There is something worth considering deciding to heat with corn, the benefit of hot heat for your home. It's what I call
ceiling to floor heat. It is one of many benefits we will discuss in detail. There is also a huge savings on your heat bill, it
is anywhere up to 50-90%! A corn stove is actually an investment with a very healthy return. And is this for real helping
save the planet? You bet, heating with corn not only has benefits for your home and pocketbook but also the
environment. Did you know, corn while growing absorbs more pollutants out of the air than it gives off while burning?
Read on for all the details.
First the hot heat, it is the difference that you get from a constant heat source instead of cycling heat or one that turns
on and off. What determines cycling heat is your thermostat when it's chilled down to whatever setting you have it on,
the furnace is then instructed to turn on. This cycling heat is a problem in that the thermostat is located about 5.5 feet
above the floor and the area below has already chilled way below your thermostat setting while the furnace is off. So
you are always in varying degrees of being chilled before the furnace warms you up. When it shuts off then the chilling
begins. You have this up and down temperature where you are warm and chilled, warm and chilled. And this type of
furnace is really a blast furnace providing way more heat than what is needed to maintain your home. Since it shuts off
it needs to blast for a short while then be able to be off. A study was done and determined that only about 20,000
BTU's is needed to maintain an average home on an average winter day.
What heating with a corn stove offers, is constant heat, or heat that never shuts off. This is more beneficial because
the heat fills every cubic square inch of space. It's called hot heat because it fills the room where the stove is and then
spreads to the next. A room filled with heat can be compared to leaving an air-conditioned house when it's about 80
degree's outside, you are hit from head to toe with heat that is pretty overwhelming. However when it's 40 below, or
maybe just feels like it, that head to toe heat feels nice because it warms you to the bone. With corn stove hot heat
instead of chilled heat you are warmer with less money. One corn stove customer put it this way, "I love my corn stove
because my leather furniture is warm!" In some homes when someone gets up from their spot people shift over to it
because it's a warm spot, that's a chilled heat house. If your house is a chilled heat house and you are not warm
enough you need a corn stove heated house because the whole room is warm, the furniture is warm, and the house is
warmer. It's the hearth type heat that you get from a wood stove but without the mess or work. In my house I help the
heat move from room to room with ceiling fans and that is adequate to heat my whole house.
The savings is great and what a nice thing to have something easy on the pocketbook concerning energy and fuel.
Typically your worst one month's heat bill with gas can buy your winters supply of corn. People have been able to cut
their winter's heat bill in half or greater!