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If you have a source of radiant heat close to you, be it a fire or an electric log, you can keep the room temperature lower. Best of both worlds. The problem
by wrycoder 4y ago
If you have a source of radiant heat close to you, be it a fire or an electric log, you can keep the room temperature lower. Best of both worlds.
The problem with wood fires is they require a ducted external air source, or the chimney will exhaust your expensive heated air.
- teruakohatu 4y agoMost cities here require low or ultra low emission burners, which burn at high temperature, so often the temperature is kept low. And you are absolutely correct about venting heat. I have not to my knowledge seen a home here with an externally ducted air source. So the room is heated, and heat (warm air) is sucked out of the rest of the house. Wood is cheap here, and so people often believe it is more efficient jot counting the inefficiencies of wood.
- wrycoder 4y agoI get about half my heat from burning wood. But, my century-old house is so leaky that I would need a very large cold air duct to make a difference.