Who has a real fire here?

[irish_thug]

Haven't spent a cent on home heating in 7 years. Wood burning stove FTW. We keep toying with the idea of trading up to a full wood burning cook stove, but then you lose the ambiance of seeing the fire.

 

[Omegaboy13]

Got quoted for an install on one for a backup heatsource and cooking surface here in Montana. Quote for stove and install was over 8k. We decided against it at the time. Lots of wood stoves in Montana.

 

[preppypyro]

We have a wood stove in our basement for emergency heating, but we have a pretty cool basement and spend lots of time down there with the fire going just for fun as well.

Our main source of heat is electric heat and it's horribly expensive in our cold winters. I really need to look into something different for a primary source.

 

[genecop]

Got quoted for an install on one for a backup heatsource and cooking surface here in Montana. Quote for stove and install was over 8k. We decided against it at the time. Lots of wood stoves in Montana.

If we get a place again one day, this will be in the kitchen..

 

[650lb Sumo]

I got a paraffin heater (I already had a paraffin lantern). I took a picture of it running in a dark room but my camera is not very good so the colour didn't come through true. The light is actually a nice, bright orange.

You just can't beat actual flames for heat, light, ambience etc. A paraffin lantern is generally a bit overkill for indoors so I have candles too.

Stock pic:

 

[liner]

I grew up with a wood burning fireplace, my dad would buy a cord every winter and I had to chop it up and stack it in our garage. I loved it, loved building fires every cold night. In my 20s I owned a house that had one and id buy firewood from this farmer.
I'd pay him $40 and he'd let me fill my car w as much of his seasoned firewood as I could fit in my trunk and seats. Since I moved from that house in 2011, I've only had the fake fireplaces and they suck. The next house i buy i really want a wood burner. I know i can have a firepit outside anywhere but its not the same as having a real fire inside the house.

 

[Arashikage4Life]

I had friends who didn't have central heating growing up but they had two wood stoves -- one in the kitchen and one in the living room. When I would come over, I'd sleep on the couch in the living room and when the wood stove was on, it was the perfect amount of heat. Nice and toasty, not dry and suffocating like central heating can be at times.

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

lol I remember genecop.
wonder why he caught the hammer.
I have a fireplace insert that, when hot, generates enough to heat most of the house
I burn oak mostly and sometimes almond.
*Cali mild winters only had 2-3 fires the entire season

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

One wood stove. Use it often

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

I only have a Weber where I cook meat on charcoal like a real fuckin man

You have a Weber dude? Where'd you find him I want one soooo bad.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

You have a Weber dude? Where'd you find him I want one soooo bad.

Watched that whole thing, damn he's a pants man isn't he

 

[Phlog]

I had a coal fire in my bedroom when I was ill as a child.

Lots of research shows it's terrible for your health, linked with heart attack, stroke, lung disease, cancer, and respiratory issues like asthma. Significant increases, like 45% increase in lung cancer in women etc.

Gas fires or stoves are awful as well.

Now the only way I'd have one is to have it outside with the exhaust pipe running through the house to get the warmth.

I have several air purifiers to remove harmful particles and the result is fantastic, I love the clean air feeling. I purify my water also and can taste the plastic in water if I don't as much of the end delivery pipes in the UK are plastic.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Is this about stoves or fireplaces?