The joy... The joy..!

[FionaD]

i just wanted to share this with people who will get it...

11 months since my stove was very badly installed... 11 months of detecting - as a complete greenhorn - all the problems and getting them fixed, one by one... Then, just over a week ago, getting a load of wood that wouldn't burn and not knowing if it was still a problem my stove or if it was the wood... Buying a moisture metre... Etc etc...

Finally it is all fixed and all is well.! Thanks for all the help and advice you have given along the way.

So I just want to share with you guys who get what it's all about... Here I am, settling down for the evening, the shutters are closed against the howling wind and the stove has been fired up with a load of dry as a bone oak and birch... now the secondaries are dancing and the air has been turned right down. There is nothing to do but hug the cup in my hands, watch the flames and get warmer as the night slowly falls into the glen...

The joy... The joy..!

 

[jotul?]

Thank you for sharing! Beautiful!

 

[gzecc]

With those words I can only imagine the scenery out your windows in Scotland. How about some pics? From the stove room of course, so its still relavant to this board.

 

[Fsappo]

way to stick with it. Enjoy those moments in front of the stove.

 

[Simonkenton]

That is a beautiful thing. A Celtic man and a Norweigan stove.
I am of Scottish ancestry and I too am getting a Jotul Oslo next year.

 

[FionaD]

Celtic woman actually...

Aye... Lots of Scots in the Carolinas, I belive.

The Jotuls are great. Really easy to operate - at least when they are properly installed and the wood is dry! Beautiful big view of the fire through the glass. You will enjoy your new stove. An Oslo would be too big for our wee cottage, the F3 is perfect, heats the whole place if we keep the doors open.

I love the wood fire in your avatar Simon. Is that yours?

With those words I can only imagine the scenery out your windows in Scotland. How about some pics? From the stove room of course, so its still relavant to this board

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Pic as requested. Obviously not taken right this instant as its pitch black outside now. The mountain is called Ben Ledi, it means the mountain of God. They say the druids used to worship there in the days before wood stoves....

 

[velvetfoot]

Beautiful hearth and view.

 

[Fod01]

I want to live there!

Happy the stove is working for you
Gabe

 

[Simonkenton]

Yes Fiona I live in a log cabin in the mountains, I built this fireplace.

 

[FionaD]

Yes Fiona I live in a log cabin in the mountains, I built this fireplace.

I hope you're not going to put your new Oslo there...!

 

[nvanhar]

Couldn't agree more! Nice view out your windows there...

 

[Simonkenton]

No wood stove in that fireplace, God forbid! No, the new Oslo will go in the corner of the new log cabin addition I will build next year.

 

[BrotherBart]

Now Fiona the only missing is a wee touch of a pretentious single malt.

 

[toddnic]

Definitely understand! Enjoy!

 

[Cynnergy]

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Now Fiona the only missing is a wee touch of a pretentious single malt.

Surely you mean 'a wee dram' BB?

 

[BrotherBart]

One of them too.

 

[FionaD]

Now Fiona the only missing is a wee touch of a pretentious single malt.

Surely you mean 'a wee dram' BB?

Sheesh... Can't stand the stuff. Tastes like creosote to me - and that's a real dirty word round here!

No wood stove in that fireplace, God forbid! No, the new Oslo will go in the corner of the new log cabin addition I will build next year.

Glad to hear it Simon. Although I'm pretty sure if you were able to make such a beautiful hearth you would have made the Oslo look beautiful in it too. Sounds like a really lovely place you have.

I just hope that everyone currently posting on this forum about stove issues gets to this place of it all being fixed,of being able to take a deep sigh and just enjoying their working stove.

...Keep on solving, fixing, figuring out.. Boy, It's worth it.

 

[Kevin Dolan]

Now Fiona the only missing is a wee touch of a pretentious single malt.

There is nothing pretentious about single malt

 

[Kevin Dolan]

Celtic woman actually...

