Hurricane Sandy

  

 

Dear Hearthstone:

            I am sending you this email about my interesting experience this week.  My wife and I and our 2 children have lived in West Virginia for about 6 years.  We have never had anything come through here like hurricane Sandy.  The wind was howling, trees were falling down; streets were covered in snow.  It was a horror movie!  We lost power for 2 days and we are all doing much better. As you can see my power is back and we have been recovering. 

            The reason I am sending you this letter is to talk about my Hearthstone stove.  We have owned a Hearthstone wood stove and have owned it for about 3 years.  After we lost power we had flashlights and candles but they did not suffice in our home.  It was still very dark and my children were afraid.  I got the idea to fire up the stove to see if it would do anything.  I did about an hour after losing power.  That's when I used the wood I had stored in the garage, and got the fire going.  Within minutes our whole living room was filled with light.  As the time went by it grew colder and the next day we had snow on the ground!  For two nights I spent with my family in my living room sharing Halloween stories and playing board games, It has been the most amazing 2 days we have had as a family since we've lived here. 

            Your stove kept us comfortably warm for 2 days and provided us with light for the days we did not have power.  I am so grateful for owning a Hearthstone.  It is by far the best purchase I have made as it brought my family closer together during a tragic time.  The kids now prefer turning the lights off and having the stove working.  It might get very hot in my house soon.  I would not give up my Hearthstone for anything and I owe it all to you guys.  You have made a difference in our lives; our Hearthstone is part of the family now!

Thank you Hearthstone and continue providing families like mine with AMAZING products. 

Thank you!


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Manchester Wood Stove

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Zone Heating

ZONE HEATING

A Greener way to Create Warmth in your home!

“Zone heating” puts the heat where you need it, when you need it, adding to your home’s comfort and ambiance but also reducing household fuel consumption, conserving energy, and saving you money while reducing your carbon footprint. Studies indicate that zone heating solutions can provide energy savings of 20-40 percent.

Zone heat delivers the rated efficiency to your living area, not to you basement or back yard.

Adding some living space?  Think about Zone Heating. Zone heating allows you to control the temperature in each part of the home.  A new Gas Stove of insert from HearthStone will cost less to operate.  It’s instant. It’s cleaner-burning.  It’s reliable and trouble-free.

Using supplemental gas hearth appliances to heat only the rooms your family occupies most allows you to turn down the thermostat for the central furnace, decreasing your fuel bill.

When properly burned, gas produces heat, carbon dioxide, and water vapor. It produces almost no sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, dissolved solids, or particulate matter.

Add the ambiance of visual fire while saving some money.  Whether a new addition, renewing a space or replacing old equipment; check out a Zone Heating approach with a reliable decorative gas heater from HearthStone.

Cool the Earth ~ Burn Wood

Cool the Earth ~ Burn Wood

Here is some information about the environmental effects from burning a HearthStone EPA certified wood burning stove.

Since 1988, wood stoves have been regulated by the EPA and local agencies. Our lines of modern stoves emit a fraction of the particulate matter than older, non certified or non functioning catalytic stoves. You can be proud to be heating using the most basic renewable, Carbon Neutral energy source available.

Here are the facts:

Trees are the only abundant, biodegradable and renewable global resource. Other “bio fuels” require high energy processing, transportation and packaging.

When a tree rots naturally or burns, the carbon contained in the wood is released back to the atmosphere. There is no additional carbon released from burning than from rotting.

Trees are the most powerful concentrators of carbon on Earth. Through photosynthesis, they absorb CO₂ from the atmosphere and store it in their wood. Although old trees contain huge amounts of carbon, their rate of sequestration has slowed to a near halt. A young tree, although it contains little fixed carbon, pulls CO₂from the atmosphere at a much faster rate. Young forests outperform old growth in carbon sequestration.

North Americans are the world’s largest per-capita wood consumers and yet our forests cover approximately the same area of land as they did 100 years ago. According to the United Nations, North American forests have expanded nearly 100 million acres over the past decade.

To address climate change, we must use more wood, not less. Using wood sends a signal to the marketplace to grow more trees and to produce more wood. That means we can then use less concrete, steel and plastic — heavy carbon emitters through their production.

As long as modern, efficient stoves are used correctly with seasoned, dry wood and hot fires wood heat shouldn't create problems for healthy people.


Some of the above data are excerpts from: Patrick Moore- Co-Founder- Greenpeace