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 ...

They are popping up in backyards all over. Outdoor wood burning furnaces are replacing traditional oil and natural gas boilers as the primary heating source for some homeowners in a bid to buck ...

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 ...

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 ...

SARANAC LAKE -- Two out of three villages in the Tri-Lakes now restrict outdoor wood boilers. Both Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake held public hearings and passed laws last week restricting the outdoor ...

HAMPDEN, Mass. -- Rob and Lynne Wallace jumped at the chance to install an outdoor wood boiler two years ago to heat their home and water supply. For a year, they were immune to fluctuating fuel oil ...