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In reply to the discussion: Please read this if you are in the path of the ice (Pax) [View all]wercal
(1,370 posts)They both burn gas.
But they are also different.
One is vented....one typically isn't.
The stove is typically on for short periods of time, while the furnace can burn for quite a while, unattended, throughout the night.
This is why a stove should not be used as a furnace.
BTW, I've got CO detectors hard-wired in my house, in several rooms....but I also went to the store and bought a battery powered one, and it is right next to my furnace. I mean inches from the flame chamber. It has never gone off. And if it did, it would get shut off and its time to call the furnace guy.
As I said before, odds are at least one person will die of CO from this storm. The stove burner is serious business.
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