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Bus Discussion => Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) => Topic started by: Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM on October 24, 2024, 07:39:01 AM
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The house I grew up in in NH, had six fireplaces. My dad also grew up in that same house and back then, they heated the whole house with fireplaces. They burned a lot of wood, and everyone knows that fireplaces are not very efficient.
The main fireplace in the living room was 7' wide, and we could burn logs so large that it took two of us to roll them onto the fire. The other five fireplaces were smaller. When I was growing up, we also heated the house with wood, and when I was younger, I used to think my name was "Get Wood." 🙂
At my second job, I worked in a machinery factory, and I built two wood stoves, one for the giant fireplace in the dining room and one for the fireplace in the apartment on the end where my grandmother lived. We put one of the stoves in the main fireplace, and it heated most of the house.
It was an old house built in 1781, so it had registers in the floor of the second-story rooms so the heat could rise up into the upper rooms. So the one stove in the main fireplace in the dining room heated most of the house just fine.
The photo below shows one of the two stoves I built. This was the one in my grandmother's apartment. It heated her downstairs and upstairs very well.
These stoves would burn throughout the night and still have hot coals in them in the morning, so throwing a couple of logs on the fire would ignite in just a few minutes.
This was about 40 years ago, and wood stoves have come a long way since then. Unforgettable Fire designed a much more efficient wood stove to heat converted buses, tiny homes, container homes, and cabins. These stoves are significantly more efficient than the stove I built, as they heat better and probably use about half of the firewood in a season.
We never recommend heating your bus with a wood stove when it is in motion, as a simple accident could cause a fire. Even though the Unforgettable Fire's wood stoves are designed to be bolted to the floor, in the event of a rollover, you can imagine the problems hot embers could cause. So, if you do install any wood stove in a bus conversion, which is excellent for a permanently parked bus, always be sure the fire is dead out before moving the bus.
Click on the link below to learn more about Unforgettable Fire's wood stoves and if you have trees on the land you park your bus, tiny house, container home, or cabin on, one of these would work great for you.
https://www.unforgettablefirellc.com/