Enjoy the warmth of your woodstove. We have been burning wood for heat since the middle '70s. Our stove being older does not have catalytic heater so we have to be sure to clean out chimney (stainless steel) a couple of times a winter season. As long as my husband can obtain free wood (he loves to saw, split and stack the wood!) My house is small and open so stove keeps us cozy unless temps go down below 0 then on goes the house furnace. I also cook stews in a cast iron pot on top of the stove. W also had 2 cats for 15 years and they would get stretch close or further away depending on how hot the stove was running.