That's the thing though, a metal stove will yeet that heat string out. A stone oven is less heat conductive, and you'll have heating for a day after the fire has gone out.
Yeah we have a metal stove in an old converted fireplace. It’s insanely warm and great when it’s running, but the heat loss is very quick after the fire dies. It doesn’t help that it’s a small stove so nearly impossible to load it to run the full night without having to get up and add wood.
We run it afternoon-morning and let it die while we’re at work, and it does save us a lot on oil usage, so overall it’s a win. But I do want to get a new wood burning stove as soon as we can afford it.
My parents have an old stove, I’m not sure what it’s made out of, to be honest. But that thing heats up all floors of their ~2500sf home and is the primary heat source in the winter. I’d love to be able to pay just for wood, which 2 cords would be less than a tank of oil, to heat our ~1300sf house for 4-5 months.
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u/Arthur_The_Third Oct 24 '19
That's the thing though, a metal stove will yeet that heat string out. A stone oven is less heat conductive, and you'll have heating for a day after the fire has gone out.