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A few years back I got a giant steel fireback and grate designed for the fireback for my fireplace. It takes a bit to warm up a 100lb hunk of steel, but once it is warm it made the difference between "fire warm and cozy" and "ooh, I need to move back a bit"

Slate 11mo ago 💬 2

so question

I've been thinking wood stoves are a scam

all the heat goes up the chimney

what do you rhink

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Bill Cypher 11mo ago 💬 1

Far more complicated than that. Chimney design, firebacks, and fireplace vs woodstove all make a big difference.

Simple thought experiment, if that were definitely true of every design our ancestors would have all frozen to death. Heated the ranch house I grew up in with a woodstove as the only heat source for most of my childhood.

Slate 11mo ago

thought experiment failed

woodstoves work, the scam is they use more wood than a fireplAce.

you're not logicing well byeeee

Bill Cypher 11mo ago

The opposite is true. A wood stove keeps far more of the heat in the house than a typical north american fireplace design.