This Black Matte cast iron wood stove is for the use of heating your home IF you dont have electric. It includes the flutes that you will need to install in whatever space you need. This also comes with the dampener that is built inside of a flute, and this controls the level of heat you want to push through your house. The fan does not work on the stove, so i used to plug a fan beside when using this. Now IF you dont have electric, you do not have to use a fan. That just helps push the heat around evenly because whatever space you are heating WILL get super warm/hot! I just want to note that starting with the first 10 or so pictures i posted, that is what the stove USED TO look like. The bottom photos is what the stove is looking like now. I painted it with high temperature paint and it turned out beautifully! As you may be aware the stove is very heavy. If i had to compare it so something, I would say 1 person cannot pick it up. Its heavy even using aDolly!