REBECCA BURCH wrote:
Well, I don't have any experience heating a stone
castle, but when we lived near Diamond Lake (in the
Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest) we heated
a 3 bedroom house with only one wood fired stove.
Fireplaces are a poor way to heat a room. Most of your heat goes up the
chimney and it takes a tremendous amount of wood to keep a room warm.
Thus, the Franklin stove invented in the 1700's. It sits in the room,
not in the wall, and radiates heat in all directions instead of just
one. Much more efficient than a fireplace, it uses a lot less wood to
heat the same space. It is safer too, as it encloses the flames so you
don't burn your skirts or have toddlers crawling into it.
A lot of cast-off clothing ended up in those stoves over the decades.
Dawn
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