I'm willing to bet that I'm not the only person who has had a problem with chairs in a wood-heated home.
Think about it. Remember that nice set of dining room chairs you bought or inherited from your Aunt? Yeah--the nice wood chairs with all the rungs intact. Do you remember what started hapenning to those chairs after spending a winter or two in your house?
If your house is anywhere as near as cozy (and dry) as mine is, all the rungs on those chairs started getting loose. Before long, you started knocking all the rungs into place each time before you sat in one of those chairs!
I've visited most of the usual remedies: trying to swell and re-glue the tenons... adding huge pans of water on the wood stove. My home is solar-powered---so I cannot spare the electricity required to run an electric humidifier. With my pans of water (and an occassional load of wet laundry hung to dry inside) the house at least remains humidified enough to avoid those nasty little sparks of static electricity every time you touch a door knob. (Anybody see the movie Office Space?)
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I've resorted to buying a few good quality office chairs---nothing to shrink and come apart on those type chairs, but they are kind of unsightly in the living room---even the very expensive ones.
I'm wanting to get a pair of "reading chairs" to put in the same room as the wood stove. I want chairs with arms--but not those huge overstuffed monstrocities that put you to sleep immediately after you plop down. Comfortable though. Most important... something that will not start falling apart after the wood stove is running for a few weeks. I'm interested in hearing all sorts of "chair success" stories as they relate to wood-heated homes.
Think about it. Remember that nice set of dining room chairs you bought or inherited from your Aunt? Yeah--the nice wood chairs with all the rungs intact. Do you remember what started hapenning to those chairs after spending a winter or two in your house?
If your house is anywhere as near as cozy (and dry) as mine is, all the rungs on those chairs started getting loose. Before long, you started knocking all the rungs into place each time before you sat in one of those chairs!
I've visited most of the usual remedies: trying to swell and re-glue the tenons... adding huge pans of water on the wood stove. My home is solar-powered---so I cannot spare the electricity required to run an electric humidifier. With my pans of water (and an occassional load of wet laundry hung to dry inside) the house at least remains humidified enough to avoid those nasty little sparks of static electricity every time you touch a door knob. (Anybody see the movie Office Space?)
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I've resorted to buying a few good quality office chairs---nothing to shrink and come apart on those type chairs, but they are kind of unsightly in the living room---even the very expensive ones.
I'm wanting to get a pair of "reading chairs" to put in the same room as the wood stove. I want chairs with arms--but not those huge overstuffed monstrocities that put you to sleep immediately after you plop down. Comfortable though. Most important... something that will not start falling apart after the wood stove is running for a few weeks. I'm interested in hearing all sorts of "chair success" stories as they relate to wood-heated homes.