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Change Out Your Stove
Wood Stove
Changing out your existing stove makes more since than ever. Modern wood stoves are safer, more attractive and easier to operate. New stoves are much more efficient. Older wood stoves had a maximum efficiency of around 30% while modern wood stoves can approach 80%. That not only translates into lower fuel costs, but lower emissions as well.
See What the EPA Has To Say About It
Pellet Stove
Today's pellet stoves are more user friendly than ever. Automatic start, thermostatic control, even self cleaning firepots. Multi-fuel stoves are making us ready for the future, with the uncertainty of fossil fuels, we may be looking at more alternatives.
Gas Stove
Older gas stoves or "B-Vent" stoves are vented in the same way as wood stoves, up a chimney. This leaves the possibility of exhaust backup into the home and with the way we are tightening up our homes in the name of fuel savings, the chance of back up increases.
Modern gas stoves are called direct vent, they bring the combustion air in from the outside and are sealed from the indoor environment. This virtually eliminates the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning. (Every home should have a carbon monoxide detector).
The safety shut down systems on older units don't react as quickly either. If the pilot goes out for whatever reason, they could take up to three minutes to shut of the gas flow, where the modern stove will shut down in less than thirty seconds.