Stove coming friday
Can’t wait. Hope it’s easy to install, winter is headed in with a vengeance
Dawned on me that I hadn’t shopped around at all, and I had a moment of buyer’s remorse thinking, with my luck, this was half the price elsewhere… truth was, I bought it at the lowest price it’s being sold at anywhere.
Well congratulations, Neandersaver.
Remorse is part of any good deal. With a stove you won’t know for awhile if you got the best of them or not.
Hope you have a warm hovel this winter.
I’ll be plenty warm. I’m hoping for warm and cheap.
The Devil is in only ONE detail with a wood stove: the chimney. Best chimney is masonry with a fireclay flue-liner. Second best is MetalBestos insulated stovepipe-within-shell.
If you have a lot of snow or rain there, don’t forget a proper cap.
OR, you could fergit all I said and put in one of the new zero-clearance pellet-fired stoves with through-the-wall vent.
The original fireplace had a clay flue, that failed. I replaced it with a 10″ stainless liner, the new insert comes with a 6″ staineless liner that will go inside that for efficiency. I have it on good authority this is the system to be desired. We’ll see.
We installed a woodstove for our primary heat when we lived in Valdez years ago, and just used the furnace for backup. It was amazing how much heat that little thing put out, and how much backbreaking WORK it was to keep the woodshed filled. Enjoy!
That’s good news, and I hope it works for a LONG time…
That is actually a great flue system for what you’re doing.
When I lived in the Upper Peninsula (of MI) in the 80’s, I had, first, and Ashley Heater, very efficient wood stove with a metal jacket on it and a blower to circulate the heat, then a real wood-fired hot air furnace, which fed into the gas furnace system of the 5-bedroom 2500 square-foot home I lived in. I burned about 7 cords of Maple per year, paid $350 for a ten-cord log truck to dump it’s load on my side yard, where I bucked it up, three cuts to an 8-foot log, virtually none of which were big enough to have to split. Consequently, most of the work was in stacking and hauling.
For the shoulder season, when we would only need heat for a little while in the mornings, I cut and burned Jack Pine off my own property. It’s a stunted variety of Pine which only grows to 30 feet or so in the taiga of the UP, and it burns hot and fast.
Not only did I save a ton of money heating with wood, I kept fit almost year-round doing it for the three years I lived there, all of which had bad winters (232″ of snow in ’82-’83).