Wood Stove Blower
A wood heating accessory that is often overlooked is a wood stove blower. Wood stove blowers provide many benefits and can prove to be a good investment in the long term (or often in the short term). Most people don’t know what a wood stove blower is, and don’t understand the value it can bring to a wood stove installation.
Why Consider Installing A Wood Stove Blower
Wood stoves offer cost-effective heat to a home, in addition to their aesthetic qualities. As long as good quality wood is readily available a wood stove can provide warmth, often at a lower cost than using electricity, gas or other costly fuels used in heating homes, especially when using the newer EPA certified models that are more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.
Wood stoves to have limitations, however, compared to central heating units that distribute heat throughout a house using ducts. Though cost-effective, a wood-burning stove radiates heat and has limited ability for spreading that heat evenly throughout a house. This is where a wood stove blower comes in. A wood stove blower can compensate for these limitations by circulating the heat from the stove into other areas of the house.
Blowers can be used to move heat throughout large rooms and can even push warm air into other rooms throughout a house. This can help reduce the cost of heating the house overall.
There are also other alternative when it comes to blowers. There are smaller wood stove blowers and fans that you can position in doorways to facilitate hot air moving through the entire house. Wood stove blowers also are available in sizes and shapes that are designed to fit in existing vents. A wood stove blower in a vent can move warm air to even the hardest to reach areas of the house.
There are also wood stove blowers designed to create a draft up the chimney to blow smoke and soot up and out of the house.
There are some differences in wood stove blowers.
- While some blowers will work with a large variety of wood-burning stoves, others are designed to fit specific models of stoves.
- Some blowers can be easily installed by hooking them onto your stove with a few screws. Other blowers are more complicated and require an experienced installer.
- Some blowers run of batteries while others will require an electrical outlet.
With the right installation a wood stove blower can transform an already cost-effective heating solution into an efficient heat supply for the entire house.
