wood burning stoves

"Yes, a lot of people just don't have a realistic choice, and I have no complaint with them. It's the fancy ass spec houses that just have to have that wood fireplace for ornament that I'm peeved about."

"Just for quantitative completeness of the thread, though, even "EPA certified" whoop de doo stoves emit an enormous amount of PM2.5, the worst stuff. And the chemical composition of wood stove PM2.5 (vs. dust PM2.5) is particularly harmful. If you look at the most current EPA certified list (Nov 2014), you see that efficiencies (I guess heating efficiency) are mostly in the range of 63-72 percent, and emissions are in the range of about 1.5 to 6 GRAMS per hour, probably an average for all certified stoves of about 3 or higher. A whole gram of wood smoke particles is a LOT of particles, and that's every hour, for maybe 6-8 months in Truckee for example, and doesn't even count the giant slug of emissions when you light it or when it's not burning perfectly. That's like 35 pounds of wood smoke particles every year, from the best stoves operating perfectly. No wonder we get smoked out when there's an inversion!

I do like the aesthetics of a nice wood fire, it is beautiful and mystical and very primal. But we're long past time to allow wood burning facilities in any new residential construction, period, except on parcels of a minimum or 20 or 100 acres, where it doesn't affect anyone else so much. If you gotta have flame, go gas. A go play outdoors! You don't need to heat the house much when you're out getting some. "

Before a woodstove may be installed in a mobile home, .......... Third, a hard ducting system for bringing outside combustion air directly to the stove's air inlet is required.