Hi everyone,
First post so I hope you will forgive me the wall of text
I am working on a new house build and I wanted to get some advice on wood burning stove. To start, and y'all may make fun of me for this, but we live in North Texas. The primary function of the house will be a vacation home. This property will also function as a family getaway in the event of another covid type event. Additionally, on my mind, is the 2020 winter snow storm where we lost power for a week. My kids are a little older now so it probably wouldn't be as bad, but it would be nice to have a place that I could keep heated with just firewood and keep everyone comfortable. I intend on keeping about two or three chords of wood on the property under a covered wood shed and rotate about a chord per year by using some up in a pizza oven or a in a firepit outdoors.
With that in mind, I have two questions.
1st question:
one stove or two? If you look at the attached image, you can see that the main living space is going to be a large and open space, almost 26x30 with what will likely be pretty tall selling. This space will get the primary stove in the location i identified using red. Second location that I would like to be able to keep warm is the master bedroom which I identified in green. I was going to put a smaller stove like the dwarf 4kw or 5kw.
Do I actually need the second stove in the bedroom or will the primary stove keep both of those rooms warm doing a full burn? Would it be better to do two stoves small in the bedroom and not as big in the main living space?
2nd question
I need some sizing recommendations. What would you recommend size wise given the dimensions for each area? Wood burning fireplaces are an option too but I would like to be able to run them for heat with no power available and I know most of them require blower fans to run to really heat the space.
As always, thank you for your time!
V
First post so I hope you will forgive me the wall of text
I am working on a new house build and I wanted to get some advice on wood burning stove. To start, and y'all may make fun of me for this, but we live in North Texas. The primary function of the house will be a vacation home. This property will also function as a family getaway in the event of another covid type event. Additionally, on my mind, is the 2020 winter snow storm where we lost power for a week. My kids are a little older now so it probably wouldn't be as bad, but it would be nice to have a place that I could keep heated with just firewood and keep everyone comfortable. I intend on keeping about two or three chords of wood on the property under a covered wood shed and rotate about a chord per year by using some up in a pizza oven or a in a firepit outdoors.
With that in mind, I have two questions.
1st question:
one stove or two? If you look at the attached image, you can see that the main living space is going to be a large and open space, almost 26x30 with what will likely be pretty tall selling. This space will get the primary stove in the location i identified using red. Second location that I would like to be able to keep warm is the master bedroom which I identified in green. I was going to put a smaller stove like the dwarf 4kw or 5kw.
Do I actually need the second stove in the bedroom or will the primary stove keep both of those rooms warm doing a full burn? Would it be better to do two stoves small in the bedroom and not as big in the main living space?
2nd question
I need some sizing recommendations. What would you recommend size wise given the dimensions for each area? Wood burning fireplaces are an option too but I would like to be able to run them for heat with no power available and I know most of them require blower fans to run to really heat the space.
As always, thank you for your time!
V
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