This old farm house is 60 years old and was built from Red Oak that was cut and milled on the farm. It’s solidly built but I replaced all of the old original windows about five years ago with the Low-e double pane gas filled windows. It’s much easier to heat now, especially with the wood stove. I can’t afford to use electric heat exclusively. We try to cut downed trees on the farm when we can but we can even buy wood a lot cheaper than we can buy electric heat. We have 14 acres of hardwood on the farm with 30 acres of hay fields. We make out much better than people in town. Rural people, especially the middle and older generations, will not put up with the government messing with their wood stoves. We also bought one of those little infrared heaters for the end of the house that the wood stove can’t completely warm, especially at night. I can fill the wood stove’s wood box before bedtime, turn the damper down some, and it will heat all night until about 6:00am. By then it’s down to hot coals but it’s still warm. The infrared’s use less electricity than the heat pump and I set the thermostat on it at 65 or 68 so that it doesn’t run all the time. Electric heat for us is for backup only or when it’s cool but not cold enough to fire up the wood stove.