The $12 Norwegian Stove That Heats a House for 18 Hours on One Log

A Norwegian farmer with fifty-one winters in the same timber house explains why the long overnight burn most wood stove owners were taught is the most expensive habit of the season, what a twelve dollar instrument on the flue pipe reveals about it, and where the hours of warmth in a cold house actually come from. Six things in order, from measured firewood to the one law that ties all of them together. #woodstove #creosote #firewood #homeheating #Gudbrandsdalen