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    Thru-Wall Fans

    I put fans in a wall between my attached greenhouse and the kitchen on one end of my house. In my case, it turned out to work much better and be more...
    Post by: SteveKG, May 22, 2013 at 7:20 PM in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Brought more wood to the house again

    We usually burn about 2 1/2 cords ["real" cords] in a year, including some during the warmer months for occasional baking. This season will see us...
    Post by: SteveKG, Apr 26, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Still burning!!!!!!

    We are burning as much wood now as in Feb. of this year. Five days of snow, arose yesterday to +4 F. and didn't go above 17 F. all day. Sunny today,...
    Post by: SteveKG, Apr 19, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    I Think The Burning Season has Come To An End

    Last few days, fifties daytimes and 30s nights. Then this a.m., 8 F, and forecast 4 F tonight, snow all day, 65 mph winds. Denver iced up. We'll keep...
    Post by: SteveKG, Apr 9, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Will any tea kettle function on a wood stove top?

    I will add to my earlier response to this thread that we use glass tea kettle and 2-qt glass sauce pan atop wood stoves with zero problem.
    Post by: SteveKG, Mar 9, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Wood stove proximity to furniture & piano

    I'm no piano expert, but I am a musician and have been around plenty of pianos and their owners. The main problem for the piano is humidity, how much...
    Post by: SteveKG, Mar 8, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Insurance Companies and wood stoves...

    I did think a long time about dropping the insurance. Anyone would be scared to lose his home. And everything in it. During that time, by...
    Post by: SteveKG, Mar 8, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Insurance Companies and wood stoves...

    Funny, we have three wood stoves. After 25 yr. with Farmers, agent stopped by again [they seem to do this every five years or so] and looked over our...
    Post by: SteveKG, Mar 8, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Wood stove withdrawal

    This sad tale—doing without one's wood-heat source for a week—just goes to show why having two wood stoves is not such a bad idea....
    Post by: SteveKG, Feb 23, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    More ash = more heat?

    In late winter of 2003, we had a "hundred year" snowfall here that dropped over 60" overnight. Made getting out to the wood pile an expedition....
    Post by: SteveKG, Feb 10, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    smoke smell from fireplace

    Yes, try that slider door very first thing. You may find that it works and you don't wanna do anything else. It also costs nothing and takes no...
    Post by: SteveKG, Feb 5, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Pushing a stove hard during cold weather justify a second stove?

    We added a second stove...first one was at one end of the house and we cranked it on really cold days to warm the other end of the house. The second...
    Post by: SteveKG, Feb 5, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Wood seasoning

    I leave wood in rounds when I have enough split and am short on time to split it more at the time. I stack the rounds just like split wood and leave...
    Post by: SteveKG, Jan 17, 2013 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Bugs I've brought in the house on my firewood...

    Any possibility of a decent photo? Should be fairly simple to identify with a picture. I have had various beetles wake up and come out of...
    Post by: SteveKG, Jan 8, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Clearances to Combustibles Theory

    Not in the mood right this moment to read every post so far in this thread, so if I am restating something, forgive me. But back some years,...
    Post by: SteveKG, Jan 4, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Tight clearance stoves (freestanding)

    My Heartland is 5". I don't recall the spec's exactly but I think my RAIS is 6".
    Post by: SteveKG, Jan 4, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Its Officially Cold. I got what I was asking for....

    It was the warmest fall I've seen here in decades. I burned maybe a quarter cord until a week ago. However, this a.m. I arose to find the thermometer...
    Post by: SteveKG, Jan 1, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Wood cook stove

    We bought an Aga Heartland Artisan in Nov. 2010. It was our third wood-fired cookstove and will be our last. It is a joy to own and use. I bake all...
    Post by: SteveKG, Dec 25, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    "Remote" smoke alarm

    We have an attached greenhouse with our RAIS stove in it for those extra-cold nights. Solar-heated room, so no backup except the stove. Maybe a...
    Thread by: SteveKG, Dec 20, 2012, 7 replies, in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Basic questions that aren't even in the Newbie sticky.

    Thirty yr. ago I as thinking as you are now. I built my cottage and the fireplace from scratch. I incorporated two outside air ducts into the...
    Post by: SteveKG, Dec 17, 2012 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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