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ratchiweenie

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3. We bought a house about three years ago that had a big nice wood stove. The county of Missoula

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Sun Oct 15, 2023, 10:56 AM

Oct 2023

does not allow wood burning any longer so we removed it. What a project as it was very big and very heavy.

Our house is heated with gas and our bills are really high. We noticed all our neighbors are burning their wood stoves so I asked one of them. They told us that our neighborhood was put in in the late 60's and that we are grandfathered in and can burn our wood stoves.

Now we are not sure what to do. We could get a smaller wood stove to supplement our gas or we could get a propane stove since we never removed the chimney from the roof. I love wood stoves and in Montana it would be good to have backup heat in case we loose power. Sigh, another thing to think about and another expense. Having two wood stoves, what a luxury.

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Stacked 2.5 cords of wood and swept the chimney yesterday. [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2023 OP

Do you heat with wood or augment your heat with wood bottomofthehill Oct 2023 #1

I do have an oil furnance. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2023 #2

We bought a house about three years ago that had a big nice wood stove. The county of Missoula ratchiweenie Oct 2023 #3

My parents are older now bottomofthehill Oct 2023 #4