Thank you, Stovetalk Guys
For many years, autumn to spring, I've been lurking here, learning, but with no like wisdom to give back... And won't have, for eons... Unless I start burning indoors. We live in the boondocks and use a 17 yr old Hardy outdoor wood burning furnace for all our heat and hot water year round.
Each year I begin reading here when I get cold enough to feel our current set up is just crazy, and so, start again to convince my husband...and now my youngest daughter climbs up on my lap with chilly little toes and fingers. If we are really warm, it's because my husband is home and has gone out there to babysit it 9 or 10 times a day. The furnace has a voracious appetite, which doesn't match the level of heat that gets to the house, I feel. Though our wood is free for just the work, as we live on forested land, we burn many piles a year, and never, ever have enough!
From your talk, I'm pretty sure an indoor stove would be more efficient at warmth.
Here's pix of what I have to work with, fireplace wise.
Dont think its a true masonry fireplace, as there is a basement bedroom below, not a chimney flue. ?. Is this a 1960s fabricated metal heatilator insert?
Opening dimensions are 42 wide x 31 3/4 high. 22" depth. 30 1/2" width at back. A 3 1/2 " brick lip holds up the glass doors and would need to be removed, I guess.
If so, can I put the larger Englander in there, realizing clearance and work room will be tight? (Husband only wants a near all night burner, as to firebox size, and he cares most about low price, and we have just Home Depot and a Regency Dealer within 3 hrs of us, that I can tell)
For many years, autumn to spring, I've been lurking here, learning, but with no like wisdom to give back... And won't have, for eons... Unless I start burning indoors. We live in the boondocks and use a 17 yr old Hardy outdoor wood burning furnace for all our heat and hot water year round.
Each year I begin reading here when I get cold enough to feel our current set up is just crazy, and so, start again to convince my husband...and now my youngest daughter climbs up on my lap with chilly little toes and fingers. If we are really warm, it's because my husband is home and has gone out there to babysit it 9 or 10 times a day. The furnace has a voracious appetite, which doesn't match the level of heat that gets to the house, I feel. Though our wood is free for just the work, as we live on forested land, we burn many piles a year, and never, ever have enough!
From your talk, I'm pretty sure an indoor stove would be more efficient at warmth.
Here's pix of what I have to work with, fireplace wise.
Dont think its a true masonry fireplace, as there is a basement bedroom below, not a chimney flue. ?. Is this a 1960s fabricated metal heatilator insert?
Opening dimensions are 42 wide x 31 3/4 high. 22" depth. 30 1/2" width at back. A 3 1/2 " brick lip holds up the glass doors and would need to be removed, I guess.
If so, can I put the larger Englander in there, realizing clearance and work room will be tight? (Husband only wants a near all night burner, as to firebox size, and he cares most about low price, and we have just Home Depot and a Regency Dealer within 3 hrs of us, that I can tell)
I don't have a camera phone, am trying to upload from a strange ipad. Any pic uploading tips that will make it easier on readers, ? I sure could use them!
That's good help in itself!
Someone will have to get up there to measure and confirm.
