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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North
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To: marcos who wrote (1584)11/3/2001 12:41:59 PM
From: ralfph  Read Replies (3) of 8273
 
Wood heat ?

Marcos thanks for the blurb “the wires are hanging out of the wall but the base board heaters are not hooked up “ Boy can I relate.

I have been in my house for 12 years and the hand rails are not hooked up. I have to get it done one of these days.... my wife wants the occupancy permit done with and then there is the base boards and a few more cupboards to go in.

as to wood heat . I have done somethings right.
(1) got a masonary flue with a clay liner. Once that puppy gets warm the residual heat will keep the house warm for about ten hours. Of course to work right I placed it in the house in a central location and not on the outside where it works more like a heat sink and pulls the heat out of the house.

(2) The flue drafts well. Smoke in the house is dumb.

(3) upstairs the flue runs through the master bedroom. ( us old farts gotta keep warm.) This works well enough that i managed to get the same thing done in two housesthat I was consulting on.

(4) No stainless steel flues for me. they heat poorly, do not handle chimney fires well and I have seen charred wood inside the enclosures from the things getting too hot.

But I have yet to get a year ahead on the wood thing. Most of the time I get half the wood cut in June and then stack wet wood infront of the dry sometime in Oct. My cure is to get the fire so darn hot it will burn anything.

got a rag on Teckcominco coming

take care
ralfph
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