If you live in an area that has a cold climate and is rural, chances are you get most of your heat from wood.

For most, some iteration of a wood stove is the method of choice and for many, that wood stove is a primary source of heat or, at least, is an auxiliary source to augment other forms of heating.

Wood stoves by nature, however, are inefficient – most of the heat in them goes out the pipe-hole that allows gasses and smoke to escape – unless you have a baffle that traps the heat or, at least, contains most of it in the stove, forcing it to heat outward.

In most new wood stoves, the baffle is already installed, but on older stoves that is not necessarily the case.

The video on the next page shows you how to install a baffle if your stove does not have one or if the baffle it has is not useful.

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