Do you heat with wood?

We used charcoal before, and when I was young we used wood for cooking. It saves energy since we do not used electricity but it gives a lot of heat inside our house, so mostly the heating of woods are done outside. You need to put gas on it so that it will burn easily. Our other heat source is electric stove. That is only we have now. I know many people in my country is still doing it, mostly those who have no electricity and living in remote areas.

I leave in a tropical country and there is no need for us to use a heater. However in our case, its the opposite. I spend more money on cooling. Most especially at this time when its summer here, it is very hot and usually I always use the airconditioner which usually eats up much of our electric bill. But well, I really do not mind for as long as I and my family can sleep well at night.

I've always heated with wood up until the past 10 years. The only reason I quit was because I no longer have the energy to chop and all that lol. I really miss my wood heat! There is nothing like it, it keeps a house far warmer than using any other type of heat. Airtights are the only way to go, in my book anyways. Heats better, and also seemed to use less fuel to keep it at a constant temp. Now I only have the fuel oil, and one of those non-tippable kero heaters (the kero is just a supplement for when the power goes out in the middle of wintertime.) My oil bill is like your electric, and if I didn't close off some of the rooms I don't normally use, it'd be over 1000/month (big old farmhouse here.) Gosh, I miss the wood, and keeping a big pot of stew, or something, cooking on top! Is this your first woodstove ever? If it is, may I suggest getting one of those Chimflex? (I think that's the right name.) It looks like a road flare, and if there is ever a chimney fire, you light the end, throw it in, and it extinguishes the fire. I always kept one of those on hand for 'just in case'. Enjoy that wood heat!!

Luckily we don't need heater in my house. We are in a tropical country. But I remembered visiting my grandmother when I was small where she refused to use gas stove for cooking. She liked to use firewood to do her cooking as she claimed that the food cooked with woods has a special kind of aroma.

I lived in a house with a wood stove for a while and LOVED it. Even loved the smell...lol, ther's just somehting about the smell of wood smoke on a cold winter day. Your in even better shape if you have a chunk of land that you can harvest wood from for it.

In a few of the homes that I lived in growing up, we had a wood furnace. I can remember my parents waking at insane hours to go shove wood inside of that thing. I've always had asthma, but in my adult years, I've developed other health conditions and I cannot be inside structures that are heated with wood. This does some very horrible things to my lungs. $900 for even electric heat is very very high. Unusually high.