Aye... Lots of Scots in the Carolinas, I belive.

The Jotuls are great. Really easy to operate - at least when they are properly installed and the wood is dry! Beautiful big view of the fire through the glass. You will enjoy your new stove. An Oslo would be too big for our wee cottage, the F3 is perfect, heats the whole place if we keep the doors open.

I love the wood fire in your avatar Simon. Is that yours?

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Pic as requested. Obviously not taken right this instant as its pitch black outside now. The mountain is called Ben Ledi, it means the mountain of God. They say the druids used to worship there in the days before wood stoves....

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Great veiw, is that on the west coast? Glad you got your stove figured out or should I say wood. I have a castine and it took me two years to figure it out, mostly wood issues. Great to hear from Scotland

 

[DTrain]

Celtic woman actually...

Aye... Lots of Scots in the Carolinas, I belive.

The Jotuls are great. Really easy to operate - at least when they are properly installed and the wood is dry! Beautiful big view of the fire through the glass. You will enjoy your new stove. An Oslo would be too big for our wee cottage, the F3 is perfect, heats the whole place if we keep the doors open.

I love the wood fire in your avatar Simon. Is that yours?

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Pic as requested. Obviously not taken right this instant as its pitch black outside now. The mountain is called Ben Ledi, it means the mountain of God. They say the druids used to worship there in the days before wood stoves....

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Beautiful scene! Drummond is my family name. I am told there is a castle by that name there. Would like to visit one day.

 

[firefighterjake]

Wow . . . fantastic pic . . . thanks for sharing. My wife wants to go to Scotland and Ireland in a couple of years.

 

[Woody Stover]

I don't know how they play golf over there. I bet that's where the tavern was invented, so they could warm up at the "19th hole" after playing 18.

Aye... Lots of Scots in the Carolinas, I belive

I think there are some Klansmen pretty close to here in Elizabethtown, KY as well...both kinds.

 

[Simonkenton]

"Although I'm pretty sure if you were able to make such a beautiful hearth you would have made the Oslo look beautiful in it too. Sounds like a really lovely place you have."
Thank you Fiona. I will make a similar hearth for the Jotul, big rocks from the creek.

 

[FionaD]

Great veiw, is that on the west coast? Glad you got your stove figured out or should I say wood. I have a castine and it took me two years to figure it out, mostly wood issues. Great to hear from Scotland

It's 'technically' the West coast, yes.. Do bear in mind that in much of Scotland the coasts are just three hours' drive apart! Hard for you guys to get your heads around that, I would think!
Problems were with the installation initially (for a long time!) then more recently a wood issue. Glad it's all behind me now...

Beautiful scene! Drummond is my family name. I am told there is a castle by that name there. Would like to visit one day.

Aye, Drummond Castle is about a half hour's drive from here. Lots of Drummond estates all around.

Thank you Fiona. I will make a similar hearth for the Jotul, big rocks from the creek.

That will be quite something... And of course there will be pics of it, and your cabin too, on the forum, right?

 

[Kevin Dolan]

It's 'technically' the West coast, yes.. Do bear in mind that in much of Scotland the coasts are just three hours' drive apart! Hard for you guys to get your heads around that, I would think!
Problems were with the installation initially (for a long time!) then more recently a wood issue. Glad it's all behind me now...

Aye, Drummond Castle is about a half hour's drive from here. Lots of Drummond estates all around.

That will be quite something... And of course there will be pics of it, and your cabin too, on the forum, right?

Fiona I am from close to braemar in Scotland and strangely enough live here in Ontario very close to a wee crossroads named braemar. What a small world. Our farm is called glenilsa and just down the road is a small village called Strathalln. My neighbours are McKays, smiths,mcrearys, McLeod,,,McElroy, so as scottish as you can get.
The scots settled here in the 1845-60 after the clearances and helped to settle this great country I now live in.
Best regards,
Kevin