Have any counties baned heating w/wood? (Maryville: loan, house)

[MOVIN-n-012]

Hi Folks,
Have the East TN counties any regulations on wood heat? What is the preffered type of heating fuel in the rural areas, oil, N gas, propane?
Thanks

[mbmouse]

Baning the choice of how to heat your house??? You haven't ever lived in TN have you? hehehhee I am just teasing you but I find lots of folks that come from very regulated/lots of zoning laws areas, they don't realize the big difference here. The local governments don't tell people what to do much at all on their own property, very few zoning laws and unless it is illegal activity of some sort, you can do what you want with your property.
But to answer your question, electric/propane/wood/ heating oil furnaces.
Hope that helps.

[klosk]

I am not allowed to talk about where I come from on this site but I can tell you in many states there are "NO Burn" days to compensate for the bad air pollution. Glad to see Tennessee doesn't have to worry about those kind of days.

[bbkaren]

"no burn days?" Wow, here in NJ, we can't burn at all--unless we have a permit. Big fine if we burn leaves or anything like that.

Burning papers? no way! EVER!

It even includes having a campfire or firepit in your yard...unless you're cooking something.

So if we're having a campfire, we just keep a package of hotdogs nearby in case "the man" comes!

Zoning here is insane as well.

We have 100-300 foot buffer zones from any body of water. On a piece of property we were looking at, there was a drainage ditch running through it, that emptied sewer water from the subdivision above.

We couldn't disturb the land within 100 feet of the drainage ditch because it was considered "wetlands".

These are among the reasons I want OUT!!!

[bbkaren]

p.s. They do let us heat with our wood stove though. But only after charging us an arm and a leg for the building permit and having the building inspector out twice during installation!

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by klosk

I am not allowed to talk about where I come from on this site but I can tell you in many states there are "NO Burn" days to compensate for the bad air pollution. Glad to see Tennessee doesn't have to worry about those kind of days.

Of course you can talk about where you come from on city-data!

[mbmouse]

Originally Posted by klosk

I am not allowed to talk about where I come from on this site but I can tell you in many states there are "NO Burn" days to compensate for the bad air pollution. Glad to see Tennessee doesn't have to worry about those kind of days.

No one said you couldn't talk about where you came from silly. Just keep this particular forum about TN as well.

[Milo Bloom]

The only catch on heating with wood is that many loan companies will not let you buy a house if its sole source of heating is listed as "wood". Of course, that doesn't mean that you can't supplement with wood; I don't think any place in TN prohibits woodburning fireplaces.

There are localities that prohibit outside burning, such as Maryville. IMO, that's a good thing because lots of the older country folks like to burn their trash in a barrel outside, and lots of that trash contains plastic which isn't especially healthy or good-smelling at all.