Is a BIG Wood Stove Really Necessary for Your Tiny Home?

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  @Snowstead · 1 year ago · pinned

  Pellet Stove OR Wood Stove? What’s your preference? 🤔

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• FA

  @factshortviral · 5 months ago

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• VA

  @vanderpoolfarmsl.l.c.9983 · 9 months ago

  Congratulations!! You are the ONLY YouTuber that understands the extreme importance of drawing inlet air from outside. This is a concept, extremely important unless one likes cold, drafty rooms. Great job!!

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• ST

  @Stu_Bur · 1 year ago (edited)

  My dad built a cabin with a wood stove completely enclosed by dark stone in a pillar in the middle of the living area, away from the walls. The same stone was used for the floor around it. The plan was to use this as a heat mass for the stove as well as from the sun from large south facing windows. It seems to work well. Even after the fire goes out, a significant amount of warmth is noticeable from the stone for several hours. It also feels warm to the touch on cold sunny winter days even without a fire lit. The central position in the living space provides good heat all around it that is moderated by the stone to allow standing close with heat dispersed evenly instead of the intense but concentrated heat of an open stove.

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• OZ

  @ozyrob1 · 1 year ago

  Nothing beats wood for heat. The best thing is you can scrounge about and feed it for free.

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• RI

  @rick419 · 1 year ago

  House seems a lot bigger than I imagined tiny homes.

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• ST

  @stevenclarke5606 · 10 months ago

  You have identified one of your major problems, wet wood, you need to cut the wood in advance, and allow it to dry out, it will then burn much better

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• CO

  @codysaunders7348 · 1 year ago

  Dude, you would flip if you saw how similar our builds are. We did pretty the same thing, our interiors are a bit different layout, great video. Im subscribing

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• BR

  @Bryan46162 · 1 year ago

  You can always install an air dam that is used with regular HVAC.  It's basically a bucket on the end of a large diameter insulated hose that's open to the outside.  Because cold air sinks and outside air is colder than inside air, the cold stays in the bucket and prevents ingress of more exterior air... unless there's a vacuum situation which then causes fresh air to be pulled into the structure through the hose.

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• JO

  @JohnSeaward · 1 year ago

  Growing up as a northern lad, ( stixville, boonies 5 miles from closest town ) we would always pile our wood collection bark side up because it helped shed the water and allowed the wood to dry and also we would gather not this year's wood but next year's wood, we allowed the wood to dry 1 year from cut to burn which helped keep the creasote to minimal manageable levels, ( clean pipes once a year) and we never burned wet of green of the fresh cut wood, and only used minimal pine or soft wood as starter kindling, back then they didn't have insulated pipes like they have now  lol

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• GR

  @GrowingAnswers · 1 year ago

  Put an intake near your dryer intake. Use a flapper that is locked until you dry clothes. Close the door to the washer dryer area when in use.

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• JJ

  @jjpower6769 · 11 months ago

  Our wood stove is fitted with a wrap around boiler. It heats our domestic hot water cylinder. Once the domestic hot water has reached a set temperature, a thermostat switches on a central heating pump which sends the hot water from the boiler to a system of hot water radiators which are fitted around the house. It switches back and forth between heating the domestic hot water, which has priority, and heating the radiators. <br>It is a simple system but it has worked for us for forty years. Also, a shovel or two of coal is enough to keep it ticking over during the night, if it is shut down.

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