thinking about a wood stove

[ProfessorM]

Free wood helps too.

[Karl F]

All Good Advice.. Look at the gas, and the wood inserts, best to use your existing chimney if you can. Expensive to run a new one, SS is way up now.
Buying wood, not too cost effective.. I get mine for free, brother in law in tree business.. (just scored more today, from another source, happens a lot, once you put the word out)
Love it tho.. heat from a wood stove goes right to the bone, laugh at my wife, when we stay at her mom's house, she says "it's cold".. then a little later, "it's hot".. I try to explain how a furnace cycles.. wood heat.. constant.

My house is tight, ( fairly small too, 28X30, 3/4 cape, with a shed dormer) so I rarely use more than 3 cords per winter, and, I have a small stove in my shop in the cellar, that gets used the days I'm down there. I built the house in 1983 with the idea of wood heat.
2X6 walls 16 inch center, R19 walls, R30 attic, Anderson HP windows.

A lot to factor for you, cost effective would be #1.

[tattoobob]

Ya free wood was always great, also having a pick up truck was good to when towns cut trees back from the road.