> Places heated with wood stoves are NOT damp or miserable. A vaguely well constructed place with a wood stove doesn't have to be damp and miserable. A sod hut

> Places heated with wood stoves are NOT damp or miserable. A vaguely well constructed place with a wood stove doesn't have to be damp and miserable. A sod hut is going to be. Imagine a tent except it has grass sod for a roof. It's going to be moist all the time. Plenty of ye olden construction and heating methods are perfectly fine even today. A sod hut is not one of them.