Now that the downstairs office is painted and we have our new lighting installed, we decided we would clean out the area around the wood stove and fire it up. I figured there was about a fifty percent chance we would fill the room with smoke and have to use the fire extinguisher to put out the fire, but it all worked perfectly. We plan to start using the wood stove more because it really heats up the whole room. It surely changes the atmosphere of the room to have a fire burning there.