Originally posted by sirrahbed

We like wood stoves in Ohio, too We do try to use it to heat the house and usually manage until about mid January by using ceiling fans on reverse, but our house is a sprawling ranch and though we like to sleep cold under quilts, it is not good to wake up and crack ice off the inside of the bedroom windows I do use a portable heater for the bathroom so I don't....uh....stick to the toilet seat
Our house is a rancher too! We have a little fan that sits right on top of the stove. It works great for moving the heat around the house, along with the ceiling fans. We don't have much choice but to heat with wood. There's no way to get natural gas up here. We have a proprane furnace as back up but at 90 cents a litre for propane, it only gets used when it's -40!