Wood Heat Stoves & Solar

What a beautiful day at the Nevada County Fairgrounds today for the SPRING HOME & GARDEN SHOW! Thousands of people came to enjoy our display of Stoves, Solatubes, Laser Projectors and the fun activities the show had to offer. The fun continues all day Sunday until 4pm. Go to www.theunion.com/homeshow for a complete schedule of events! April 16th & 17th, 2011, Grass Valley, CA Spring Home and Garden Show, April 16th & 17th, 2011, Grass Valley, CA

Join Wood Heat Stoves & Solar at the Fall Home & Harvest Show at Nevada County Fairgrounds October 16th & 17th, 2010, Nevada County Fairgrounds Hours: Saturday 10-6, Sunday 10-5 Admission: Free We will have a full display of Wood, Pellet and Gas Stoves, Inserts and Fireplaces with the gas and pellet stoves in operation for your review along with Solatubes, Solar Attic Fans and our BlissLights Laser Starfield Projectors. Let our Wood Heat - Energy Specialists introduce you to the state of the art in Wood, Gas & Pellet Stoves. Wood Heat Stoves & Solar has sold, installed and...

A customer asked for advice on a wood stove to heat his 1500 Square Foot home and in giving him a response I realized that this is something I have recited over and over for most of the 30 years I have been in business, so it would be a good blog article for all the people choosing a new stove. Here was my reply:I will first mention that heating a 1500 sq. ft. area is often most effectively handled by a stove that is designed to heat 1800 to 2000 sq. ft. if you want to be confident that...

A customer emailed us this question and I realized that this would be a good time to share with everyone the dynamics involved in keeping woodstoves from smoking in the home. "Hi, I am interested in purchasing a wood burning stove for my house. My wife is allergic to smoke and wants a stove that does not emit smoke inside the house and is energy efficient and qualifies for the government tax credit." I responded with this explanation: Almost all stoves manufactured since 1990 meet EPA Phase II clean burning standards, which also boosted efficiency. Almost all of these stoves...

I wondered about cfls when PGE was pushing them so hard for energy savings while we were simultaneously offering LED bulbs for the first time. We stopped at a cfl promo display showing electricity use of incandescent bulbs compared to cfls and they used about 1/3 the power. Then we compared to one of our LED bulbs and ...they first thought the meter was broken because you could barely see it move. No, the electricity consumption was nearly too low for the meter to register it. Then we found that cfls have mercury in them and are hazardous if broken...