Wood stove / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...wood burning stoves in airtight homes, find more info about wood heat and green building techniques in the Ecohome Green Building Guide and these pages below: Choosing the best wood-burning fireplace inserts or stoves Burning the right firewood for maximum heat output Why gas fireplaces, stoves, furnaces and wate...

...Wood Stoves and Heat Pumps This temporary sealing method is the perfect strategy for homeowners who have upgraded to a high-efficiency heat pump but want to keep their wood stove or fireplace for emergency backup heat. In cold climates or areas prone to power outages, having a non-electric heat source provides resilien...

...wood. I love direct source heat, I love a flickering orange light, but I don’t love the smoky smell that seems to be unavoidable even with airtight stoves. What I really love is the resiliency a wood stove provides in terms of being able to heat my home in a power outage.  I built my home right after the 1998 ice storm...

...wood pellet stove, see here, or to help with choosing a woodburning stove, see here, or even, for help in choosing the right type of firewood, see here. For the Nerds amongst us - there's also a really interesting page here, all about the Combustion process of wood. These Guides for Green Building brought you by the te...

...wood stove be the main heat source or just supplementary? Is your house poorly, moderately or super-insulated?   Since there is no way for a wood stove manufacturer to know how well-insulated or airtight your house is, square footage and BTU output numbers are valuable for finding out where a wood stove falls on the 's...

...wood stoves produce less than un-certified stoves and pellet stoves produce less than EPA-certified wood stoves, they are closer to gas stoves in the emissions they produce. To read more about the wood combustion process and to understand how to burn firewood efficiently, see here. Fine particle emission compari...