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We've had frost for three mornings straight, and they say a Nor'easter is brewing. Calling for rain, but they remind us this is when over a foot of snow came to parts of the North East last year.
Ok, 5 out of six zones are in the 50's °F , so I'm caving in on oil heat. Waiting for insulation to arrive, make new left side and top panels, reassemble, reconfigure chimney, yada, yada, yada . . . it'll be at least a week and a half before the GreeBeast starts puttin out.
While reflecting on the tasks at hand last night, it occurred to me that the original skins went from Jan 2007 till April 2010. Call that three and a half years. And that first year with a bunch of Basswood and H2O temps in the 155 °F ballpark sometimes, 3 1/2 don't seem so bad. The busted up refractory is still a major peeve. Looks like it was designed for two straps to hold it in place, and the Genius' at GreenWood decided to only put in one.
So . . . have I actually recovered my costs yet? If not, I am dayum close
Ok, 5 out of six zones are in the 50's °F , so I'm caving in on oil heat. Waiting for insulation to arrive, make new left side and top panels, reassemble, reconfigure chimney, yada, yada, yada . . . it'll be at least a week and a half before the GreeBeast starts puttin out.
While reflecting on the tasks at hand last night, it occurred to me that the original skins went from Jan 2007 till April 2010. Call that three and a half years. And that first year with a bunch of Basswood and H2O temps in the 155 °F ballpark sometimes, 3 1/2 don't seem so bad. The busted up refractory is still a major peeve. Looks like it was designed for two straps to hold it in place, and the Genius' at GreenWood decided to only put in one.
So . . . have I actually recovered my costs yet? If not, I am dayum close