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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jackinok09" data-source="post: 3939357" data-attributes="member: 51322"><p>Been more than a few years ago, and I honestly haven't kept up with prices per btu but some years ago I did a study on the cost of heating for a solar heater we were installing. At that time to be perfectly honest the costs were almost identical between all the heating mediums (per btu) including wood if you were buying fuel. Solar did save money and the really primative units we had would blow like 50 degrees on the coldest sunny days making backup of course necessary. The problem at that time with wood was as some have said here was the need for external fans etc to move heat would lessen the savings. The be honest unless you build your home from the start with an open type floor plan with rooms opening directly off a main or central heated area you'll need to move heat. Remember those old farmhouses you used to see where all the bedrooms faced the living room? Just something to think of.  Now as I've said that was some time ago, and the efficiencies have gone up substantially. But really if your planning to use a wood heater for both heating and cooking year round you may want to consider two separate systems. Nearly all the really old homes and farms built years ago had a separate cook house to keep heat down in summer. Look around at all the old places maintained for viewing these days and you'll find either a separate cooking area or two areas to move outside the house in summer. Now all that rambling aside my concern would be more for the growing laws against burning fuels of this type in future. Just this week the fools passed legislation against even filling ditches on your own place, so you know it's only a matter of time before your woke neighbors smell smoke and scream your polluting the entire world.lol</p></blockquote><p></p>

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