End of the season

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johneh

Minister of Fire
Hearth Supporter
Dec 19, 2009
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Eastern Ontario
Thank you all for an interesting heating season on this forum. Today is my last burn
Tomorrow I will do a complete teardown and cleaning on Sunday, we will leave for
our summer home. Where I will spend my days drinking beer and fishing. Finally, full
retirement. Just remember to clean your stoves completely, put damp rid in the firebox.
Seal your chimney from birds and other critters, also you OAK if you have one . See you
all in the fall
Johneh
 
Still burning here. At least on the sunny days the stove doesn't need to run.

Have fun during you summer home adventures. Full retirement - congrats!
 
Congratulations on your retirement! Enjoy drowning the worms! Have a cold one for me!
 
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Thank you all for an interesting heating season on this forum. Today is my last burn
Tomorrow I will do a complete teardown and cleaning on Sunday, we will leave for
our summer home. Where I will spend my days drinking beer and fishing. Finally, full
retirement. Just remember to clean your stoves completely, put damp rid in the firebox.
Seal your chimney from birds and other critters, also you OAK if you have one . See you
all in the fall
Johneh
Congratulations on the retirement. Have a great summer.
 
Well Earned brotha!! Enjoy and teach the younger one about harman’s 🤣🤣 See ya in the fall! 😎
 
Retired 10 years ago, still seem to have stuff to do every day. Fishing sounds good use to do alot of it but now can't get around well enough. Enjoy it while you can.

17 F last night oil furnace was running every 30 minutes. Started pellet stove back up looks like it will run at least until Thursday. Cold weather just not leaving the northeast.
 
Are you Canuck's allowed to have more than one home? Doesn't that increase your carbon footprint?

Just kidding. Congratulations. I'm still about 20 years away from that.

I'm also burning for at least a couple hours per day here, mostly in the mornings, as we've had frost nearly every day lately. We sure could use a few days of sunshine strung together!
 
42* was my high temp yesterday. today is supposed to be the warmest day for the next week. Supposedly supposed to get in the 60s and then drop the rest of the days. It will be iteresting to see if that actually happens - and if it does, if it lasts more than 10 minutes.
 
Welp…a ton of rain coming and most likely some snow out here in the western Canadian Rockies…had the stove prepped for a tear down and some new paint…but alas it’s fired up as we’re at 5c/40f-ish and it’ll drop I’m sure…I’ll post pics if we get a dump of snow.
 
Welp…a ton of rain coming and most likely some snow out here in the western Canadian Rockies…had the stove prepped for a tear down and some new paint…but alas it’s fired up as we’re at 5c/40f-ish and it’ll drop I’m sure…I’ll post pics if we get a dump of snow.

I was thinking about putting the P43 to rest until next season, but when I saw the forecast for yesterday, decided to wait. Got a bunch of well needed rain and it was in the 30's until the system passed in the afternoon where it got near 50. I personally did not see any snow, but people in my town and surrounding towns were reporting some white stuff falling. I did see what appeared to be a mix of rain and sleet, but the ground is too warm and it melted right away. It is currently 37* this morning and the stove is running.
 
So yeah it snowed a bit
 

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Yesterday I deep cleaned the P43 and blocked up the exhaust. It is done for the season (P61a was put up on 4/28/26)
 
Yesterday I deep cleaned the P43 and blocked up the exhaust. It is done for the season (P61a was put up on 4/28/26)
used to do the P61A in one shot but my joints dont agree anymore so i do it in sections now.. 2 maybe 3 areas get cleaned each day.