A wood stove is a wonderful feature to add in your home, if you know where to have it installed. Your wood stove should be located in the space you wish to heat, yet many stoves end up in the basement even when the goal is to heat the main level. Drolet 60,000 btu epacertified escape fireplace wood insert, metallic black. Escape 1800 wood stove insert trio firebox volume of 2. Aug 02, 2011 there are plenty of additional benefits to owning a wood burning fireplace insert. Here are a few tips for controlling heat output from your wood fireplace or stove.
A kuma wood fireplace insert will instantly provide efficiency, comfort, and warmth to your home. It can be a challenge to use your fireplace during fall and spring months, when all thats needed is to take the chill out of the air. Here are a number of articles for help in troubleshooting smoking wood stoves. Controlling the heat output of your wood burning fireplace. Pellet, gas and wood stove owner and technical manualswelcome to the owners and technical manuals. A member of our newgeneration, noncatalytic family of wood stoves, it is very efficient.
Frequent questions about woodburning appliances burn wise. Nanaimo recycling exchange staff or rdn landfill or transfer station staff. Get a list of more efficient epacertified wood stoves. This unit produces almost twice the heat of a noncertified. Stainless steel secondary combustion tubes and a heavyduty vermiculite baffle provides a clean burn and results in epa certification. Are you using a wood stove to supplement your heating needs. Stainless steel liner and venting components included. We moved into a cute little bungalow with 6 peaceful acres surrounding us. Another way to control the amount of heat produced by a fire is in the way the firewood is loaded. Pellet stoves are typically among the cleanest woodburning heating appliances. Wood burning inserts for your fireplace highs chimney.
Over 3million canadian households burn wood to heat their homes and to. Use softwood to start fire and get glowing coal bed and start adding hardwood. The wood insert like all other inserts has an extra steel jacket that covers about 23 of its firebox on the sides and all of its back. Gas burning fireplace inserts offer convienance fire at a press of a button often controlled by a remote, available with blowers and heating areas of.
They are great for those individuals that really like using their fireplace but at the same time they do not like the costs associated with the maintenance and up keep of the fireplace. Environmental protection agency limits wood stove and fireplace insert emissions to 7. If you need to heat a home of 1,6002600 square feet, then look no further than kuma wood stove inserts. Can a fireplace insert be used as a stand alone wood stove. In the case of wood burning fireplace inserts, more efficient heat means cleaner heat. The princess insert is a high efficiency wood fireplace insert, 86% lhv efficiency, 80% hhv, and will burn up to less wood to heat your home thus lowering your heating costs. Doesnt it do the same thing when it is not running. Perhaps the next biggest benefit is that i no longer have to listen to the insert fan running 247. These factory manuals can help troubleshoot, operate and find correct replacement parts for your pellet, gas or wood stove, insert or fireplace. The built in thermostat allows you to regulate the heat output at a constant rate even during a power outage. Your best bet when it comes to selecting a size is to talk to a local professional. With a wood stove, youre not limited to a certain size.
A so called airtight nonepa certified fireplace insert or tubetype heat. The woodstove exchange program is designed to encourage residents of. Homeowners guide to wood heating efficiency nova scotia. Take a before photo of your current woodstove, insert, or fireplace to submit with your. Most wood burning inserts also include a fan to circulate the warm air around the firebox back into the room for even more efficiency. A wellfitted fireplace insert can function nearly as efficiently as a wood stove. There are ways however to prevent this heat loss and increase the amount of warmth that your fireplace creates for your. The pellet fuels institute launched the pfi standards program, a thirdparty accreditation. But what about burning wood in the spring and summer when the weather is mild. Because of the enclosed design, an insert increases the efficiency of burning wood, helping you extract the most heat for the least cost. Wood and pellet heating department of energy energy. Operating your insert without the blower will not damage the unit. Convert your costly inefficient masonry fireplace with the 70. A blazing fire can be perfect, as long as the weather isnt too mild.
Wood heat offers wood pellet, wood, gas, and coal fireplace inserts from top manufacturers. Place one of the magnetic thermometers on the metal flue of the wood stove. The air quality improvement program aqip is offering a reimbursement. Use more wood, preferably hardwoods, and build a larger fire when its cold outside and you want your fireplace or wood stove to produce more heat. We have a large selection of the top brands, with many burning displays, backed by factory authorized installation and service. However, very few of us put much thought into whether or not we are using it properly. Consider switching to a more efficient gas or wood pellet stove or buy a new epacertified wood stove that is 50 percent more efficient than older models.
