Originally posted by Cataholic

(and I have some very sad news for all you wood fireplace users...they are REALLY ineffective for heating.)
Wood fireplaces might be ineffective, but a good wood stove is amazing. I heat a 1700 square foot house with a wood stove. I have a proprane furnace as a back-up, but the price of propane causes me not to use it very much. Natural gas doesn't exsist in the Yukon. Most people use oil or wood to heat still. Some have electric heat. one of my friends bought a house with soley electric heat. his bill was equivalent to his mortgage for a month in the winter! he switched to heating oil in a hurry!