That thing is HOT!
Well, it got cold this week - as you may have noticed. We were blessed with about four inches of snow early this week, and it is still here as I type. The kids have been enthralled. They go out, make something (Angles' Wings, Snowman, snow fort...) wander around in the snow, eat a bit, throw somw snowballs, and finally - when they are just about frozen, come in and drip dry by the gas log.
Of course, it's fairly cold - staying around 32 or so in the day, and dropping below 30 at night. The house we have has several kinds of heat, gas log in the old fireplace, electric heater up in the Sun Room, gas stove in the Family Room, and a fuel furnace in the central air system. Over a month ago, I picked up an old wood buring stove and put in down in the basement, right next to the furnance. The stove had a fan on the back to blow air through the sides of it and out vents in the front - nice, but it had been exposed to the weather and no longer spun freely. There's no glass on the doors, just an air vent knob for each door. The top is flat and the exhaust is a 3"X9" rectangle - that held me up a bit getting it hooked up to the round stove pipe.
So, it was cold this morning - in the house. Seems the furnace quit in the nite (guess it got a bit thirsty or something). So when I rolled out of bed, I knew I had to do a couple of things - fix the furnace, and get that wood burning stove hooked up!
Off to town to get the supplies for the stove. I was able to get just about everything I needed. When I got back, the fuel furnance wasn't cooperating, so I attacked the stove to the exhaust, and Shazam! We got some heat. Mind you, I haven't hooked it into the central air system - yet. But it heats the basement, and all the bedrooms above the basement very nicely.
And, wow! Does it get hot! I have some wood from out yard and some I picked up from a co-worker. Said it was cedar, and Cherry. Some of it could pass for cedar. Don't know about cherry though. In any case, we are staying warm - and using wood.
God is good!
Mike
Of course, it's fairly cold - staying around 32 or so in the day, and dropping below 30 at night. The house we have has several kinds of heat, gas log in the old fireplace, electric heater up in the Sun Room, gas stove in the Family Room, and a fuel furnace in the central air system. Over a month ago, I picked up an old wood buring stove and put in down in the basement, right next to the furnance. The stove had a fan on the back to blow air through the sides of it and out vents in the front - nice, but it had been exposed to the weather and no longer spun freely. There's no glass on the doors, just an air vent knob for each door. The top is flat and the exhaust is a 3"X9" rectangle - that held me up a bit getting it hooked up to the round stove pipe.
So, it was cold this morning - in the house. Seems the furnace quit in the nite (guess it got a bit thirsty or something). So when I rolled out of bed, I knew I had to do a couple of things - fix the furnace, and get that wood burning stove hooked up!
Off to town to get the supplies for the stove. I was able to get just about everything I needed. When I got back, the fuel furnance wasn't cooperating, so I attacked the stove to the exhaust, and Shazam! We got some heat. Mind you, I haven't hooked it into the central air system - yet. But it heats the basement, and all the bedrooms above the basement very nicely.
And, wow! Does it get hot! I have some wood from out yard and some I picked up from a co-worker. Said it was cedar, and Cherry. Some of it could pass for cedar. Don't know about cherry though. In any case, we are staying warm - and using wood.
God is good!
Mike
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