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  1. DickRussell
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    Interior Chimney Chase Install - sorry its a longer post

    Wx, if I understand your plan of the chase, you will have a chase in the "attic" (space between upper and lower chords of the scissor trusses), and...
    Post by: DickRussell, Apr 16, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Air sealing satisfaction.

    Rusty, if this is new construction you are describing, you can do one of two things to address box leakage. Lessco makes a flanged polypan that...
    Post by: DickRussell, Mar 14, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    foil with airspace or insulation board?

    Chain, if you have plumbing fastened to the floor joists, that could be a good part of the noise transmission issue. I ran into that; the plumbers...
    Post by: DickRussell, Mar 7, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    foil with airspace or insulation board?

    Gary, even if the foil is perforated, it's overall permeability for molecular diffusion of water vapor likely will be insufficient for drying....
    Post by: DickRussell, Mar 3, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    foil with airspace or insulation board?

    Woodgeek has good advice. To his I would add that in western MA you at least ought to avoid that foil layer inside, as well as polyethylene or other...
    Post by: DickRussell, Mar 3, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
  6. DickRussell
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    I'm falling out of love with my stove.

    Hey, Zip, as Motor7 said, get those bare (?) basement walls insulated. Assuming they are flat-surfaced, the best way is with 2" or more of sheets of...
    Post by: DickRussell, Mar 1, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Does the height of a house affect air leak problems?

    What you are talking about is the "stack effect." The pressure difference from bottom to top of a chimney, the driving force for flow of air or flue...
    Post by: DickRussell, Feb 16, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Need help with picking first wood stove

    If your house is fairly tight, and arguably even if it isn't supertight, you ought to think about having an outside air kit (OAK) provide the...
    Post by: DickRussell, Jan 21, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
  9. DickRussell
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    insulating basement walls.

    I sat through that 30 minute video and thought that in general it was quite good. My only comment regards his assertion that the concrete foundation...
    Post by: DickRussell, Jan 21, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    insulating basement walls.

    Insulating the basement walls is only part of the job. With no insulation under the slab, you still have a huge area in contact with typically cool...
    Post by: DickRussell, Jan 19, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    How'd you start?

    Our first summer camp, an open stud wall cabin, had a small woodstove, hardly more than a large, black tin can. But it did throw out the heat nicely....
    Post by: DickRussell, Dec 21, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    QUESTION ABOUT AN OAK

    One problem with not having the OAK is that when the fire burns out overnight, the path from the room up through the chimney remains open, and...
    Post by: DickRussell, Dec 5, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Torch Users - MAPP or Propane

    My son's a plumber, and he uses only MAPP for copper work, because it does burn hotter, and so heats up the joint faster for the solder to flow....
    Post by: DickRussell, Dec 5, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    How do you light your stove?

    We had a thread on this subject just last week, I think, but too many pages back to find easily. I think the biggest problem some have in getting a...
    Post by: DickRussell, Oct 30, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Anyone use leaves with twigs, etc to start a fire?

    I usually have quite a collection of birch bark pieces, much of it multi-years old, that I store in the woodpile, under cover. Also, a few times a...
    Post by: DickRussell, Oct 22, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Water source mini split?

    The first thing that comes to mind is the size of that well and it's ability to provide heat over the long haul of a winter. When using a water well...
    Post by: DickRussell, Oct 22, 2012 in forum: The Green Room
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    Anyone have a geothermal heat pump system?

    I don't have separate metering on the heat pump, or the well pump for that matter. Having an hour meter running now, tied to the compressor...
    Post by: DickRussell, Oct 18, 2012 in forum: The Green Room
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    Insulation calulations

    To evaluate options, you should be dividing areas by their R values, not multiplying. Here's the reasoning. The "heat transfer coefficient,"...
    Post by: DickRussell, Oct 18, 2012 in forum: The Green Room
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    Vent for a room right above my stove?

    If the hallway outside the kid's room gets heat from the woodstove, you could put a 4" hole in BR wall up high, with a small plugin fan on it, and...
    Post by: DickRussell, Oct 13, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Anyone have a geothermal heat pump system?

    I have a two-ton, two-stage Climatemaster water to air heat pump. The gross square footage of the house is nearly 4,000 sq.ft, in central NH. But...
    Post by: DickRussell, Oct 10, 2012 in forum: The Green Room
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