About nine years ago, April and Greg Bodette of Glover decided to get an outdoor wood boiler. They’d previously used a wood stove to heat their house, but the smoke and dust was a major drawback: They ...

WAUSAU, Wis.—An explosion in the number of outdoor wood-fired boilers to heat homes is creating a new air quality problem—their smoke is choking neighbors. Over the past three years, the Wisconsin ...

Green, sustainable, inexpensive space heating and domestic hot water is what I wanted for my house and workshop. It was early 2010 when I began researching outdoor wood furnaces as an option for ...

LYMAN -- There's a relatively new and growing phenomenon on the home heating horizon these days. Known commonly as outdoor wood furnaces and outdoor wood boilers, the devices represent an attempt to ...

There are a number of advantages to outdoor wood boilers. One is that they can accept far more cordwood than even the largest wood stove, offering longer burn times. Though manual stoking is required, ...