Outdoor Furnaces can Dramatically Lower Your Heating Bills

Outdoor Wood Burning Furnaces for Home Heating

If the high cost of heating your home last winter didn’t already prompt you to look for alternative ways to keep your home cozy, the threat of future hikes in fuel prices may have you looking at possible solutions to lowering your heating bill. Yes, at the moment things are looking a little better but we all know now how quickly escalating fuel and energy costs can wreak havoc on our budgets. This possibility has many looking at outdoor furnaces as a solution to shield them from fluctuating fuel prices.

Outdoor wood-burning furnaces are a great idea for many reasons. They keep your home comfortable with the kind of warm, cozy heat that only wood can provide. And by burning wood instead of fuels, you are being friendlier to the environment. Wood is also a renewable resource, whereas fuel is not.

As the demand for fuel grows and the supply dwindles, fuel price hikes like we have experienced over the past year will become commonplace. By heating your home with wood, you can avoid these peaks in heating costs and may be able to do away with your heating bill altogether if you burn wood from your own property.

Outside wood burners are also safer and cleaner than burning wood indoors. There is no smoke, ashes, odors or soot buildup and the chance of catching your home on fire with this type of heat is virtually nonexistent.

The only drawback of the outdoor furnace is that you have to go outside to load the furnace with wood and to perform routine cleaning and maintenance. But the ability of the furnace to burn whole logs instead of split lumber means that you will not have to see to your heating system very often. There will be no running outside in the middle of the night to add more fuel to the fire. And if you are like many, the money that you save will more than make up for this inconvenience.

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