#asknostr Wood stoves

Hello friends! I’m looking for any insights about wood stoves that you might have. We’re looking for one for a small space, primarily for heat although 2 cooking burners on top would be great. I’ve put more about the building below. If you use a wood stove: any favorite (or not) brands? Anything you wish you had known or considered when you first bought yours?

^As of December. It's 16 x 24. Concrete pad, brick stem walls, above which we'll build a lumber frame which will be filled (about 9 inches deep) with straw and mud, so no thermal mass but excellent insulation. It's on a part of our land which now has electric access, but we'll be heating with wood and probably expanding our current solar set-up for most of our other energy needs. Eventually we’ll build a larger cob house (hopefully with a rocket mass heater!), but this shed will be multipurpose for the next few years. One large space, likely with a sleeping loft.

Wood that we burn: primarily ash, birch, poplar. We have lots of little black locusts that eventually we’ll use for firewood as well as a ton of pine, which I know isn't ideal but is sometimes in the burn pile.

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