<font color="blue"> hope to have the heat rise up the stairwell into the upper level. Or maybe run the fan on the furnace and suck the heat through the registers. </font color>

Our stove will be located a good distance from the stairwell &amp; we have forced hot water baseboard heat. So we lose twice.

I hope that it will make a dent in the heating bill. Even if it doesn't I'll be using up the wood I'm cutting. Plus there are those intangibles, like how romantic a real wood fire is [img]/forums/images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]