It is pyro season

[OWC Jamie]

It's not all that cold out, just trying to dry out mud.
But it has been damp rainy wet and cool and the heat is turned off in this room to replace the sheet rock and replace windows.


local pests

[bfd]

billb wrote:
local pests

You should know that birds can't talk. But they ARE probably thinking that whenever they happen upon your place.

[TheCaber]

It is duck season!

[steve...]

I lit my Pellet Stove for the first time last Tuesday - just the one time.

Our low temps are still in the mid to low fifties so it will be a few more days before I fire it up again.

[DP]

Have had the furnace on for a month! 49º right now...

[mrbigstuff]

are you staying old school to match the rest of the house and getting plastered?



btw, what kind of stove? do you recommend it? I'm still looking around for a fireplace insert, at this point just want to order it and get the flue and get started.

[OWC Jamie]

mrbigstuff wrote:
are you staying old school to match the rest of the house and getting plastered?

This was a 8x8' "vestibule"' that became 16x20' addition in 1970. Originally drywall but never joint compounded - had thin (real) wood panelling slapped over it. I've torn the suspended ceiling out, replaced the drywalled ceiling, ripped the ugly panelling out and then added 3/8" sheetrock over what was there. Replaced the windows at the same time. The rest of the house has had Pella aluminum clad casements put in and now these match those.

mrbigstuff wrote:
btw, what kind of stove? do you recommend it? I'm still looking around for a fireplace insert, at this point just want to order it and get the flue and get started.

True North TN19 is made by Pacific Energy.
It's an entry level stove -plain steel. It burns nice and clean , but the Summit or the Super ( I forget which has the better longer burn control system. and might burn for an hour longer.
From what I've read of inserts you either have a large enough fireplace to put a regular wood stove or compromise with an insert and you start with the dimensions of the fireplace and see what stove will actually fit. Supposedly you get more heat out of a real box stove in a fireplace ( if you have room ) than an insert.

[Michael]

I lit our fireplace stove for the first time this morning when it was upper 40's. I really like that first fire each year.

[OWC Jamie]

bfd wrote:
[quote=billb]
local pests

You should know that birds can't talk. But they ARE probably thinking that whenever they happen upon your place.
and yet they keep coming back.

[rjmacs]

billb wrote:
[quote=bfd]
[quote=billb]
local pests

You should know that birds can't talk. But they ARE probably thinking that whenever they happen upon your place.
and yet they keep coming back.
Thanksgiving is coming!