I would need it in the summer?

I would go ahead and use it. That's what it's there for-heat.

Hello MCweld

I have my stove in the Basement also. So I made a 900 Watt 220 Volt Heated Hearth that puts out 200 Degree Heat to warm the basement!
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