Fireplace inserts can turn your old drafty masonry fireplace into a modern efficent heater. Using a highefficiency stove, using dry wood, keeping the fire hot, and not starving the fire. Come see why we earn the regions top sales awards year after year. Stay warm, reduce energy costs, and have peace of mind that you are. This causes poor heat distribution, excessive wood use and greater heat loss out of the basement, especially if it is poorly insulated. Unless the stove has a backup power supply, the loss of electric power. Napoleon wood fireplace inserts are considered the workhorses in the industry, performing dependably year after year, giving you the energy efficiency you need to heat your home. I have a timerberline wood burning fireplace insert that is in need of a little tlc and this thread has been very helpful.
Using a wood fireplace to heat your home is a great way to keep your utility bills down. Wood stove exchange program fraser valley regional district. Unless the stove has a backup power supply, the loss of electric power results in no heat. I can say that since i set the big jotul wood stove out on the hearth extension in front of the fireplace we are getting much more heat with less wood being burned. Wood inserts epa certified high efficiency wood burning. There are some effective techniques that can be used to control the amount of heat produced by a fire. Green wood can have a moisture content between 30 and 60 percent. This serves to accumulate the heat radiated by the firebox. Jul 14, 2011 if you are looking for advice on where to place a wood stove in your house, i have a story i want you to read first. Le wood stove inserts and fireplace inserts by kuma stoves.
The disadvantage is that you will not benefit from the heat circulation around the inserts jacket. Every winter, thousands of pennsylvanians keep their homes warm using renewable, affordable, locally produced wood heat. The current epa regulations, phase iii, require that all new stoves produce less than 4. Tips for controlling heat output in your fireplace. With a full line of epa certified wood inserts that adhere to the strictest clean air and emissions standards you can feel good about choosing a highefficiency and cleanburning wood insert. Size is important because a small stove or insert might heat just one room, while a large stove or insert is capable of heating the entire home. The basic advice is that whenever you start a wood stove fire, you should leave the damper fully open for 30 minutes to get the fire off to a good start and properly heat the chimney for efficient drafting. Century heating highefficiency wood stove fireplace insert. This will give an accurate reading of the exit temperature of the flue gases. With regency wood fireplace inserts you utilize more of the available heat, burn less wood, and enjoy the warmth and beauty of a real wood burning fire. Attach the magnetic base of the second thermometer on either the top of the stove or on the top third of. A wood burning insert is the most powerful of the three insert types.
There are many factors that affect the answer to this question, including. Escape 1800 wood stove insert trio costco wholesale. Additionally, replacing your fireplace with a woodstove insert saves precious floor space a traditional wood stove would require. I understand that a blower is a must when it comes to inserts but there are some that convect better than others wo the fan operating i suppose. Wood stove exchange program owner information province of. The stove uses very little air for combustion so the heat loss is negligible a guy on the linked reference above did the math and it sounds reasonable to me but the odds of starving the house of air flow is real, i think. Without this feature, the heat radiated by the insert would be lost into. Learn the benefits of a new wood stove in epas brochure, your old wood stoves dirty little secrets. Stove builder international cw2900 century high efficiency wood insert. Whether you own a heat tech free standing wood burning stove or fireplace insert, the result is beauty and efficiency. Fireplace inserts utilize the existing chimney, though a flue liner or other modification may be necessary.
Depending on the make and model you choose, one insert can heat up to 2,200 square feet of space. Looking for an efficient, renewable way to heat your home. Summers heat 1500sq ft wood burning stove insert at. Drolet escape 1800 wood insert trio with liner and large faceplate. As for efficiency, the less smoke that is produced, the more efficient your stove or insert will be. You can find chimney liner parts, stove accessories and thousands of wood, gas and pellet stove parts on our web site at. Which wood burning insert do you think performs the best during power outages. Therefore, if you exchange an old woodstove for electric, gas, propane, or pelletheating. With napoleons vortex advanced wood burning technology, an extraordinary clean burn is achieved. However, keep in mind that the size of a fireplace insert is limited by the size of your fireplace. That in itself was worth the price of the change over, but really we couldnt be happier with how well the stove burns and heats.
The smoke that you see coming out of the chimney is really lost energy. An insert changes your existing fireplace into a highly efficient zone heater, and many have blowers to circulate the heat. A socalled airtight nonepa certified fireplace insert or tubetype heat. All our wood stove inserts offer state of the art technology and styling.
The only thing that will not work in a power failure is the blower. Fireplace insert benefits fireplace insert savings. It has great heat efficiency, fully loaded with 3 larger logs it burns choked for full 7hours. I cant compare the insert to the stove fairly since the insert was an old preepa era insert and probably not very efficient. As with wood stoves, a wood burning stove insert is subject to epa efficiency standards. A wood burning stove insert is a fantastic component to add to your existing fireplace.
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