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[Pinehouse4]

Heated my house for 20 years with wood stoves and when you are sitting beside them they are comforting indeed. However having the mess and fire risk 150 feet away from house and family is more comforting. Still have the stoves/fireplace and like to burn some white birch at Christmas and Thanksgiving for the wonderful smell.

Bob

[aries9245]

I light mine on weekends for the look and smell then I remember what a PITA it was lol...

[Log hog]

I heated my house for years with a fireplace and wood furnace in the basement.  I now split poplar and bass wood cuz with the OWF I don't need the heat just the flames.  I like to sit by the fire when it's snowing out or cold just for the feel.  Don't miss the mess at all though 

[rt014]

With my drafty house on a sub zero day I sometimes light a fire indoors in the old Vermont Stove to get the temperature up faster, but do like my OWB.  I like having the indoor stove as a backup if both the power were out and my generator wasn't running.

[netwerx-r-us]

60 miles west of Nashville and it hasn't been above freezing in days , last 2 nights we had 0 degrees wed night, and 8 degrees Thursday night , I find myself standing in front of it to get the warmth , However got to be careful when i have a good fire with blue flames and I open the door ive singed my hair a few times

But no I don't miss an inside stove at all , never again 

[BoilerHouse]

No personal experience with an inside wood stove, however, I was at a friends place and he had his stove on. It was warm enough in the living room that we had to open a  window.  A bit drafty but somewhat comfortable.  Then into the kitchen we went.  It was freakin freezing.  I thought about my OWB, connected to forced air complete with thermostat. Mine might be a bit harder on wood, but otherwise no comparison.

[willieG]

I had an indoor wood/oil combination furnace NEVER AGAIN
I have a fireplace insert...filled the chimney with insulation and put a water to air exchanger and a fan inside it for a little wxtra heat in the basement when the grand kids are over...never worry about one of them touching the fireplace glass and burning themselves, sleep good knowing if they stay over and are sleeping down there, they ain't gonna  burn up from a fire caused by the fireplace. NO fires in the house again!

NO, I don't miss an inside fire

[dirtdigger]

Nope, don't miss the mess at all.   

[U.P. Doug]

My house had a U.S. Stove add on furnace in it when I bought it. They had one of the 8" ducts blowing in the basement and one going to its own register by my dining room. Worked good, but bedrooms did not get much heat, not to mention the pain hauling the wood downstairs and then the ashes up. I love my set up now and would never go back.

[mlappin]

I had an indoor wood/oil combination furnace NEVER AGAIN
I have a fireplace insert...filled the chimney with insulation and put a water to air exchanger and a fan inside it for a little wxtra heat in the basement when the grand kids are over...never worry about one of them touching the fireplace glass and burning themselves, sleep good knowing if they stay over and are sleeping down there, they ain't gonna  burn up from a fire caused by the fireplace. NO fires in the house again!

NO, I don't miss an inside fire