You young whippersnappers have no idea what it is to heat with a cast iron stove. The immediate area around the stove gets up to 100 degrees while the rest of the house freezes.
My father installed the first "central" heat in our area. It was a coal fired furnace in the cellar with one big register in the "center" of the house. We were truly modern. Why we even had running water inside the house.
Hey, I've roughed it before too:') Sir Edward would have a fit if he knew I was telling you this but we have had to block off doors with blankets and everyone sleep in the same room a few times. Next to the heater toasty but the further away the cooler the room. In the old days when we didn't have ac sometimes on the 100 plus nights we would make a tent around a fan with sheets. The little ones loved it.
We heated this house for nearly 7 years with a wood burning stove, with wood we cut ourselves. There was no central heat at all.
We now only heat with a propane stove in the living room. We had central heat put in but it is way to expensive to run.
Becky