Putting space heater in wood stove
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:23 am
Have a chimney that I'd like to expose in my living room. Right now it is housed behind a drywall partition. The chimney has an exhaust for oil forced air, so I can't put a wood stove on it, but in the future I'd like to when the oil furnace eventually goes (replace my oil with a central heat pump on the duct work). In the meantime, I am thinking about putting a little vintage wood stove place in as a non-functional decoration, fake "attached" to the chimney. Was thinking about putting a small electric heater within it so that it could generate some heat when company were over, etc. (to be clear, I am not thinking that this would be an efficient way of heating my home, just that I might be able to make the stove heat up to sit around). Given the small space within the stove, I figure most space heaters would overheat, even if I bypassed the thermostat. Thinking maybe a small oil space heater might work.
Thoughts? Terrible idea? (The Internet isn't helping.)
Thoughts? Terrible idea? (The Internet isn't helping.)